Has anyone ever been misdiagnosed on here? My doctor with grey hair who looks like my grandfather gave me cholesterol medication and I feel like the lights came on like I’m also on anxiety meds too so it could be a combination of both. I showed him my eyes were popping out of my sockets and I’m wondering if my hallucinations were from a stroke.
Any thoughts? Any weird misdiagnoses?
try another doctors like a P’doc and a physical health dr . but before go seek medical help at an er or urgent care… you could be hurting from med combination.
I have been diagnosed by 4 psychiatrists
and a disability committee.
All said schizophrenia.
This last month, I have no symptoms.
But i don’t think i am recovered permanently.
I’ve been misdiagnosed with sz.
I was misdiagnosed with borderline personality disorder for a while before it switched to sza
I was misdiagnosed as sz. Now I am diagnosed with psychotic depression.
There’s also a chance that I may have a brain disorder, such as thin corpus callosum…but my doctor never told me about my brain scan 
. Apparently my genetic condition causes psychosis in some people. My friends in the community tells me that I got the bad side of this genetic condition, lol.
I would say no.
The symptoms matched the diagnosis.
Diagnosis can change over time. Due to (1) The differing emphasison and recognition of symptoms by the pdocs you see
2) ‘phenomenological drift’, i.e. a patient’s symptoms can evolve over time necessitating different diagnoses to meet the evolving pattern of symptoms.
My first 3 psychiatrists diagnosed me with paranoid schizophrenia. 15 years later my current pdoc says he thinks it may be psychosis or schizoaffective.
I don’t really care about the term they use, the meds work so I’m happy.
I was misdiagnosed with major depressive disorder and the major depressive disorder with psychotic tendencies. My own fault because I never revealed until I got a good psychiatrist that I had been diagnosed schizoaffective as a teen.
I got slapped with BPD and told I didn’t need an antipsychotic
I was told I had adhd and given hurtful adhd pills.
I don’t necessarily think I was misdiagnosed. But my diagnoses have changed many times over the years.
I had negative symptoms before the positive ones around age 11 and I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder. When I was 14 I started having positive symptoms but I didn’t tell anyone about them. At age 16 I had my first psychotic episode and I was hospitalized long term. During that long hospitalization I was diagnosed with psychotic depression and then it was changed to schizoaffective disorder, depressive type. When I was 17 I had a manic episode and my diagnosis was changed to schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type. That is still my current diagnosis at age 21. I don’t think I was misdiagnosed, I just think that as more information about my symptoms was revealed there was more insight into my actual diagnosis.
For me it’s a toss up between bipolar with psychotic features and schizoaffective disorder bipolar type.
I consider myself both.
Do you mean borderline or bipolar?
Borderline Personality Disorder
I got my label changed to Bipolar for a few years and had psychiatrists tell me I never had schizophrenia. They didn’t think I had it.
The psychiatrist before that put me on Vyvanse which got rid of my anxiety and helped me learn to drive. But I had the label ADHD to get that.
I don’t think labels are legit anymore. Like you could be depressed and have to be called depressed but maybe its temporary, but that label will be there.
I may get my label changed again. I’m sick of the schizophrenia label. I don’t want to be associated with it anymore. Or there could just be a better label or term for what it is.
Confusing life disorder.
Wouldn’t that be a contradiction in terms?
I don’t view a diagnosis as an ironclad, static part of my identity. I have grown and changed a lot over the past few decades. Stands to reason my problems would grow and change, as well.