I know it doesn’t matter. I feel I don’t have sz , I went a decade without another psychotic episode… but I’m also not convinced I have bipolar. I really feel it’s a type of depression as I tend to feel low often but just not to the point of wanting to die. I haven’t felt that way since my teens.
And yet there are times when I feel I do. This is not that time. I think maybe it’s because things are going ok.
It could be Schizoaffective depressive type @anon25873142
It just confuses me because not a lot of people have a decade between their psychosis but then again I was very complaint with meds.
I literally felt the same until I read on a forum, bipolar people not having episodes on a long time does happen, some guy there said he went 16 years without an episode.
Really? 16 years ? I didn’t know that could happen. Thought it was episodic.
You can recover from schizophrenia in that you csn go a long time without a psychotic episode too. I dont think thats super common, but i know it csn happen.
Yeah it really surprised me, he said he was very med complaint and avoided triggers.
Maybe my meds are controlling the manic episodes well enough cos I don’t feel I have had them in a while.
I went 10 years without a psychosis but I was for the most part complaint.
I mean compliant
I thought they measured how long your psychosis was for sz. 6 months or longer and youve got it. Ive had a few full psychotic episodes much longer than 6 months and i always hear voices which technically i believe means im still in psychosis.
Yeah. I dont think thay would disqualify you from the diagnosis. Besg to bring the issue up with your dr though
It’s frustrating to never see the same doc more than once but I’ll try to have this conversation with them when I have another episode as they discharged me over a year ago.
Active psychosis must last at least 1 month, but sz symptoms much be present for 6 months or longer, at least two, which can include hallucinations, delusions, thought disorder, negative symptoms.
Mine lasted until I was medicated which was a couple of weeks so if they had let it go on I might have gone past 6 months but I don’t know.
I went over 16 years or more without a psychotic episode until 2016 when I switched meds and had to be hospitalized @anon25873142
Yeah we both in the same boat @Vertigo it’s so confusing !
Yeah it sure is @anon25873142!
Maybe that’s why our docs are confused too. Some say bipolar , others sza.
They are so similar @anon25873142
I say I have either one
My therapist says it doesn’t matter
Maybe she’s right but for some reason I’m never satisfied
Its talked about a lot on this forum and i just commented on another thread about it but diagnoses arent very cut and dry like we like to think. Drs are as varied as we are, as scientific as they may try to be, there arent any concrete physical tests we can do to diagnose a mental illness, so we rely a lot on interpretations in an already flawed system. Our understanding of mental illness is constantly, rapidly changing, and there is so many studies that contradict one another, idk 
maybe well never fully be able to capture mental illness in a book.