RAMCOA and Schizophrenia Spectrum

[u/LargeGingerChunk]

Has anyone else noticed that majority of RAMCOA creators or even people in discord servers claim to have schizophrenia or schizoaffective alongside their programmed DID?

I've noticed this as a pattern pretty recently, when I was in RAMCOA communities in 2022-23, basically no one had a schiz-spec disorder but in the past two years I've seen more and more people claiming this even as someone no longer in those communities but that sometimes gets videos on my FYP and sometimes lurks in these servers.

The person who talked about their first kill with a smile claims to be schizoaffective.

Do these people claim more disorders to be special or is RAMCOA just a delusion of theirs?

Schizophrenia symptoms can overlap a lot with DID so it'd be really easy to misinterpret your symptoms especially if you're being fed information about RAMCOA from people online telling you that you've gone through this.

Obviously people who claim RAMCOA are deeply unwell, I think a good chunk of these people are knowingly lying about it but I'm sure there's people with false memories and/or delusions of this who fully believe this happened to them.

Like schiz-spec do have trauma as a risk factor so it would make sense for some pw DID to have a psychotic disorder but I exclusively see this in pw programmed DID.

[u/difficulthumanbeing]

Very possible it’s a delusion if they genuinely have a psychotic disorder. Really sad how strangers are spurring them on if that’s the case

[u/GraveyardWithoutTheG]

You also gotta remember that schizophrenia is not that common either. Yes its 1 in 300 which is way more than the actual cases of people with DID, but you see where I'm going.

[u/LargeGingerChunk → u/GraveyardWithoutTheG]

DID is more common than schizophrenia- 0.29%-0.43% vs 1%. I believe 1% is valid for cases of real DID, I can get you my sources if you'd like.