I am sorry that I don't know enough about schizophrenia to answer your question....& then again, it seems that even the professionals aren't real good at initially identifying what is going on either.

I guess the one thing I might think of initially, rather than adding to your stress level the fear that schizophrenia is coming back , would be to look at your anxiety level......all the things that are new in your life over the past year (marriage, baby, pursuing a supervisory position at work, working hard to be successful in your career). You have alot going on in your life & I have found that when I end up overloaded (even though I don't realize how overloaded I am), I end up with my mind doing just about everything you have explained. I end up focused so much internally that I find it hard to express myself to others.

I know that anxiety may not be the answer, but if it were me, I would hold onto the idea that the past Dx of schizophrenia was misdiagnosed. Personally, I would observe myself for a while without jumping to the conclusion of schizophrenia coming back into your life. I have found it hard for pdocs to Dx conditions initially when symptoms show up. I have gone through pdocs trying to figure out what was happening to me several times during the past 12 years. When I first had to leave my job because of anxiety attacks (I hated the position I had at work & was trapped....only way out was to leave on medical leave of absense. The anxiety over the first year turned into depression & then into suicidal issues that continued for years. Along with that came anorexia problems. They couldn't figure out what name to label me with. Things settled down about 3 years ago until my Mother was Dx'ed with cancer. Because of her poor judgement alot of other issues, a home care RN got involved & I caught her stealing my mothers ID. I ended up going through a horrible trauma & with stress, I lost too much weight again. The pdoc that worked in the medical hospital I was being treated in insisted that it was anorexia again....insisting that I needed to be in an ED treatment center. I tried to find help & the placed I talked to clued me into the fact that is was the stress I was going through & not "body image".....I had gone through a trauma, but because I was being treated while going through the trauma, it couldn't be DX'ed as Post Tramatic Stress Disorder.....it was too soon for that DX.

What I am trying to get across is that in my opinion, I would try to focus on the most important things in your life, one thing at a time. I would put the stress of thinking that you are in the relaps of schizophrenia into the way back part of your mind. Once you get more settled into your new life of being husband, father, & career person, then if your symptoms don't go away after your life settles into a pattern, that would be the time when you need to go after help to deal with those issues. Of course, one very important issue would be that if your symptoms end up much worse & get in the way of your daily family & work life, that would be the time to deal with it immediately. Sometimes the more we worry about something, the worse it gets too. It is important to put the things in your life into perspective & like my pdoc constantly tells me.....take care of 1 thing at a time as much as you can....that us usually when things fall into place & usually our worse fears don't happen when we live our lives priortizing the things in our lives.

I know that I am not a qualified pdoc & my response is based on some of the experiences I have had in my 53 years of life (the last 12 are the only ones where I have delt with my psychological issues but no schizophrenia issues). I hope that maybe something might help you a little if possible.

Welcome to Psych Central.....there are many people here who have had much more experience with your issues.....& I am sure they will be responding to your post. I hope that what you are going through is just anxiety & that everything will end up great for you. Good luck with all you are doing & relax & enjoy being a daddy. You have alot going on in your life & anxiety with trying to move up at work is definitely stressful.

Best wishes to you,
Debbie