Running Head: MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS Mental Health Disorders Student Name Institute Name 1 MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS 2 1. Describe schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder and explains their differences? Schizophrenia is a serious and chronic illness or mental disorder which interfere with a person’s ability to think, feel, manage emotions, and to make decisions. Schizophrenia disorder is considered an abnormal social behavior and it make it difficult for a person to fully express their emotions in social situations and he or she cannot assess what is real and what is going artificial. According to different perceptions of the public, Schizophrenia is not a dual or multiple personalities of a person but it is a change in the personality of the person. People with Schizophrenia disorder are not violent and do not harm any person. Schizophrenia is not caused by the poor parenting or the childhood experiencing and this not same in every person. Individuals suffering from Schizophrenia may experience symptoms like delusions, hallucinations, and confused thinking and talking. It is a long-term medical illness which affects almost 1% of the Americans. There is no specific age for this disorder but it mostly occurs in men in the early 20s or in women in late 20s-early 30s [(MHA, n.d)]. Dissociative Identity Disorder or multiple personality disorder is said to be a condition when a person has two or more identities and these identities alternately control over an indiv ...
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