Is an alter ego a form of schzophrenia [didnt spell it right]?!
Question: I'm not sure what an alter ego WOULD be, but I'm pretty sure it's NOT a form of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is not what most people seem to think it is, it is more about paranoid delusions and hallucinations, as well as other symptoms. You are most likely thinking of Multiple Personality Disorder, which is a different condition. This is more likely to be it.
Answers: I'm not sure what an alter ego WOULD be, but I'm pretty sure it's NOT a form of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is not what most people seem to think it is, it is more about paranoid delusions and hallucinations, as well as other symptoms. You are most likely thinking of Multiple Personality Disorder, which is a different condition. This is more likely to be it.
IDK. LOL. But I have a friend who basically takes on an alter ego when she has to be confrontational. She is very sweet and that seems to be the only way she can be confrontational. =) She does not have schizophrenia.
could be. have you had an evaluation? we all have egos though!
Nope.
That's not schizophrenia, but it may be another problem. Schizophrenia is not someone who has mutable or split personalty's
Not normally. It just means you hold yourself in very high esteem and you are so egoistical that most people do not like to be around someone who is that egotistical. It is okay to be proud of our accomplishments but it is better to allow our friends and family doing the bragging. If your ego is too high your self-esteem could be too low. But, I would not say it went so far as calling someone schizophrenic
Not how I see schizophrenia. I know the disease affects the person, in the way that they feel everything, and anything isall to do with them. Like if a car honks thier horn, than they would think thay they wee honking at them, and maybe were pit tp get them. Or a fly, low it moves their little hands so fast. Well a schzo, might think that the fly is decoding a message to them. I mean it can really bad when they can be harmful to themselves. If they have been treated, and take thier med's exactly te way the doctor says, then they can lead a normal life. As far as the alter ego, that's just you fighting with yourself, and the alar ego, is trying to win, even know U kown it's the wrong thing to do. If the alter eho is winning than U could havea big problem.
Not exactly.
People with Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder) have episodes where they act like a different person and supposedly have no memory of doing that.
Some people with Schizophrenia might think they are God or Jesus, but it's more like they are still the same person but with an "expanded consciousness"--"I'm Bill, but I just learned today that I was chosen by God to be the new Jesus." I never saw people with Schizophrenia act like they are different people, though. I remember a woman who signed a consent form "Cleopatra Jehovah God" but she didn't go around pretending like she was "Cleopatra."
Some people get Schizophrenia confused with Multiple Personality Disorder; the confusion has been reinforced by movies and pop culture. I have read newspaper articles where it says things like "he was a schizophrenic who had three different personalities", but it isn't really like that.