I’ve been in the hospital the last three days after having suicidal ideation. I honestly don’t remember much leading up to going to the hospital, but apparently, during my stay, the observed my behavior enough to change my diagnosis from paranoid schizophrenia to schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type.
I don’t know much about bipolar disorder, and I’m worried about what it means to be diagnosed with it. What about me gave them that impression?
What do you guys think?
My diagnosis was recently changed from sza depressive type to bipolar type. I’m nervous about it, too. I just have hypomania, not full blown mania, though. It makes me feel really antsy and agitated, like I want to climb out of my skin and run away. Do you know whether you have mania or hypomania? It will be okay, I think. You’re not alone in this. I’m thinking about going to the hospital too.
Szaffec is better prognosis then just sz …
I have mania, which from what I’m reading makes it bipolar 1.
Do u have sad mood (feeling blue) cuz that is required for schizoaffective. I was diagnosed with sza for a long time cuz of an errant doctor. I dont have depressive episodes and i am now just dxed sz. U can look up dsm-IV online and read how they diagnose sza, its only a page long i suggest u inquire. I have a textbook with dsm in it.
Yes, I have depression as well.
Ok sounds like sza, gl, i hear good things about abilify for bipolar ppl. Sry they are gonna throw more meds at u. They should help, but of course side effects suck.
I’m sorry for ur depression too. I know it really hurts and everything can seem hopeless. Maybe this will cheer u up:
I’m also skeptical about my bipolar type part. (My diagnosis also wasn’t recently changed to sza bipolar) I mean I don’t really feel like I’ve experienced mania other than that one time on geodon and that could’ve just been it affecting me weirdly. As long as the meds they give me work though I don’t care about the label.
I’ve found that diagnosis changes depending on the side of the ocean you are. Sz aff is a popular term these days and found that in America it was more common than over here in Oz. I always thought that interesting but I suppose it’s how the doctors are introduced to the system.
These days it’s about treatment anyways. Labels are quite often changing and not as important as they used to be. Yes, you have schizophrenia but you have a flavour of it. We are all on a spectrum I think…especially when it comes to schizophrenia. Take the meds and trust in that…diagnosis may change should be written in the fine print!
We ar fu*ct, im ondefinited tipe, thats mean im all mess and sz saled
I wasn’t hospitalized recently but my diagnosis was changed to schizoaffective recently too. I can relate.
Please take care of yourself. I know life can be very stressful after a hospital stay.
My diagnosis is the same as yours Sza/bipolar type.
I once couldn’t sleep for 2 days and I had to go to the hospital to get a benzo to calm me down.
I’m unsure if having schizoaffective disorder is any better than having schizophrenia. They both share similar traits.
There’s medication for bi-polar. If you think the diagnosis is wrong you can go through possible trouble and hassle and get a second opinion from someone else.
I’ve been diagnosed sza since 1994. Sza is a schizophrenic disorder, not a bipolar disorder, according to my pdoc. Sza is worse than sz in many ways because not only do you have to deal with psychosis and psychotic symptoms, but you have to deal with mood symptoms and mood swings on top of the psychosis, as well as cognitive and negative symptoms. It’s like two illnesses in one. Schizophrenia AND Bipolar.