I didn’t hear of it until I went on this forum.
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I would guess that most “normal” people have not.
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I had heard of it, but I didn’t know what it was. I thought it was the same as schizotypal PD, like a less severe form of schizophrenia.
Although, I did learn about sz in highschool, so I knew about it. Like, that it wasn’t the same thing as DID, just like the basics
We did have a class presentation from the sz society, but they mostly talked about voices, not delusions or negative symptoms.
If they had, and I knew what was happening in my brain, I might have been diagnosed much earlier, but I didn’t start hearing voices until I was 24
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Yes.
And call it psychosis if you have to. Although around me there’s a lot of meth induced psychosis. So I kind of have to tip-toe around it
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I only heard that my mom has schizoaffective. I didn’t know what that meant until I did some research on my own symptoms, which lead to me being diagnosed with schizoaffective.
Half of the doctors I see know at least a little bit about schizoaffective. Half of them ask me what it is.
I never tell strangers, other than doctors, about my schizoaffective.
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I’m pretty upfront about the depression part of my schizoaffective. I think it’s socially acceptable enough now to talk about that it doesn’t bother me. I only bring up my psychosis with people I trust.
In the past, I’ve gone from telling everyone I meet to not telling anyone at all. I think I’ve found a good balance
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Most ‘normal’ people never heard of schizoaffective disorder and a lot of professionals know very little about it.
Schizoaffective disorder should not be considered one disorder.
It’s a combination of 2 disorders.
Either bipolar and psychosis or schizophrenia with depression.
IMO the schizoaffective diagnosis should be eliminated.
Such a vague disorder.
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That’s how I explain it to people too
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I usually have to explain it to people when I do bring it up. Thanks to Hollywood and the media all of us on this forum must have multiple personalities.
Oh well. The Normans could assume worse about us I suppose.
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My mom still thinks that. I’ve tried explaining it to her so many times and she just refuses to understand. Hyper frustrating
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Lol tbh I tell as many people as I can though it does sometimes hurt me. Id like to think that one day the stigma would be less. Some people just don’t get It tho many are very nice
I explain sza as scizophrenia with bipolar
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That’s how I describe it, too.
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Me too.
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I did learn about it in psychology classes.
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Actually I learned about schizophrenia in my neurology class in uni and from then on I was convinced I had it but was never diagnosed
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Death was putting thoughts into my head, and I thought people at school were reading my thoughts, and I was reading their’s.
But I technically wasn’t hearing voices, so I was told I was “fine”, and I spent a lot of time believing that these were normal experiences for people my age to have
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Wow that’s Intense. …sorry to hear about that
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I just call it “My brain thing”. Makes it easier, most people don’t know the details, nor do they normally push more questions.
“There goes Ooorgle and his brain thing”
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