Re:Any experience with subjects suffering from schizophrenia and childhood abuse

I almost mentioned the possibility of misdiagnosis but wasn't sure it had any place in this forum. But, yes, I'd expect there is a misdiagnosis operating, at least in the case I mention.

The interesting part to me is that the EMDR worked, even with a misdiagnosis.

As a note of curiousity... when the movie "A Beautiful Mind" was released, one of the national weekly magazines has a cover aritcle on it and schizophrenia. They profiled three "schizophrenics". From the information given in the article (voices heard inside the head, etc) it seemed likely that two of the three individuals were, in fact, DID.

I have said to several therapists, who thoroughly believe in dissociative disorders, that all I'd have to do to get a diagnosis of schizophrenia vs DID would be to go into an ER, tell them I'm hearing voices, suicidal, losing weight, and can't eat because I don't have a mouth. (I have parts that firmly believe each of those statements. Fortunately, my functioning self stays out of ER's and teaches Sunday School.)

Every therapist I've mentioned this irony to has done a double take, considered what I said, and then agreed with me.

Diagnosis, like the rest of the work with dissociatives, can be "thorny". :)

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