14/08/2020 Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders

I am trying to understand how mental disorders are classified, and what are the criteria that will make one patient have a diagnosis rather than another.

There is still a lot of things that I do not understand given that certain symptoms can be present in several completely different diagnoses ...

For schizophrenia, here is what the DSM V says (the following texts are taken from the DSM V):

The testimony of a schizophrenic person:

Another testimony:

https://dai.ly/x7kvsk3

A film was made by a schizophrenic person, here is the poster:

Link to the film : https://www.outside-thebox.ch/loulou/