Can a person diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia be free of hallucinations throughout their lives? Besides, this person has a social phobia. Does not one another exclude the other?

In psychiatry, they are almost mutually exclusive, because human experiences are not a logical sequence. It is possible to have paranoid schizophrenia and not hallucinate, besides, hallucinations can be presented in many different ways, the patient may never talk about them or deny them.

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Tomasz Jaroszewski

Second degree psychiatrist

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