I don’t experience visual hallucinations, I have a lot of delusions and strange beliefs but they only last a minute or so at most, the main reason I was diagnosed is because I have auditory hallucinations, I’m thinking misdiagnosis (schizoaffective), but can I have Sz/Sza with only auditory hallucinations/brief delusions?
Sza is a mood disorder. It’s like schizophrenia with depression or bipolar. Are you saying you think you only have a mood disorder?
Sza is not a mood disorder. My doctor told me that it is a thought disorder.
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Visual hallucinations aren’t as common as auditory hallucinations in sz and sza. Not having them really isn’t an indication that you don’t have sza.
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I stand corrected.
Edit: I guess I was trying to say it has a mood component.
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Yes. any type of hallucination combined with delusions is enough for a schiz diagnosis. I have never had visual or auditory hallucinations and am diagnosed sza.
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I had been diagnosed with only having paranoia and delusions. Several years later after going off the meds I experienced vivid realistic hallucinations however at the time I thought that it was just reality.
This is first time visiting a psychiatrist for this?
If yes, dont take your first diagnosis very seriously. They need more time to get to know you and your symptoms.
Many places dont want to label a diagnosis to quick, but their own hand is forced(by paperwork required by both private insuance and tax subsidized clinics.)
They ***must***put a code on a form. Each code stands for a diagnosis. No code on form, no re-imbursement via insurance/subsidy.
First diagnosis is often changed or modified later.
Most schizophrenics don’t have visual hallucinations.
Don’t fight your doctors on the diagnosis, and try to be compliant with the treatment regime they plan for you.
Otherwise you’ll be keeping yourself from getting better.
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I think you can still have schizophrenia even if you have delusions and strange beliefs. Not all schizophrenics hallucinate. In my case, I was hospitalized at a hospital for my schizophrenia, and the doctors told me that I possibly have “a misdiagnosis”, and that I wasn’t schizophrenic. He event went on saying that dissociative identity disorder doesn’t exist. But, when I was admitted to ER, I told my symptoms to the doctor and he agreed on my schizophrenia.
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