I asked my psychiatrist about my diagnose and she said I have bipolar symptoms but since I have no girlfriend or friends she thinks it’s schizophrenia, I’m kind of speechless.
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What does that have anything to do with your diagnosis? Your pdoc is full of sh-it.
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I think it’s because we szs get so withdrawn, we can get the idea we don’t need others.
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She said if get a girlfriend and socialize more she must likely diagnose me with bipolar.
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She’s full of sh-it. Again, your relationships doesn’t have anything to do with your diagnosis.
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I told her I like to be alone and she told me that a schizophrenia thing.
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So shy people, introverts and social phobics are schizophrenics too according to her?
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Apparently 1515
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It’s not a great way to diagnose someone with schizophrenia but psychiatrists do consider the patients social life and life skills.
One of my favorite psychologists diagnosed me with schizoaffective based on my poor functioning level.
So it’s not that far fetched.
But of course she also took into consideration my positive and negative symptoms
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I laughed at this for that pdoc… Diagnosis is not this simple imo. There are lot of factors to consider. Even pdocs I went to diagnosed in a different way. But it was a bit convincing at least for me. Because anyone more intelligent than me I tend to accept what they say.
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This was one of the reasons my old psychiatrist diagnosed the sz part. Because I had no friends. Might be an autism though for me
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I don’t consider my psychiatrist to be more intelligent than me, he just knows more about medicine. But I’m sure I know more than him in other things.
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Unlike some/many(?) who lose friends due to developing schizophrenia , I’ve always been very short of friends. No pdoc I’ve seen has openly used that to define what mental illness I have.
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I had a gf and a few friends when I was diagnosed with sza. I don’t think you pursuing friends automatically means sz or not. There’s a lot more to it than just that.
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My pdoc said im too high functioning to have schizoaffective.
Pdocs all have differing opinions.
Anyway whatever your dx is it doesnt matter its about how to get the right treatment
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But the bipolar subreddit said they will ban me if I don’t have bipolar.
Good thing this forum isnt the bipolar subreddit lol
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Like i came to this forum almost 10 years ago because i was constantly dealing with psychosis. It was chronic. But i still have a bipolar dx
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I understand this forum accept people who experience psychosis regardless of dx, but the bipolar subreddit taught me neat trick how deal with Bipolar psychosis.
What trick is that?
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