Does a schizophrenic person with several personalities have several souls?

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If we have souls and we are souls in a body, and souls exist, doesn’t being schizophrenic proves that either we don’t have souls or that the schizophrenic person has several souls?
 
Schizophrenia and Disassociative Identity Disorder are two different things. Schizophrenia is how the brain is wired and can be hereditary and “multiple personalities” are not criteria for diagnosis. DID is usually thought to be caused by trauma and a way of coping that went off the rails. Since it is how a person was able to survive trauma/abuse it doesn’t have anything to do with one’s soul.
 
No.

(and your thinking of a different disorder - but before you ask - human persons all have *one *soul. No matter the disorder).
 
ANV said:
If we have souls and we are souls in a body, and souls exist, doesn’t being schizophrenic proves that either we don’t have souls or that the schizophrenic person has several souls?
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I think opposite. Our souls are blank. I have a thread on this topic in here.
 
People with schizophrenia have an illness. They do not have multiple souls. If they are not treated it may seem like this to one who observes and doesnt experience this reality. But what they really need is the medication to help their brains just as someone who has diabetes needs medicine to keep them well. We all have our own crosses to bear whether it be mental illness or physical illness. Schizophrenia is an illness of the mind that can be helped with medication. Lets have mercy upon all we know who struggle with this illness as it is often misunderstood.

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STT said:
I think opposite. Our souls are blank. I have a thread on this topic in here.
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No, you posited that our souls are blank. Many others disagree, so it’s completely inaccurate to state this as a fact, which can lead to confusion.
 
Bruised_Reed said:
Schizophrenia and Disassociative Identity Disorder are two different things. Schizophrenia is how the brain is wired and can be hereditary and “multiple personalities” are not criteria for diagnosis. DID is usually thought to be caused by trauma and a way of coping that went off the rails. Since it is how a person was able to survive trauma/abuse it doesn’t have anything to do with one’s soul.
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Exactly!
 
ANV said:
If we have souls and we are souls in a body, and souls exist, doesn’t being schizophrenic proves that either we don’t have souls or that the schizophrenic person has several souls?
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You could argue in the opposite direction: if you haven’t written your own autobiography, but you have read autobiographies of other people, then those other people live on through you, and you don’t have any identity of your own.

Nobody can deny the existence of the body. However, if your soul, psyche, and mind are merely the byproduct of such software-like things as books, then your digestive system has more autonomy than your mind.
 
Let’s assume that you actually meant DID as others have explained; even in this case, there are no separate souls. It’s a fragmentation of the mind, the personality, into these little pieces that each have a function in protecting the soul. It’s all one soul, it’s just a broken soul that needs a little mending.

In DID patients, there are not actually several separate “people” inside one body. It’s all the same person, the same soul, doing whatever it can to cope.
 
Hope_Philomena said:
Let’s assume that you actually meant DID as others have explained; even in this case, there are no separate souls. It’s a fragmentation of the mind, the personality, into these little pieces that each have a function in protecting the soul. It’s all one soul, it’s just a broken soul that needs a little mending.

In DID patients, there are not actually several separate “people” inside one body. It’s all the same person, the same soul, doing whatever it can to cope.
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Thank the Lord a lot of you know the distinction between schizophrenia and DID/MPD! 😃

I’ve worked with mental health specialists before in the past (not really my line of research, I’m more autoimmune/infectious disease), and their top complaint was the continuous distortion of their profession and the clinical situations they deal with due to pop culture/Hollywood.

Of the two, schizophrenia is greatly misunderstood. MPD/DID on the other hand seems to be the stuff that fiction writers relish.

nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml
 
ChineseCatholic said:
Thank the Lord a lot of you know the distinction between schizophrenia and DID/MPD! 😃

I’ve worked with mental health specialists before in the past (not really my line of research, I’m more autoimmune/infectious disease), and their top complaint was the continuous distortion of their profession and the clinical situations they deal with due to pop culture/Hollywood.

Of the two, schizophrenia is greatly misunderstood. MPD/DID on the other hand seems to be the stuff that fiction writers relish.

nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml
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DID is greatly misunderstood as well.I agree with you that fiction writers misrepresent this mental health issue. I have a loved one and a friend both who suffer from DID.The personality changes are very subtle and really unless one is awRe that an individual is coping with this disorder,it is really hard to pick up on,it is very nuanced.
 
ANV said:
If we have souls and we are souls in a body, and souls exist, doesn’t being schizophrenic proves that either we don’t have souls or that the schizophrenic person has several souls?
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No.
 
ANV said:
If we have souls and we are souls in a body, and souls exist, doesn’t being schizophrenic proves that either we don’t have souls or that the schizophrenic person has several souls?
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No, but a heckuva lot of moods.:rolleyes:
 
elohimrules said:
People with schizophrenia have an illness. They do not have multiple souls.
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Exactly. No one would say someone with Dissociative Identity Disorder (schizophrenia doesn’t present different personalities) has multiple brains. DID no more proves the lack of a soul or multiple souls than it proves multiple brains or lack of a brain.

While our spirit and body are united that does not mean that one or both might not be damaged in some way. If you drop a glass and it shatters, that does not mean that you now have hundreds of separate glasses, but rather that you have a glass that has been fractured. In this case, though cognition might be fragmented it does not mean that the soul splits too. It would be more akin to looking at the sun through a shattered piece of glass.
 
Schizophrenia is a biological problem. The soul is spiritual. There would be a baseline soul, anything biological that results in unchristian behavior is beyond the control of the poor victim of the disease.
 
We are not souls in a body; we are embodied souls and thinking bodies.

ICXC NIKA
 
A dialogue with a person with schizophrenia will shew that they are one individual. Please give them their dignity.
 
animalis said:
A dialogue with a person with schizophrenia will shew that they are one individual. Please give them their dignity.
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Although the term schizophrenia comes from the Greek roots for split mind, the condition is not that of multiple personality.

ICXC NIKA
 
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