I sometimes wonder if I’m sz instead of sza because I never had proper criteria of mania. My “hypomania” is less than four days. Depression was longer but it could be negative symptoms as well.
Reason I’m doubting is because in hospital my pdoc asked me what do I think I have and I said sza and borderline (because my one ex pdoc said that) and in the end when my diagnosis came through at discharge time, they wrote “schizophrenia, unspecified”
It does overlap yes. I wish psychiatry was more objective because when people ask what I have it’s confusing to me to explain when the pdocs themselves don’t agree. Most of them said sz and only about three or four said sza.
Nowadays I just say I have “schizophrenia and depression” . People here in SA understand it better it seems. It probably is the truth anyway.
My psychosis has lasted for years, it never went completely away. On meds my depression went away and most of my anxiety but even on two AP’s I still get some psychosis but definitely more copeable