Manson as quoted in the article: "I can understand the alter ego aspect [Charles Dodgson created by using the pen name Lewis Carroll]: something happens in your life to create a schism, and because you can't live out certain fantasies or ideas in one world, you become someone else," says Manson, sighing. "It's all pretty crazy, and I'm sure it's making me schizophrenic."

• Real Psychology: Schizophrenia is arguably the most misunderstood psychological diagnosis, since it's so often confused with dissociative identity disorder (DID—the old name was Multiple Personality Disorder).

Schizophrenia is a genetic problem that is caused, at least in part, by problems in brain chemistry. Symptoms can include hallucinations, delusions, odd speech, strange behavior or catatonia, and negative symptoms, which often look like severe depression. The problems have to last at least a month, and they have to cause problems in the person's life.

So why are DID and schizophrenia so often confused? Well, Eugene Bleuler coined the term in 1908 to refer to the split between thought processes and perception, and the term is actually derived from the Greek words 'schizo' (split) and 'phren' (mind). According to Berrios and Porter's A History of Clinical Psychiatry: The Origin and History of Psychiatric Disorders, TS Eliot was the first to misuse the term to refer to a condition more akin to DID.

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