My diagnosis is schizophrenia. However I think it really is schizoaffective. I won’t see diagnose but I’ve had mood components…I don’t think my treatment would change if my diagnosis was to change. But still.
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I was originally diagnosed sz. but then years later changed to sza. when I was diagnosed I was showing no emotion for an extended period, but really that was just because I was in public instead of at home, where I was always very moody. up and down.
my meds haven’t changed though, but im more at peace with being described sza because it fits my experience more accurately.
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Me too. After my relapse in 2012 they diagnosed me with bipolar then with sz. I couldn’t come to accept the diagnosis of sz because it didn’t explain my mood component. I would have severe depression as well as negative symptoms and hypomania. When i was diagnosed with sza it made much more sense and it fit me better
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I think it depends on locality for sure. My shrink in the states wanted to say I was sz affective because I have a serious mood disorder in major depression…
Over here in Australia I’m paranoid sz and that suits me. I think for our part of the world sz aff is more with depression and mania. I don’t really get mania so I relate more to paranoid sz and major depression…
I know that is getting semantic but paranoid sz is different to my major depression!
I haven’t been clinically depressed nor manic in 14 years, but previous to that, I had terrible ups and downs for many years. Based on this, I am still diagnosed with sza.
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