Yeah not too many people know this but there are a lot of similarities and overlapping symptoms between bipolar and schizophrenia.
Sometimes things get blurry when it comes to diagnosing.
Schizoaffective describes my symptoms to the tee.
Yeah not too many people know this but there are a lot of similarities and overlapping symptoms between bipolar and schizophrenia.
Sometimes things get blurry when it comes to diagnosing.
Schizoaffective describes my symptoms to the tee.
Diagnostic inconsistency is all too common . Even my current pdoc ,who’s thoroughly decent, has been prone to it.
2018 -1st appointment - schizophrenia and ASD fit best
2019- Changed from schizophrenia to schizoaffective based on further exploration that indicated I’d had low and high moods,while concurrently experiencing psychotic symptoms.
2020- ‘In the context of a diagnosis of Autistic spectrum disorder, now having been made and the depressive symptoms being mild when they occurred in the past,I’m changing the diagnosis back to schizophrenia.’
i’m glad to hear you got your dx now as you think it should be.
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