Any advice would be appreciated.
Edit: I have not been diagnose yet
Essentially yes. You can have your records sent over to help though
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Not here in the UK.
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I just switched about 3 months ago, and i had my records transferred. I have the same diagnosis, schizophrenia, general anxiety with panic attacks, and major depressive disorder.
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Wouldn’t know. Pdocs never discussed diagnosis with me. I always ended up finding out on paperwork official diagnosis. That being said, my diagnosis has been consistent since i was first diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia, base on what I’ve seen on paperwork.
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Depends on the doctor. Some might re-evaluate. Some might be lazy and continue based on your records.
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Many new doctors hold on to the previous diagnosis unless they find something else
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Probably not. I used to have varying diagnosis over the years. The most common one that stuck was chronic paranoid schizophrenia. But once I had one that was like 5 to 7 words. I can’t even remember. Paranoid was still in there and I think sub chronic somewhere. One time I even had my doc fooled and got schizophrenia, residual type in remission. That’s a lot of words too but I can remember that one.
But now there aren’t different kinds of schizophrenia. At least not in the US. It’s just all simply called schizophrenia.
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Hi, I am 40 years old and since the age of 17 I see an old frail man staring at me in the mirror and have had a male voice speaking to me since then aswell, I was freaked out at first as he could get really loud and tell me what to do and say horrible things to me, but other times he was more quiet or even say pleasant things to me. Over the years I have had lots of violent outbursts due to him telling me people are laughing, pointing at me or going to attack me. I have periods where I lock myself away for months at a time when he’s being really horrible or influencing me to do horrible things, so my quality of life has been really poor but I have always been to worried to speak to anyone about him at the risk of being judged or being told I’m crazy, but it’s got to the stage now where he has got so much worse to the extent where he makes me hurt myself and try’s to make me attack random men when I leave the house and when I try to sleep he starts screaming or I hear screaming women coming from outside my house. Growing up I was fighting a lot and used to see ghosts quite a lot but when I was 17 I saw a medium spiritualist who told me there was a male spirit with me. since then the man was in the mirror and he has been speaking to me controlling me ever since. I had a bad trauma when I was 16, my friend got attacked and died in my arms. And I used to get hit and punched a lot by my dad as a child but don’t feel like a victim and feel completely cold and not bothered by any of that stuff anymore. I am with the mental health team now who have put me on an antipsychotic and pregablin, and are suggesting they think I either have a chemical imbalance causing psychosis or ptsd but need to spend more time with me before diagnosing, I am 100% sure it is a spirit possessing me tho. I am hoping to speak to people here who may also have voices aswell? And if I am mentally Ill as the doctors are suggesting or I am right that I am being possessed? Thanks michael
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I think that other diagnosis I had was schizophrenia, sub chronic, paranoid type with acute exacerbations. Way too complicated. I forget why I had to go see that guy. It must have been a crisis’ appointment to get my meds adjusted or something.
But when I went back to my regular doctor she just said chronic paranoid schizophrenia again. I was like thank the lord. I didn’t want to have to remember that other one.
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Mostly new Pdocs may ask the history and would consider all factors and then come to a dx. Because I have experience of going to different Pdocs at different times because I used to not stick to a proper med plan and eventually get into a manic phase and then again take meds and repeat it. Now I am trying to make the most of what I can with the amount of resources available.
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Usually new pdocs like to make their own evaluations and diagnoses. The diagnosis they determine depends upon their own professional judgment.
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