Dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia both contain a split in the mind, but in a different context. Schizophrenia manifests itself as a broken connection between the mind and the external world, in terms of staying in touch with reality. During a psychotic experience, the schizophrenic has extreme alternations in cognition and feelings. Dissociative identity disorder consists of a severe distance forming between two or more personalities, that differ in behavior, world views, and comprehension of the self. Dissociative identity disorder usually develops in response to trauma, sexual abuse or mental and emotional abuse and neglect. Fragmented personality traits are constructed as a way of protecting the mind from overwhelming emotional trauma. The various personalities develop their own sense of self, the past, and frequently express memory loss when one personality overrides another temporarily. The sufferer of this disorder doesn’t remember what the other personality experienced or learned. Schizophrenia is a a very severe brain disease in which the individual goes through prolonged bouts of a loss of reality, in the form of delusions, visual and auditory hallucinations or seeing and hearing things that originate in the brain without external stimuli present. The individual does not break apart …show more content…
Antipsychotic medications help regulate the neurotransmitter known as dopamine in the brain, which is responsible for the symptoms experienced by schizophrenics. The physician in charge attempts to find the optimal lowest dose for managing psychotic symptoms. If the individual is also experiencing anxiety and depression, then medications targeting these disorders are also prescribed. Side effects from medications can be a deterrent to a patient’s willingness to abide by dosage requirements. In this case, injections may replace