Many people in America often confuse the disorders schizophrenia with dissociative personality disorder. In this brief essay please discuss why people may confuse the two disorders and how these disorders are different. Be sure to include symptoms of each disorder in your response. ( for psychology)

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Explanation:

Many people in America often confuse schizophrenia with dissociative personality disorder partly due to the limited resources available to each and people's lack of knowledge.

Schizophrenia is the more well-known disorder of the two and is widely misunderstood. Schizophrenic people may experience delusions, hallucinations, and negative symptoms. An area where people confuse this disorder is behavior and aggression. People believe that schizophrenic people are more likely to lash out and show aggressive behavior and tendencies, when they aren't any more dangerous than an average person. People with schizophrenia are more likely to have difficultly completing daily tasks, due to memory problems and slower processing paces.

People with dissociative personality, or identity disorder usually experience gaps in their memory, as they alternate between two distinctly different personality states.

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