Nowadays there are a few medical trends that I feel are relevant to this post. Firstly, schizophrenia is less commonly referred to as an illness, and more using the more neutral term “disorder” or even straight up “syndrome”, since an illness must have a single mechanism (known or unknown) explaining it, and we have no proof that all or even most of the cases of schizophrenia correspond to a single entity; might even say the opposite. Also, the different subtypes of schizophrenia are falling out of use, now it’s becoming more common to treat schizophrenia as a multidimensional spectrum spanning various degrees of paranoia, hallucinations, mood disorder and cognitive disorder.
Nowadays there are a few medical trends that I feel are relevant to this post. Firstly, schizophrenia is less commonly referred to as an illness, and more using the more neutral term “disorder” or even straight up “syndrome”, since an illness must have a single mechanism (known or unknown) explaining it, and we have no proof that all or even most of the cases of schizophrenia correspond to a single entity; might even say the opposite. Also, the different subtypes of schizophrenia are falling out of use, now it’s becoming more common to treat schizophrenia as a multidimensional spectrum spanning various degrees of paranoia, hallucinations, mood disorder and cognitive disorder.