LOL I’ve given up at this point. My pdoc says he’s not 100% sure but I may just have bipolar with narcolepsy, not schizoaffective at all. He thinks the psychosis is a product of the two. In his exact words it’s “just a big ass mess” 
Accurately sums up my life
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Well, keep on being honest with your doctors. You sound like you’re on the right track at last. Fingers crossed.
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When i asked my doctor what is actually wrong with me she made such a deep sigh that i almost regret the question.
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That sounds like you have a better prognosis.
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Don’t know what you have but one of my doctors says I’m not schizophrenic. He asked me if my energy was bad and I said no. He probably thinks I’m too high functioning. But at one point I did have negative symptoms. I know it is schizophrenia. Be careful. For me, my negative symptoms are slowly disappearing and some people don’t take me seriously anymore.,…
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one wonders if high functioning people even need a diagnosis. on account of not always needing meds. thats what the dx is for, to decide which treatment be it meds or therapy
btw psychiatric diagnoses overlap a lot, just say im my unique self and move on. certainly in the future there will be a better understanding, right now these diagnoses are sort of arbitrary,
i mean most ppl complian to the pdoc at the most an hour a month. thats.not enough time to accurately diagnose anything
mental illness in general isa good label.
dealing with specific symptoms is a good approach, not lumping them together into disorders which we all know can be treated by the same handful of undependably effective meds.
sleep issues throw an antipsychotic at it, mood symptoms throw such and such drug at it. its all trial and error. and then when the meds youve chosen produce side effects treat those with more meds.
its like a revolving door you cant get out of (psychiatric treatment) unless youre sufficiently high functioning
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In my case even though I would have been considered high functioning I was suffering a great deal. And my functioning when I wasn’t doing well wasn’t that great, I’d fail classes, my living space would be a mess, wouldn’t take care of myself, etc. So I needed a diagnosis because without a diagnosis insurance companies won’t give you meds.
I have to be on some sort of mood med all the time because my mood is out of control and makes me a danger to myself.
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i would say… some people are just “messy” in that their brain chemistry doesnt want to stop acting up. we aren’t all school shooters or social recluses or whatever, but many such people struggle with mental illness. i would say, if you ever feel like youre a danger to anyone (lord knows we all have) including yourself, then that is criteria enough for you to deserve treatment. but i maintain that current psychiatric diagnosis is not well developed enough to where labels exist for everything. a top down approach where we acknowledge the symptoms without pretending to understand where the roots lie seems like a good idea to me.
so you are a person who has experienced hallucinations, anxiety, sleep issues and so on. not BIPOLAR TYPE #necessarily. or whichever other broad label they want to throw at you.
dont stress over the label, dont fall into the delusion that everything a psychiatrist decides to put in your body will be an automatic miracle cure. also be aware of the reality of side effects which can at times be permanent or quite unbearable.
who knows, maybe the right drug for you hasn’t been invented yet. its not too far fetched considering how limited the psychiatric toolkit currently is.
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I agree I never really cared much about diagnosis because I knew I didn’t perfectly fit into any one category. At this point it just amuses me.
And I fell out of that delusion a long time ago. Thankfully though the meds I’m on now work wonderfully.
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If I might ask, what did your doctor say is wrong? @Sarad
Treat the symptoms not the labels…
Hallucinations… not delusional regarding the world… but potentially subdued to belief in the presence of hallucinations…
Perhaps they really do see you as a normal acting human with some internal differences… but they don’t control you… so you don’t deserve the psychotic or prone to unrealism type labels.
I don’t think there is a proper tailored diagnosis for any of us aside from the diagnosis of us just being us.
Treat the symptoms and not the label.
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My diagnosis was bipolar 12 years ago from a general practitioner (suspected). Then schizoaffective. Then bipolar. Then schizophrenia. Then bipolar. Then schizophrenia. Then bipolar. Now schizophrenia.
To be honest. I think it’s schizoaffective. oh and avoidant has even been thrown in the mix over the years too. I didn’t know what that was. I looked it up. I can relate to that. But for different reason. Just the sz to be honest. It makes me avoid.
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@Anna, if the meds your pdoc has you on now work “wonderfully”, that probably means that the pdoc has the right diagnosis for you now. Which is great news!
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