they say half of schizos have an anxiety disorder too. i wonder how often their anxiety is better classified as its own disorder, or as an underlying symptom of the psychosis disorder.
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Maybe both? It is separate from the sz but it is more prominent due to the sz. Meaning someone who is at a low risk for developing anxiety develops sz (mind you this is theoretical) since they have sz they are now at a higher risk of developing anxiety. Dont know if it’s a sound theory but to me it seems possible.
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I have no anxiety unless I smoke weed, or am in the bad part of a psychosis. Then it can get so intense (the anxiety) that I don’t have words for it…
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APs are major tranquilizers
Abilify isnt it’s like I take a pill with air every morning
Hi. Yes it is a possible symptom talk to your doctor about anxiety medications
Its not a perfect science. If you are told you have one thing doesnt mean you dont have more of another. It also doesnt mean that 2nd doctors wont diagnos you different or not at all.
I used to have horrible anxiety but I have zero anxiety now and I’m schioaffective bipolar it went away
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I have horrible anxiety. I totally relate. But I also have PTSD so I’m not sure if it’s sz or not. I’m still not convinced I have sz. But I know I need APs
i think my psychosis gave me anxiety more than having anxiety gave me psychosis
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i have social anxiety…i see it as seperate to sz
My former pdoc, who was a genius in his field, and who is now retired, told me that anxiety is a given part of sz/sza.
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I am anxious frequently.
I could have schizoaffective but anxiety is also common with bipolar.
Among other issues I suffer with Agoraphobia and OCD.
Earlier on I suffered with panic disorder.
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When I am full blown psychotic my anxiety is extremely intense.
No benzo can help me.
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I agree with this entirely… Psychosis is a major ■■■■■■when it comes to description.
I’d give credit to schizophrenics for their “Willfullness of mind.” Prepsychosis it seems a trend that they won’t run from anything in thought… but have a higher propensity for social/irrational fears. I’m only speaking from my own observations…
it’s that kind of person… or that overlapping major drug addictions. Normally the psyhcotic individual is more excentric and fragile and grandiose in their expectations even in prodromal phases.
all the same the occurrence of full blown psychosis is something only known to a small fragment of the overall population group. It’s distribution is indiscriminate in relation to standard measures…
It’s neurological though… might have a lot to do with neurochemistry first… but once the illness sets in it is a physical illness. It rewrites pathways of operation in the psyche, both conscious and subconscious.
From there you have the yarn ball of what it is to live with psychosis after the first psychotic break… the psychotic break ranging a wide timeframe in onset… but basically the congitive capacity of the mind doubles in on itself like a failed metamorphosis. and then there you have it…
the real unfair thing is that medical scientists don’t want to acknowledge the illness is legitimate at all… because certifying it’s complexity is like stripping them of their badges and credibiltiy… cause they don’t understand it.
There are medical researches in academia who aren’t afraid to let it be what it is… and there are some non-profits/devote medical centers that approach the problem with genuine scientific and well intended intrigue…
but the overall masses of the medical industry has already spread their limited sympathies thin with more obvious, apparent, detrimental physical diseases… cancer, muscular dystrophy… diabetes… even Alzheimers…
We are fringe… one way or another… and we are low priority…
but from my own experience… We bare the heaviest of mental weights imaginable… it’s like the sense of losing an “arms worth of mind” at all times…
that phrase doesn’t make sense, nor will it stick… but what would you rather lose? Your arm, or your mind?
(edit: let alone the apexual cataclysm of total distrusted amplified to the greatest of all extremes instantaneously but a hallucinatory imagination)
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