I was diagnosed as bipolar about in 2008. I’ve been on so many medications to control my thoughts my anxiety the racing thoughts there’s sometimes two voices in my head I don’t know if it’s like my subconscious or if it’s another voice but I really don’t like talking much I don’t do much I don’t like going outside I stay away from family functions I’m starting to read about schizophrenia and I’m thinking that I was diagnosed wrong because the medications I’m on never seems to help. They keep having to switch mads every 6 months or every year or lower dosages or make them higher because something’s not working right. My question is how do you know if your schizophrenic?
I also have bipolar and think I’m schizoaffective. I have really bad bipolar. Almost as bad as what you described. I’m not sure how you can tell you’re sz. Probably that your illness is mood related where sz doesn’t have mood episodes.
If you have racing thoughts, that means you’re bipolar or at least schizoaffective. If you’re not sure about your diagnosis, why not get a second or third opinion?
Then you must be delusional. 
I’m on 1200 mg of lithium
100mg of Zoloft
100mg of topamax
3 1 mg Klonopin daily
I’m shaky can’t stop thinking then all of a sudden I get a burst of energy and we’ll clean the whole apartment I’ve even taken the blinds down before and wash them in the bathtub or unscrewed though ceiling fan blades off and clean them too. Everyday throughout the day for like a half hour I could sit down and watch Netflix then all of a sudden I have to stop and do something like wash dishes or sleep or clean or rearrange the cans in the cabinet kind of like old CD my husband tells me I’m always expressionless I always have a dead look on my face I don’t do a lot of things outside the house only when I have two constantly putting things in places and I forget where I put them such as chapstick phone remote control keys dish sponge weird stuff the mail key I’m very forgetful and I talk very fast like my brain is working faster and I can’t get the words out as quick I have insomnia it drives me crazy I’m also a recovering alcoholic 3 years and 3 months sober and I was out on all this medication while I was drinking for 12 years well I was drinking I still felt this way that’s why I drank nobody understands how I feel I try to explain it husband my mom my sister-in-law my son they just think I’m crazy has been in Mental Hospitals before threatened suicide but was too afraid to go through with it I just wish I could feel like myself again kind of sorta normal instead of thinking of the worst all the time my head just doesn’t stop I’m very compulsive I can never sit still right before I started writing this I was putting new sheets on my bed and I just impulsively in the middle of it stopped to go and come on and write this this is what I do all day start one thing then I stopped and start another I do think I’m going crazy sometimes but I pray to God that helps me sort of and I say the Serenity Prayer
If u have all the negative symptoms it could be sZ…COMPAre it…