Do you think you were schizoaffective or schizo since birth

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I feel I was bipolar since birth and now schizoaffective

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I got bipolar diagnosis at 15 and developed hallucinations/paranoia at 30 and they changed the diagnosis to schizoaffective. I definitely didn’t have sza from birth, my bipolar was well managed and I was pulling straight As in college with a 15 credit schedule in my twenties.

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I know I was I’ve always seen and heard things and had strange beliefs.

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My current diagnosis is bipolar disorder but schizoaffective was my previous diagnosis.

I don’t think my current psychiatrist is really certain.

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My psychiatrist send me to took brain scan and said I’m Schizo since birth
At first it’s just Major depression then Bipolar I and then schizoaffective
still I don’t trust him much
I want to move to another country just for better mental health service
but I don’t have moeny lol

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I’ve heard voices since I was 5, so I’ve probably always had it.

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I was depressed since six.Went to child psychologist at that time.

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I had an epiphany not too long ago and have come to the conclusion that I was born with SZA

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I’ve certainly always had some sort of mental issue, but i’ve managed to live with it. The schizophrenia didn’t really start until i was about 27 or so years old.

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From what I know I had Asperger’s from a very early age,but it took many decades for anyone to diagnose it. I may also have had mental illness traits. However overt signs of mental illness didn’t kick in till my early teens.

Like others I’ve been on the diagnostic roundabout. 1975-1983/1988 schizophrenia , 1983/1988-2005 schizoaffective mixed type/occasionally bipolar disorder, 2005-2018 personality disorder nos which changed to paranoid pd at some point, Oct 2018 most likely ASD and schizophrenia. I mentioned no/very few mood symptoms at my last appt , hence why sz rather than sz-a. The trouble being the Consta I was on has mood stabilising properties , which could account for the lack of major mood symptoms. Obviously I was seen to have had them enough in the past to get a schizoaffective mixed/bipolar disorder dx.

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Ä° always a shy friendless child with lot of delusions about outside world. But my symptoms start at 22 ages.

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I was a very sensitive child due to my complicated and traumatic birth. But I don’t think I was schizo since birth

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My Mother was concerned about me as a baby because I didn’t match up to my twin who was both physically and intellectually superior and looked into many programs for children trying to figure out what was “wrong”. I wore orthopedic shoes early on and had bad handwriting throughout school. I seemed to do OK in grade school otherwise if you took my twin’s shadow away until my parent’s divorce. My vocabulary started out well but declined over time.

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I was a scared little boy and had anxiety, my mind was busy with thoughts, i dont know if i had sz since being a small kid.

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When i would had sz symptoms as a kid the doctors would have known. I developed it in my teenage years.

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I was always a strange child, showed signs of depression and anxiety very young. Started hearing voices and sounds around 12. First psychotic break at 16.

I feel I was born with this illness

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How old are you now @Ooorgle

I heard voices, music and sound around 15-18. Then at 19 I heard flat out voices there was no denying to myself that they were voices to this day. Then a month later I started doing lsd and that’s what really made me psychotic. I was always a shy sensitive weird strange kid in his own world sorta. And then I may have had hallucinations at 15 years old. But my BEHAVIOR never became all too psychotic till I was 19. But there was something up with me before for sure.

I had the thought this morning “if it weren’t for me getting the umbilical chord wrapped around my neck, pulled out by forceps, born all bloody and stuff,well maybe that’s why I was always so damn sensitive. Since I was very young I was always called sensitive

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34 now, was diagnosed at 33 with sza depressive

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I was once visually hallucinate at the age of 10. But SZ symptoms developed at the age of 23. My every episode was ended with a horrible visual hallucination when pdoc increased the medication doze. So it was four. Some how i developed faith in my above hallucinations and pray them. I didn’t experience voices but all intrusive thoughts come in my mind also suffered from paronia.

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From what I remember I had flat feet and a high instep. I did have to do some exercises with the headmaster’s wife at prep school. I was given insoles to wear as I tended to go over on my ankles, but they proved costly as they kept going missing when I was at public school. The probable reason? Boys who liked to bully me hid them .

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