I’m listening to music after an hour long of spending time with my niece and nephew. My mind triggered a thought, the thought was I have schizoaffective disorder among other ailments. When I hear that word, it just makes me wonder if anything is real. My mind is everywhere, with so many thoughts. Im going to draw. I need to chill. Anyways. Thanks for listening to me.
-hermit
What’s interesting about schizoaffective (which is my diagnosis) is that it’s a combination of two different disorders, bipolar and schizophrenia, but it generally has a better prognosis (better outcome) than schizophrenia by itself does. I asked my psychiatrist about this phenomenon and he said that many schizophrenics experience a flatness of emotion, but schizoaffectives do not (due to the fact that their moods go up and down). For some reason this is desirable I suppose.
I can’t even form a proper thought or speech.
That makes a lot of sense. I heard about that too. Can I ask you a question?
I used to be like that but after like 2-3 years of medicine and treatment I’m a lot better. I don’t do word salad like I used to.
Sure you can ask anything
Thats amazing! I try to avoid the victim mentality but I feel like Im worsening since I got diagnosed at 15 (here in usa it was at 17) but do you think that schza can get worse over time? Or is that rare?
Mine has gotten better over time. I was very delusional at 30 when I first had it, it lasted a couple of years where my family had to stop letting me stay with them because I’d accuse them of outlandish things they weren’t doing. After four or five years the delusions and paranoia went away. The only thing left is hallucinations but I don’t take them as seriously anymore.
From what I’ve read the disease most often gets less severe over time. Only a few articles I’ve seen talk about it getting worse. The statistic I keep running into is that 1 in 5 people recover in 5-10 years from the first episode, 3 in 5 recover but still have some times when things get worse temporarily, and 1 out of 5 don’t recover. So there’s always hope that things can improve.
I got diagnosed at 30 so I was pretty old compared to most of the people on the forum. I’m just glad I got through the first couple of years because things are so much better now, my family accepted me back and I don’t accuse them of anything or have any delusions about what they are doing.
Wow. That really sucks, real nice to know you are doing a lot better, what A PS helped? The reason I asked the question is because of my bizarre behavior, which in this perspective I find it disturbing. As you see I finally posted a picture of myself, I felt like a freak with my scars on my face. My doctor told me my schiza exacerbated. But he sees I’m still high functioning. I hope I can recover.
I tried a lot without luck, Seroquel made my hallucinations worse and made me gain weight, Invega made me walk in circles constantly (akathisia is what it’s called), Latuda made me suicidal, but Zyprexa which is the last drug I tried helps a lot. It keeps the delusions and paranoia away. The only negative is that it doesn’t eliminate voices or images that I hallucinate. Still I really do better on it than when I’m not on anything, lots better.
It’s hard to recommend it though because different people react differently to different APs. For me 10mg of Zyprexa is the best drug and dose, I only have mild akathisia and the paranoia/delusions are completely gone.
I don’t have scars on my face but I have a lot on my arms and hands from accidents and self harm early on with the disease. I’m not beautiful but I posted a few pics on the selfie thread because every now and then I take a photo I think I look good in.
@agent101g, I have a complete flatness of emotion and I am diagnosed sza still after 26 years. The flatness of my emotions is probably due to my AP and AD meds. As it is with most sz’s.
I love Zyprexa I used to take 30mg I gained 80 lbs. I switched to invega and lost the weight. I enjoy invega. If anything were to go wrong zyprexa is my choice? You see? Yeah my face is a mess. I wear masks or cover my face. Sorry I’m a freak loool
Well Zyprexa works for me but yes most people here say it makes them gain weight. It never made me gain weight at all, but I think that’s pretty rare. If invega works for you I’d stick with it.
I really wish APs affected everybody the same, it would be easier to find one that works.
@SkinnyMe wow 26 years I tip my hat to you, that is very impressive. I really look up to people who have had this for a long time, I’m starting my sixth year with the disease.
Yeah that is true.
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