ive had my dx changed from sza-d to depression w/ psychotic features.
for me when i found out i was schiz it was a shock, i thought ‘am i crazy now?’, ‘is this how it is for me for the rest of life?’…i saw my experience as something completely negative instead of using it as a means to move forward. in the end, i have embraced it…i’ve never accepted it…but i have acknowledge it.
i feel like changing my dx is taking away the struggle and pain i went through as a schiz person. my mental state hasnt changed from when i had sza dx, so i guess this is why i see experience as more important than dx.
is schiz more of a label associated with pessimism? i feel my story/struggle is now lost now that i am not medically a schiz person.
Having a definitive diagnosis would be great, but the problem is psychiatrists are honestly not sure what is going on with me.
They seem to be split or torn between bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder, my current psychiatrist tells me that I display both bipolar and SZA symptoms - she recently diagnosed me officially with OCD as well.
Psychiatrists and other Mental Health professionals tend to stigmatize against the Schizophrenia/SZA diagnosis - its actually pretty common.
I dont care what my diagnosis is as long as it is a solid concrete DX - but most psychiatrists are confused and dont know how to label me - thank goodness diagnoses are not as important as the symptoms.
I am on a medication - Risperdal that addresses both bipolar and SZA symptoms, so it really doesnt matter what I am diagnosed with - I guess.
It’s pretty important to me so I know where to start to (not to sound narcissistic) talk about myself, as far as symptoms go. The problem I face now is I don’t know which symptoms I have, but at least I know where to start. The doctor’s were reluctant to even give me a diagnosis and one even said it doesn’t matter. So why do they even have the names?
it’s nice to know what dx is given to me.i know it can change frequently for some. i’ve been borderline personality with psychotic nos, to schizophrenia to paranoid schizophrenia.Then it changed to schizoaffective disoder with dependent personality disorder then to schizoaffective disorder with ptsd.
yeah,i am the sam but thats like that because i still feel bad…when i feel fine i am accapeting my dx better it was a schock for me also my dx at first. i thought ill never get it through this… i dont feel fine still… still struggling with the help of haldol now
Honestly, I would much rather be called something else than schizophrenic.
You are lucky man, it would take a huge weight of my chest.
Sometimes I feel like I might have other issues and was wrongly diagnosed, it could be true… you never know.
You know you can start a law case against the government now for wrongly diagnosing you as a schizophrenic and putting you through what you went through right?
It has happened a few times here in Australia people have sewed for hundreds of thousands even millions. it isn’t talked about a lot though.
For some reason I think the dix (paranoid episodic schizophrenia with residual symptoms), made me abit satisfyed. Its like I now have an exuse
But I think Im also aware of that most people doesnt look kind upon that kind of illness. I guess the few who knows what schizophrenia is, is sympathetic, while others think bad of mentally ill people. I sort of turned less “happy” with the diagnosis when I realized that there are cognitive features on my diagnosis as well, and I aint as bright as I used to be… That really sucks, I was always scoring high on school tests, and iq tests, maths and stuff. Now Im just numb.
My doctor officially diagnosed me with Schizophrenia & Bipolar, the bipolar part of which I wholly disagreed with.
My psychotherapist seems to have a different stance on my symptoms. He feels that because I’m predominantly hallucinating visually, instead of audially, it could rather be PTSD or something else.
I was thinking… if the brain can under go change… wouldn’t that affect the Dx?
Also… after a decent period of being med compliant and stable… It sort of feels like things are changing for me. Everyday is a new part the head circus coming up.
In nursing school we are doing psych now. I’d like to know my DSM-V axis dx’s. I’ve seen the #'s written down and wondered what they were, I wonder if they are the same thing as what they tell me to my face.
it was a schock for me also my dx at first. i thought ill never get it through this… i dont feel fine still… still struggling 
