You need to have had psychotic symptoms for at least six months. How am I supposed to tell if they put me on meds early on, before the six months of psychosis mark. So I have hand a total of six months psychosis in 12 years…. I guess i am lucky it got caught early both times.
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Sorry i obsess about this. I need to find a new outlet for my obsessions around this.
I’m a little too lazy to look up the criteria atm, but I believe that I was diagnosed not following the current diagnostic methods either.
I believe you are supposed to have TWO of a certain positive symptoms in order to be diagnosed. I only had one: Delusions. I think my psychiatrist may have been diagnosing based on the old criteria of if delusions are bizarre enough…
Again, I’m too lazy to look things up atm so going based on memory here, so I may have something wrong.
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I got mine due to family history, no other medical issues, I wasn’t depressed, i was a classic case of sz so it was pretty easy for me.
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No one in my family or relatives have sz, I have a lot of relatives. Maybe it skipped a few generations OR i just got lucky.
ok, maybe I’m not too lazy to look it up:
" According to the criteria, a person must have at least two of the following symptoms for a month: delusions . hallucinations . disorganized speech ."
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Yup. Had delusions and hallucinations for well over a month.
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Well there’s your answer
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@anon25873142 I know that a sz diagnosis is hard to accept but it’s part of healing in a way
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From the same article as above:
" Doctors will only diagnose schizophrenia if a person has consistently experienced at least two of the positive symptoms of schizophrenia in the past month and has had some form of mental disturbance for the past 6 months."
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most people don’t knw wat sz/sza is
so try not 2 worry
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It’s hard to accept whatever it is. They tell me it’s bipolar, i think it is sz. They tell me it is sz, and I think it is bipolar. I don’t trust the doctors opinions, but i know the meds work.
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@Bowens Thanks for looking this up for me. I guess i just have to continue with the treatment and I will be just fine…hopefully can go another decade without positive at least … I can deal with the moods much better.
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I had two, for sure. Delusions and hallucinations, like you, @anon25873142
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The first doctor that diagnosed said schizophrenia she also was a gas lighter, so i never really believed her.
Second one opted for schizoaffective and said i didn’t have schizophrenia.
My actual one right now may have got it right she diagnosed me with an organic affective disorder at first but changed the diagnosis to bipolar.
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Yeah that’s the trouble I have had too many different opinions for me to even believe one of them. The only thing I can accept is the psychosis.
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