because schizoaffective your brain and your emotions are broken, schizophrenia not so much
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But is it worse than schizophrenia+ borderline?
I have not experienced the joys of borderline yet. but at least with borderline you donât have to take meds because there arenât any for it no?
Idk i dont have it
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thats good, I honestly didnt know what to say. I hear its pretty bad.
Good combo though!
Iâm schizoaffective, and I get what youâre saying, but I donât know that I would characterize one as worse than the other. On paper, when you look at the list of symptoms, Iâd say sza looks worse. Some schizophrenics have it worse than some schizoaffectives, though. I donât hallucinate other than during psychotic breaks, canât imagine what it would be like to hear voices just whenever, though I realize not all schizophrenics hear voices. I also realize some who hear voices and such do so because they are noncompliant with their meds. Some do all they can by taking meds, avoiding drugs, etc. and still deal with a ton of such crap.
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My ex-gf is borderline and, yeah, there are no meds that will treat it. She took an antidepressant (sometimes) and Klonopin, but that just treated the comorbid stuff. Even therapy has minimum effect on it. I will say that I donât think I will ever be willing to date another borderline.
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I think the ânormsâ have it worse, because they have no excuse to be the way they are.
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I donât know I went to a dual diagnosis meeting the other night and there was a yound guy in there that identified as schizophrenia. You would never have known, he was the coolest most put together person in the group.
I am called ânot garden varietyâ and lie somewhere between bipolar 2 and schizoaffective. I also have OCD, Anxiety, Body Dysmorphic disorder and I donât function well
True, all illnesses vary greatly from one individual to the next. Thatâs why I was saying that I wouldnât categorize one as worse than the other, since it all comes down to the effect on the individual.
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Not Garden varietyâŚsounds like me, Iâm best known as
"MI soup with complementary crackers."
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yes, Im a lot like a chowder
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thats true there are some people, a lot of norms actually who just suck. Theres no other way to put it.
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the only thing they have on us is that they didnt lose their minds. There are actually people walking around dumb as nails but because they never lost their minds they can hold their heads up high. Meanwhile, they all shop at wall mart, eat fast food, curse and practice intolerance. This is where the :stigma" comes from
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I have Delusional Disorder (until they change it again). I wouldnât say that itâs worse than SZ, SZA or BP but it is very hard to live my life constantly being watched, monitored and controlled. It must be nice for people (normies) to just live their lives regardless of their status in life. It must be nice to be free of MI.
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yes i agree, but I have to remind myself that life wasnât so easy before I developed this problem. I got sick in my twenties, I was pretty normal before then. Although I had other hang ups like so many ânormsâ do.
the desire to drink as a social lubricant for example. Now I canât relate to that. I just want to be well.
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Ya, my life had already spiraled straight to the bottom before I became MI. That was just the azz-kicker at the end. I had lost everything and was living in a shelter. As some sort of cosmic joke, I went psycho an ended up in the ward. My car got repoâd while I was in there and I was penniless. My oleâ bitch of a father took me in, thank God. So I live with him, collect SSDI and go to school. He loved me enough to take me in so Iâll take it even though he doesnât understand.
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Schizoaffective is reckoned by most researchers to have a better prognosis than schizophrenia and worse than bipolar with psychosis.
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Is it a good idea to rank one mental illness against another mental illness? We all have it hard, and hard is not relative, hard is hard. So maybe we should all commiserate that we all have it hard.
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Truth.
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