# I used to be schizophrenic.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2000, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-schizophrenic/28419 "2000-08-07T14:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Asmodeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Asmodeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asmodeus)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-schizophrenic/28419/1 "2000-08-07T14:24:00Z")
but were are better now. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-schizophrenic/28419/2 "2000-08-07T14:32:26Z")
_Sigh_ Maybe it’s just me, but I find this all-too-common mistake annoying. Schizophrenia is not the same as Multiple Personality Disorder (recently renamed Dissociative Identity Disorder). ---
**Author:** ![SouthernStyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-schizophrenic/28419/3 "2000-08-07T14:52:23Z")
Isn’t sharing one’s ignorance “Mundane and Pointless”? At least they picked the right forum! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-schizophrenic/28419/4 "2000-08-07T16:05:36Z")
WE are schizophrenic, but, being of the “delusions of grandeur” subtype, are entitled to the royal “we”, whereas you, my troll, are not. Don’t annoy the schizzies–you don’t know WHAT we’ll do! ---
**Author:** ![SouthernStyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-schizophrenic/28419/5 "2000-08-07T20:30:11Z")
Let’s back up a second. Why DID “Multiple Personality Disorder” get renamed to be “Disassociative Identity Disorder”? And because this is MPSIMS: 1. I’ll annoy the schizzies as often as possible – it gives me something interesting to do. 2. I’ll annoy the DID sufferers as well – they’ll only remember it half the time, at the most. 3. Hi Opal (Avoiding a 2 item list). * * * No Smilies were harmed in the creation of this post. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tracie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@Tracie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracie)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-schizophrenic/28419/6 "2000-08-07T21:26:29Z")
Schizophrenics often hear “voices” so Asmodeus’ use of “we” in his OP was fine. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-schizophrenic/28419/7 "2000-08-08T00:34:53Z")
sorry, but most schizophrenics do not consider the plurality of voices to be them. so ‘we’ does not apply. turn off herman’s head and crack open an abnormal psych textbook. MPD was renamed because it reflects a very serious misunderstanding of the disease. DID does not cause one to develop new personalities which often take over the brain. Instead, cases such as Sybil portray a symptom of one’s Personality Disassociation, a breaking away or detaching of the main personality. i think… ---
**Author:** ![Asmodeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Asmodeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asmodeus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-schizophrenic/28419/8 "2000-08-08T01:33:20Z")
We think…therefore we are. maybe ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-used-to-be-schizophrenic/28419/9 "2000-08-08T04:30:08Z")
I used to be schizophrenic. Then I realized that the voices are really angels sent to guide me to my destiny of siring ten thousand children who will be the next step of evolution. So I memorized the “normal” answers for the Minnesota Multi-Phasic test, learned to hide my pills under my tounge, and told the doctors what they wanted to hear. In six months I was out of the hospital.