Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-98.246.4.110-20150723045511/@comment-26509016-20150727100558

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I never said that a split personality is a symptome of shizophrenia, neither did I say that DID and shizophrenia are the same thing.

"Schizophrenia is often described in terms of positive and negative (or deficit) symptoms.Positive symptoms are those that most individuals do not normally experience but are present in people with schizophrenia. They can include delusions, disordered thoughts and speech, and tactile, auditory, visual, olfactory and gustatory hallucinations, typically regarded as manifestations of psichosis. Hallucinations are also typically related to the content of the delusional theme. Positive symptoms generally respond well to medication.

Negative symptoms are deficits of normal emotional responses or of other thought processes, and are less responsive to medication. They commonly include flat expressions or little emotion, poverty of speech, inability to experience pleasure, lack of desire to form relationships, and lack of motivation. Negative symptoms appear to contribute more to poor quality of life, functional ability, and the burden on others than do positive symptoms. People with greater negative symptoms often have a history of poor adjustment before the onset of illness, and response to medication is often limited."

Delusions and disordered thoughts and speech? Both Kaneki and Haise had that often enough. Both of them also had many, many cases of visual and and auditory hallucinations. Kaneki, after being tortured, also expressed little to no emotion, displayed a huge inability to experience pleasure (even when with Hinami, it pretty much seemed to be fake to make her feel better), and taking a look at the situations where he acted as if he's all happy (such as when he was with Hinami or when he wanted to investigate on the nurse which assisted Kanou), the current Haise is faking his happiness very, very often too. Gets supported by his chin-rubbing when he said that he lives a happy life right now, as well as his chin-rubbing which he overall often does in situations where he seems to be happy, and Hide already mentioned that Kaneki was a very good actor. These are the main points, though there are also other symptoms that both Kaneki and Haise have shown.

This is the first reason why I've used the term "shizophrenia". the second reason is simply that shizophrenia can cause you to have a split personality, and most people instantly think of split personalities once shizophrenia is mentioned, so it simply suited my example perfectly. Combined with all the other symptoms that our dear main character has shown yet, I hope I made my point clear.