Is this enough to be schizophrenic

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I was just asking why I should believe them so I can see why. It wasn’t meant to be accusatory. You helped me by explaining why.

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My doctors don’t think I have full blown sz

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I was diagnosed as bipolar in college. So now I’m schizoaffective I think but the psychiatrist in the hospital I think said paranoid sz.

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They don’t know so

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Know what?

I know I have been diagnosed with mental conditions but still wonder if my North Korea “delusion” is real or not because I got involved with the wrong guy (my boyfriend) who set me up.

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Hospital Dr’s are almost always wrong in my experience. They just want to get you out. Listen to your outpatient dr

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I don’t really have an outpatient doctor. So are all my diagnoses wrong?

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Why not? And I don’t know. I’m just saying in my experience theyre too quick to slap a label on you to get you out. You really need an outpatient Dr to get this sorted out. Again people on the internet cannot diagnose you or tell you if any diagnosis is right or wrong.

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My therapist that I saw for awhile thought I was bipolar. I saw her for about 3 months. Is that enough? I never really consistently saw anyone for that long.

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I would trust her judgment until you get a second opinion.

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I would definitely get a second outpatient opinion.

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I already had 2 outpatient opinions.

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Here and there I thought I was a fallen angel or the Anti-Christ. Never the devil or anything. I think I was just schizophrenic and remembered stuff. None of it’s real. I believe. Some people take it a little too broadly or much like yourself, but at the end of the day, you need to take care of yourself and put yourself first.

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I barricade my doors every night. The threat is that a couple of rednecks might be out drinking and forget all good sense and caution and come into our apartments and try to beat me within an inch of my life. I’m sick right now, and I couldn’t put up much of a fight. I keep my cell phone with me so I can call 911.

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And what were their opinions?

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That I was delusional. One of them said that. I’m not sure about the other. She just said it was very unlikely.

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Something will always happen. lol

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I think there is no such thing as “enough” to be schizophrenic. I think what matters is how you deal with your sz.

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[ambient, mysterious noise]

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@flowers20, how has your latest, outpatient psychiatrist diagnosed you? Just curious.