I have been dxd with autism and psychosis NOS, anyone else like me in that regard?
I had psychosis NOS for a while. When my symptoms persisted, I got switched over to SZ.
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I also had psychosis NOS in the beginning
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I had psychosis NOS for over a year before stopping my meds and having psychosis again. After that they changed it to SZ.
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Can i ask what the difference is between psychosis NOS and Sz? Because the doctor is telling me i have psychosis NOS.
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They’re basically the same, they change your diagnosis to sz if you relapse after quitting your meds.
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I have schizoaffective disorder bipolar type. I really don’t know what the difference is.
I have psychosis NOS or Non organic type.
Not sz.
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But I’ve only had this condition. For 4 years so yea it may still develop into sz or not.
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I had this diagnosis at the begining, but when I was hospitalized I was finally diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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No. Psychosis NOS is what a lot of people originally get diagnosed with. It means you don’t currently meet the diagnostic criteria for an other, more common disorder. In the case of schizophrenia, the symptoms must persist for a minimum of six months. So for a lot of schizophrenics, when they first get sick they are diagnosed with psychosis NOS. Then, six months later, if they still struggle, they are reclassified into schizophrenia. If they develop a mood component, they are reclassified into bipolar or schizoaffective or psychotic depression, etc.
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They’re the same. I didn’t struggle with meds so how come I have sz?
My psychosis diagnosis was changed to sz bcz I quit meds with the help of my pdr and then relapsed after a few months. If I stayed on meds my diagnosis would still be psychosis NOS now. So they’re the same.
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They aren’t the same. Psychosis NOS is generally thought of as a placeholder diagnosis until someone has been observed long enough to fit into another category. People with psychosis NOS don’t always go on to develop SZ if they relapse. They might end up with any number of psychotic disorders. They might stay NOS if no other category ever seems to quite fit them. I’m just referring to the DSM definitions. NOS just means Not Otherwise Specified. Psychosis that doesn’t clearly fit into another diagnosis ends up there.
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What if they only relapse after quitting meds? Then its called sz? What if they never quit meds and never relapse while on meds? What will be their diagnosis?
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It varies by person. For some, it stays psychosis NOS. For some, they get moved to Psychotic Depression, bipolar, borderline personality disorder, sleep apnea, OCD with intrusive thoughts, PTSD, schizoaffective, or schizophrenia. All psychosis NOS means is that the person definitely had a psychotic episode, but they don’t yet fit cleanly into another category.
Think of it like naming types of cars. You can recognize a Ford, a Lambroghini, a Hyundai, a Kia, etc. But suppose a car drives by too fast for you to get a good look at it. If someone asks you what type of car it was, you you don’t know. You know it was definitely a car, so you might say “I don’t know what kind of car that is.” That is psychosis NOS. “Hm, this is definitely a psychosis, but we don’t know what kind.”
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Some psychosis NOS ppl on this forum had this diagnosis for years. If they quit their meds and relapse it will be sz?
Some people never fit cleanly into one specific box. I carried the NOS diagnosis the entire time I had my first pdoc, because he said due to my brain tumor I didn’t fit into any other category. My new pdoc disagreed.
Relapse does not always mean SZ. Sometimes it means borderline, or PTSD, or drug-induced psychosis, or a number of other possibilities. Schizophrenia is rare, as far as psychotic disorders go.
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When I asked my pdr to stop my meds he said if I relapse my diagnosis will be changed to sz.
That was true for YOU. Not for everyone. You, specifically, in your own case, met the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia after relapsing.
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