Please, please be careful when reading about illnesses and trying to self diagnose your symptoms.
First I read about schizophrenia and wrote out a whole bunch of symptoms I thought I had that fit the criteria. Then presented these notes to the pdoc.
I did the same with bipolar.
I want to stress I never lied. I always thought I had these things. Now I’m going to have to work in therapy to try and identify what this really is. Possibly anxiety but I feel like a fraud.
I hope you get it all figured out. I don’t think you lied. Lots of people convince themselves that they have the diseases they read about. Medical students do this all the time. Just tell your psychiatrist what you’re thinking and feeling and let the pdoc figure it out
I hit the system pretty hard after psychosis so I don’t know. But I’m being careful not to self-diagnose myself with autism. Although I identify myself as on the autism spectrum, I personally do not want to say “I for sure have autism” unless I get tested for it.
The pdoc said one psychosis isn’t enough to DX schizophrenia. So yes possible could have been due to extreme anxiety and I know I was extremely stressed.
I sorta knew i was schizophrenic long before i was diagnosed. It was the only Dx that made sense. And yeah - i did the google thing - but to me it was helpful.
I never self diagnosed. It took me about 6 or 7 years to figure out I was actually sick. The doctors did all the diagnosis and surprisingly he got it right. My second pdoc.