as far as your schizophrenia symptoms go, hallucinations and delusions and negatives, do you consider yourself
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for those of us with schizoaffective disorder, do you consider your mood disorder
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For those with schizoaffective disorder are the schizophrenia and the mood components separate or do they play off each other?
I think I’m a normie who’s been manipulated by the system.
That’s why I got out on meds
I think I should have separated the negatives from the positives in this poll. Because I feel my positives are mild but my negatives are moderate to severe even sometimes. Oh well, everybody probably feels the same way too.
My sz and mood symptoms seem to be separate because for years I had mostly mood and sz symptoms. And for years, I had mostly sz symptoms and hardly any mood symptoms. Now, I have very mild sz symptoms and no mood symptoms.
Yeah, I was just thinking that thankfully they don’t always come at the same time. It would be so overwhelming to always have to deal with both at the same time.
I didn’t know how to answer this poll because although my delusions, hallucinations and paranoia these days are mild, my negatives are rather moderate. My mood symptoms are very mild thanks to twice a day, every day breathing meditation and daily yoga.
Mild schizophrenia. I see others on the street (not homeless) which talk alone loud, they laugh alone and so on. I think they are doing worse than me. I am on meds and i’m ok i think
great perspective
I voted by accident
Mild except for socially which is quite severe.
I voted before reading thoroughly. I think my negatives and positives are mild to moderate because without meds I hallucinate constantly but I would say mild to moderate because on a full dose of meds the positives dissapear. My mood disorder of depression my psychologist thinks is more disabling for me than schizophrenia cuz meds don’t make it go away
I didn’t vote. No diagnosis now except PTSD + brief reactive psychosis or so. I think I’d consider myself moderate PTSD or mild sz/sza or both or something different yet. No clue really, though, and neither do the psychiatrists.
And mild not because my delusions are mild… they aren’t. But because the severest delusions were relatively short-lasting and episodic, controlled by minimal doses of meds and negatives are mild enough for me to appear normal and coherent to the outside world. As long as they don’t stop by my house unexpectedly. 
Hm. On second account. Maybe mild-seeming to outsiders, but moderate in reality. I really don’t know. I’m just real good at keeping up appearances. :-/
My delusions are severe but risperidone helps.
My mood symptoms are severe but Depakote helps as well.
I would say severe and constantly deteriorating. Positive, negative, cognitive symptoms.
Sorry to hear that. 
Werent you thinking about trying clozapine?
I didn’t discuss it with my pdoc yet.
I give some time to this 3 antipsychotics combo and then I will mention clozapine to my doc. Are you stable, Marian?
Hm. Hope the 3 med thing will work out. Or otherwise the Clozapine. Good luck.
I don’t really know…it’s complicated. I’m kind-of-stable, but when I really look at my life indepth, I’m not really sure if I can even remember real stability and normalcy…
Often I have a fleeting bad mood, a fleeting bout of anxiety or a fleeting magical thought. I also suck at things like household, administration, cooking. But I got so used to that, it seems normal and stable to me.
Sometimes I forget meds and get anxious or a bit delusional the next day, like yesterday.
About three-four times last 1.5 years I had a real bad week or few weeks, when something woke up the traumatic memories I have and I got very fearful and delusional. I raise meds then for a week or 2. Right now I religiously avoid everything sexual, which helps, and I assert boundaries better.
So uhm… sort of stable? Stable enough to be happy 75% of the time?
Everyone is crazy in this world, they just have different names
Sounds pretty good to me. Be grateful. 
Thanks. I am grateful. Two years ago the psychiatrists thought I’d never get better and I’d probably be dead in a few weeks, months at most. I kind of agreed.
So… don’t give up… things might change unexpectedly.