Over diagnosis of Schizophrenia

Interesting study.

A little outdated but fascinating nevertheless.

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Is it really chronic if you’re on meds though … ? I struggle with constant anxiety but no positive symptoms on meds.

Edit : ignore. I misunderstood what chronic meant.

My current psychiatrist feels that my diagnosis of bipolar disorder mimics schizophrenia at times due to abundant anxiety and OCD symptoms.
This kind of makes sense.

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It makes you wonder how many of us here on the forum are walking around with a misdiagnosis. I was initially diagnosed at the age of 47 with acute depression with psychotic features after years of a hellish marriage. That hell and stress continued for several more years and the diagnosis changed to Schizophrenia after another bout of psychosis. Further down the track I ended up in Hospital and the diagnosis was changed to Schizoaffective Disorder. Who knows who or what to believe.

I understand there are a lot of us here that have had their diagnosis changed on more than one occasion.

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