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05-03-2006, 01:04 PM
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If the condition the guy in this song has is induced by drugs (and that is very likely the case) than it probably wouldn't be readily diagnosed as schizophrenia. DSM-IV (current psychiatric manual) has several symptoms that should be taken into account when diagnosing schizophrenia. Lack of thinking coherence is just one of them, and not enough to make schizophrenia diagnosed. The symptoms must persist for a longer time to (several months), and have to include several aspects of psychosocial functioning to be considered. If drugs are the reason for this guy to behave like this, the specialist will obviously wait for the drug effect to pass before making any serious judgment about the condition. Also, today mainstream psychiatry categorizes several types of schizophrenia. If person is diagnosed with paranoid type he will not suffer from illussions of grandeur or vice versa (it may be theoretical possible to suffer from both, but that would be statistical rarity par exellance). Panic attacks are another class of psychological disturbances and are not heavily connected to schizophrenia, but go hand in hand with anxiety problems. Just on glance I don't think this guy has a schizophrenia, although behavior and thinking from people on psychedelics resembles in some aspect the thinking and behavior seen in schizophrenic patients. When LSD was still legal and used somewhat in medicine (contoversial!) it was famous among psychiatrists for its abilities to 'mimic' some forms of psychosis, and was used in research projects dealing with better understanding of schizophrenia too.
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Re: Schizophrenia?

If the condition the guy in this song has is induced by drugs (and that is very likely the case) than it probably wouldn't be readily diagnosed as schizophrenia. DSM-IV (current psychiatric manual) has several symptoms that should be taken into account when diagnosing schizophrenia. Lack of thinking coherence is just one of them, and not enough to make schizophrenia diagnosed. The symptoms must persist for a longer time to (several months), and have to include several aspects of psychosocial functioning to be considered. If drugs are the reason for this guy to behave like this, the specialist will obviously wait for the drug effect to pass before making any serious judgment about the condition. Also, today mainstream psychiatry categorizes several types of schizophrenia. If person is diagnosed with paranoid type he will not suffer from illussions of grandeur or vice versa (it may be theoretical possible to suffer from both, but that would be statistical rarity par exellance). Panic attacks are another class of psychological disturbances and are not heavily connected to schizophrenia, but go hand in hand with anxiety problems. Just on glance I don't think this guy has a schizophrenia, although behavior and thinking from people on psychedelics resembles in some aspect the thinking and behavior seen in schizophrenic patients. When LSD was still legal and used somewhat in medicine (contoversial!) it was famous among psychiatrists for its abilities to 'mimic' some forms of psychosis, and was used in research projects dealing with better understanding of schizophrenia too.
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