Hi, I was a member of this forum until 2015. I started to get better, so I moved away from posting.
While I’ve been a lot better, I have been struggling with my symptoms this year. My psychiatrists, who are a husband and wife team, have been incredible at helping me regain control.
However, medication isn’t enough for me. I’ve been in therapy for the last 5 years. But my therapist moved out of state, and I was forced to find a new therapist fairly quickly.
And my new therapist has me really distressed.
She told me she doesn’t think I have schizoaffective disorder, because she’s never seen me psychotic. I’ve only seen her 4 times.
I know that diagnoses change, but I can’t help but feel as if she doesn’t believe me when I tell her about my psychosis symptoms.
I saw my psychiatrists the next day and they told me: “You definitely do have schizoaffective disorder,” and “You should find a new therapist.”
I had a therapist tell me that my psychosis was a result of child abuse and that I just needed therapy and to go off meds. I promptly found a different therapist who politely confirmed that I am indeed a nutter and I need my meds.
I once saw a neurologist for brain lesions. As soon as I introduced myself and my husband to him, he told me I don’t have schizophrenia and instead I have OCD.
This guy knew nothing about me at all. I think people assume if you’re able to speak normally at all, you don’t have schizophrenia. They’re wrong.
It was very irresponsible of him to do that because I genuinely struggle with my diagnosis
@Wave Thanks! It was very destabilizing for me. I felt like I wanted to pretend I wasn’t ill for so long. But now that I need treatment, it wasn’t being given.
I have this personality trait that if someone doesn’t trust me, I have trouble trusting them.
My new psychiatrist wants to change my treatment and put me on injections of an anti-psychotic drug. This happened about fifteen minutes into the first meeting (via phone video call). Something about that doesn’t sit well with me. Also, I don’t want injections, but I’m not sure if I’m just being a fraidy cat.
A therapist can’t diagnose after four session. Or undiagnosed. My therapist said he’s met many people with sza that have long periods of remission/no symptoms.
@FlyingSwan I don’t like major changes like that happening within a short period after seeing someone new. Although I have heard good things about injectables.