I've noticed a whole lot of people confuse schizophrenia with multiple personality disorder. Two completely different conditions. Why?

I just wonder how it happened. It's very common for people to associate schizophrenia with MPD, and there really isn't much similarity at all between the two conditions.
Hollywood?

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I think it is a common mistake.
Most mental illness is hard to understand and the criteria seems to be constantly changing so it gets confusing at times.

I was told that higher functioning autistic individuals are sometimes misdiagnosed with a mental illness.