I wonder if the reason my diagnosis was changed was because I cried during a session with my psychiatrist and said I didn’t believe I had schizophrenia and that I was just misunderstood. The label was changed to bipolar and for two years I was told I never had schizophrenia.
Some things that help me are learning to slow down, listening to music, education/learning new things, creative projects that I can accomplish. My brother never developed schizophrenia, but he’s really intelligent and sometimes he calls himself bipolar so I wonder if maybe I have bipolar but extreme stress brought out some of my worse symptoms. I’m trying to decide whether or not to continue taking aristada because I dont know if its helping me or worsening the way I think…
I’m just waiting for the insurance to approve it. I have to take it next week…dreading the side effects.