Continuing the discussion from Schizoaffective disorder:
Really? My mom said sza psychosis was less vivid than sz psychosis, but I didn’t understand what she meant. Is this it? I wonder how many sza’s have no hallucinations.
Sza without hallucinations here even without meds but i have negative symptoms according to my pdoc
Mine are mostly tactile.
I’ve never heard voices or saw things that weren’t there.
But I’ve suffered from severe depression and paranoia and delusions that wouldn’t quit.
So glad that part of my life is finally over with.
Still have to deal with seasonal depression.
So it’s just seasonal depression now and not clinical? That’s awesome! I’m so happy for you!!
Also, are your symptoms mood congruent? How prominent is your psychosis compared to your mood symptoms?
Yeah in the fall and winter I am pretty much out of it.
I just don’t function.
I basically sleep all the time during those months.
I do have good days but they are limited.
Honestly it is torture every year.
Right now I feel great.
I am physically active and functional.
Once the clocks change it is all downhill.
Hopefully soon dst will be abolished.
I believe you can be sz or sza without hallucinations. NAMI says you basically need two positive symptoms or one positive symptom accompanied by negatives.
So delusions and negatives could lead to a diagnosis of sz or sza of accompanied by a mood disorder. Or any combination of positives such as disorganized speech and catatonic behavior.
I hallucinate but I’ve never really had delusions, unless you count my paranoia as delusions, except I still have insight so it isnt really a delusion I dont think.
I personally wish I could have gotten a dx of psychotic depression as that sounds less bad than sza, but here we are. Actually I should ask my pdoc the difference between sza and psychotic depression. Maybe sza is longer lasting.
Sza off meds-hallucinations all the time
On meds-none
My prognosis is good, my bottom was low.
@nfy, What is dst? 15151515
Daylights saving times
@Squanchy, Like @Jonnybegood said, Sza’s, when they are off meds, hallucinate all of the time, depressed or not. People with psychotic depression, only hallucinate when they are depressed. That’s the difference between the two.
I don’t know what to vote for.
I’m sz, and I mostly don’t hallucinate much exept for inner voices.
But when I’m doing very poorly and I’m in rapid decline, I will see shadows of animals or have tactile hallucinations where it feels like I’ve peed myself, blood is running down my head, drops of acid touch my skin, and so on.
@Pikasaur, if I were you, I would vote sz with hallucinations.
Thanks for clearing that up, I’ll ask my pdoc about it because I’ve been severely depressed since before my diagnosis two years ago. I cant remember the last time I havent been depressed.
Oh well, they’re just labels I guess.
OMG, off topic kinda, but I sometimes get this awful tactile hallucination where it feels like someone’s scratching the top of my brain. Ugh it’s awful.
Sza depressive, still have daily hallucinations, voices mainly, but sometimes visual
SZA depressive type. And I hallucinate a lot. All kinds too visual auditory tactile olfactory and gustatory. But its not so bad.
It’s not so bad even though you’re not on meds? I’m glad for you, but I must admit that I’m also a tad jealous, because for me, it is that bad.
Even on meds, I have hallucinations (today, a voice keeps saying “Hitler,” for some reason), and yet I’m still more stable than I’ve ever been over the past 6 or 7 years. Without meds, there’s constant talking and ringing, light shows and shadows, vivid visual hallucinations, people’s faces distorted, commands and threats; and that’s just the stuff that I remember. Sometimes, my family will tell me that I did and said things that I have absolutely no recollection of, to the point where I sometimes wonder if they’re gaslighting me (or, I suppose, just misremembering).
I don’t know when this turned into share time, but it’s whatever. I’m not trying to one-up anybody. Just talking, sharing my experiences.
Like someone is scratching your brain, scalp or hair? I get all 3.
Gross, that sucks that you have all three. For me, it was just the brain though.