Harvard: Marijuana Doesn’t Cause Schizophrenia

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3. You are thinking of multiple personality disorder, which has been

shown to not even exist.

Please read up on schizophrenia before you go making light of it. It ruined my mom's life and changed my family forever.

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http://www.nami.org/factsheets/schizophrenia_factsheet.pdf

Positive symptoms are also known as “psychotic” symptoms because the person has lost touch with reality in certain ways.
• Delusions or the belief in things not real or true.
• Hallucinations are hearing or seeing things that are not real.
• Disorganized speech expressed as an inability to generate a logical sequence of ideas.

Negative symptoms refer to a reduction of a capacity, such as motivation.
• Emotional flatness or lack of expressiveness.
• Inability to start and follow through with activities.
• Lack of pleasure or interest in life.

Cognitive symptoms pertain to thinking processes.
• Trouble with prioritizing tasks, memory and organizing thoughts.
• Anosognosia or “lack of insight” being unaware of having an illness.

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Nothing whatsoever in there about multiple personalities.