My current psychiatrist had to formally update my diagnosis for my Case Manager’s records and she diagnosed me with Schizoaffective disorder Mixed Type.
And here I thought that I had SZA bipolar type all along.
Schizoaffective Mixed type patients experience psychosis outside of a mood episode often.
It’s closer to Schizophrenia than bipolar.
She also diagnosed me with OCD
Go figure….
Do you trust your current diagnose?
Yes I do @Airparticle
It makes a whole lot of sense for me
Forgive me if I am wrong, but mixed type is like mixed episodes which occur in bipolar as well…
Yes, I also think that mixed episodes are commonly seen with SZA Mixed type as well but I’m not sure. @anon25873142
Which also describes my symptoms
Mixed features refers to the presence of high and low symptoms occurring at the same time, or as part of a single episode, in people experiencing an episode of mania or depression. In most forms of bipolar disorder, moods alternate between elevated and depressed over time. A person with mixed features experiences symptoms of both mood “poles” – mania and depression – simultaneously or in rapid sequence.
So yeah you may have schizoaffective but I thought mixed episodes were still part of bipolar side of things.
Source : webmd just incase you needed to know.
Mixed episodes can be seen with bipolar disorder and/or SZA disorder
Yeah my psychiatrist also suggested mixed type at some point. we are so similar …
Ummm. So I’m confused. I thought there were three types of schizoeffective disorders. Schizoeffective bipolar, schizoeffective mania and schizoeffective depressive. I thought schizoeffective mixed type was the same thing as schizoeffective bipolar, as you experience both mania and depression and hallucinations aside from the bipolar. I don’t understand the difference between SZA bipolar and SZA mixed types. Please explain.
SZA bipolar type and SZA mixed type are very similar but with mixed type, psychosis is commonly seen outside of a mood episode, more frequently than seen with SZA bipolar type.
This site refers to SZA bipolar and mixed type as the same thing.
Yes there are minor differences but extremely similar @anon55031185
I think you are in error. They are the same, they just have two names. SZA bipolar also means that you have psychosis outside of mania and depression.
My doctor doesn’t differentiate between the two actually
No they have different diagnostic codes
There are differences @anon55031185
Well I did a lot of research about it. It’s very confusing to me the differences between SZA bipolar and SZA mixed type. Everything I’m reading says they are the same. I’m just curious because I have been diagnosed with SZA bipolar and sometimes SZA mixed type depending on the doctor.
Yeah I admit it’s very confusing to me also
I think I figured it out. The bipolar type experiences mania and schizophrenia while the mixed type includes mania, depression and schizophrenia. How is it bipolar if you only experience mania. That’s pretty confusing, really. I thought bipolar included swinging from mania to depression. I got this from Wikipedia. But it doesn’t make sense.
