Mine was questioned at 4 months but it took a year and a half to be finally diagnosed.
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Mine is still lingering…!!!
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Why does it matter.
Diagnoses are as unique as the individual. It’s not a race.
They said schizophrenia at the hospital right away, over the years and different doctors have come up with some pretty bad opinions. One nurse told me I could see 10 doctors and each one would have a different opinion.
One I think has to look on line, read articles, talk with people in chat and forums that suffer similar things and kinda come to your own conclusion and figure out whats best for you. That can take a few years through trial and error. Mental illness can vary so much from person to person I think it would be hard for anyone to get it right.
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I was diagnosed psychotic depression when I was 17/18, then when we went to change my meds because it had been several years since the depression had been an issue things went to complete â– â– â– â– again when I was about 24 and they decided it was probably sz the whole time but the meds were keeping me under control.
I was very ill by the time I went to hospital, so it was an easy diagnosis for them I assume.
sz right away in the hospital like for @Mountainman. its commun here to have easy a diagnosis of sz once you end up in hospital… but the pdoc of my father thought that I am borderline.
Well I was misdiagnosed with bipolar in my twenties. When psychosis hit hard again in my thirties, last year, it took my psychiatrist a couple of months to diagnose me with schizophrenia. So it either took a long time or a short time depending on how you look at it.
My diagnosis date on my disability form is May of 2005 but I was not officially diagnosed with any sz disorder until July of 2010!!! Does anyone else’s Doctor wrote a different diagnosis date than before you were actually diagnosed??
I just started telling my Psych about me hearing mumblings and my paranoia/delusions.
My Psych said that hearing mumblings isn’t hearing voices.
I haven’t told about hearing my name being called when nobody is around.
It’s slow for me. It’s difficult for me to tell everything to my Psych…in case they want to lock me up in a Psych ward, which I really don’t want to happen. I’m not harming myself in any way nor feel suicidal. I just am really anxious about everything.
I just want to be normal.
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I had mumblings in my head before I heard actual voices.
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2 days…in the hospital I think I knew before I went though…
I still don’t know what I have and its been 15 years. The original diagnosis was bipolar II. Since then it went to bipolar I to schizoaffective back to Bipolar I.
Its bad whatever it is. I don’t function as well as a bipolar person even though they tell me thats what I am
I got so bad I got arrested and they sent me to the phych Ward. I first seen my dx about a week after I was there. Paranoid schizophrenia but I’m sure they had a pretty good idea almost immediately.
Immediately for depression, 4 or 5 months maybe for sz
Let’s see…
First symptoms at age 13 but I kept playing it off as other things. Even in the hospital I never told anyone about my voices because I thought they’d never let me leave. I was dx with Bipolar 2 in 2010 when I was 21 but still didn’t tell anyone what was really going on. I was just so terrified of what would happen. Finally this spring I started to tell my therapist and my psychiatrist about seeing and hearing things and eventually told them everything because I was just so sick of being sick. Got my dx of Schizoaffective Disorder in September of this year at age 28. So it took me 15 years!
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It took a long time. My Psych didn’t know what I had. It was a mixture of ADHD, GAD, Panic Attacks, Paranoia and Depression, plus some PTSD symptoms. I’ve had most of these since I was a kid.
This Psych was very reluctant to even listen to me when I told them that I heard voices.
Finally after 1 year with this Psych said “OK, well sounds like Paranoid Schizophrenia” a few weeks ago…
It was hard to talk about some topics with my Psych, but I had to tell them. So I did.
It made my Psych seem sad and ashamed like I’m some reject. It made me feel very uncomfortable.
I was 16 when the symptoms began and I knew I was mentally ill, but i thought I was bipolar. Then three years later I read about schizophrenia and I knew it had to be that. A psychologist agreed. But thanks to my closed minded, deep in denial parents I kept doubting my diagnosis. Went to several doctors, but my parents were never right.
I remember once taking this extremely long test(BRUTAL) to help with the diagnosis. And I could never explain my symptoms properly in those times so the test was all wrong for me. I gave such strange answers, probably lots contradicting. The test results said I fit the category of someone that lies about their illness lol, a hypochondriac.
First time I was diagnosed was autumn of 2003. Didn’t get the SZ/SZA diagnosis until summer of 2005. So I guess almost 2 years to get it correct. However, in my case, they knew it was SZ right away back in autumn of 2003. They just didn’t want to jump into the SZ diagnosis right away. But I know they saw it right away.
My first diagnosis was: schizoid features, dysthymic disorder, social isolation.
Schizoid features? Sounds more like Schizophrenia. Just didn’t want to jump into that SZ label right away. Maybe to see if there was possibility of not needing to be put on anti-psychotic.