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Originally Posted by oddballmisfitsFTW
schizo?
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In another topic I was explaining how JJ is just about a clone of a friend of mine.
This friend had a brother who was diagnosed with full-on schizophrenia but he was not.
Instead he was diagnosed with something called 'schizo-affective disorder' which is (basically) something like 'Schizophrenia Junior'.
Honestly, I am not convinced this is nearly as much a 'hard science' as we want to believe but something like a 'schizophrenia' does seem to be the best way to describe it.
BB9 Dale had something like this going on too.
No doubt about it - JJ would easily qualify for SOME kind of mental disorder but all that really means is that his problems become enough to impede his daily activities.
So far.. he is not getting arrested, unable to care for himself, losing jobs etc so he can get by,
but,
you just know that guy can eat a handful of 'Ritalin' and would be handed some SSRI's in a doctors heartbeat tomorrow.
Proper Schizophrenia - no, he doesn't have that. He does share a lot of things with someone with 'schizo-affective disorder' (as that was explained to me),
That one is actually 'hopeful' because it does sound like a lot of people can actually improve and manage it and even get to a point where its as good as gone (for any practical purposes at least).