After being in treatment for about 5 months i finally asked what my diagnosis is. Now i know. I don’t know if i was afraid to ask before or what. But now i have something i can call my disease instead of calling it the thing the aliens and government did to me. I walked out with a smile now i can say i have Schizoaffective Depressive Type disorder. I think it will help to remember that when i start thinking about alien beams and implants. Anybody else have the same thing?
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Yes. I have had schizophrenia for about fifteen years but was only diagnosed last year. I had a sort of remission for about ten years between psychoses.
When I was diagnosed I felt a bit the same as you. I felt like I could say “there’s not a monster trying to get in the house to murder me, that’s schizophrenia and nothing is trying to hurt me.”
I still have to practice saying that to this day because my ‘hallucinations’ and ‘delusions’ feel so very real. Like there is nothing setting them apart from reality.
Sometimes I feel like I live in two worlds.
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I only found out what my diagnosis (paranoid schizophrenia) was after I left the hospital, and my regular doctor told me. It’s good to know what it is, like you said.
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My diagnosis is not so clear.
It’s either psychotic bipolar or schizoaffective disorder, but I have been thinking that it could be another psychotic disorder of some kind.
My psychiatrist seems to be a bit confused.
Most psychiatrists are a bit lost when it comes to diagnosing me.
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i have been in a good mood since i left the doctor . i hope it keeps up.
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my new pdoc diagnosed me with schizoaffeffective disorder depressive type. that was a few months ago
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I was diagnose as treatment resistant schizophrenia 10 years ago but my diagnosis had been change to schizoaffective disorder depressive type last year after i met a new pdoc.
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Some do better having a dx some don’t. My self schizoaffective (NOS) so none the wiser as tends to switch from schizophrenia to schizoaffective often.
I think it’s human nature to want to know what group you belong to, be it for mental health or anything else.
Having said that I think diagnosis is largely a pile of goop. The important thing is getting the right treatment for your symptoms be it meds and/or therapy.
I regard myself as a person with primary anxiety, secondary mood and thought issues and a learning difficulty.
You are in control no one else.