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Do i need to hear voices to have schizophrenia?

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Dr. Alan Ali answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Schizophrenia: Not necessarily. Person can experience odd behaviors & delusions without hearing voices, as in paranoid schizophrenia.

Dr Altman and another doctor agreed

Answered 8/25/2013

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