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Old Apr 01, 2014, 01:03 PM
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I have a psychiatric nurse practitioner. My insurance won't cover psychiatrists. She's the one that said I'm schizoaffective, and I don't think that's true. I have never hallucinating before or had auditory hallucinations. I'm so confused now. When I was in the hospital I did a whole bunch of testing and was diagnosed bipolar 1 and PTSD. The pdoc I saw was excellent. Now I have had delusions before and strong paranoia at times.
That's really weird that you're required to have an np---I'm surprised that's allowed under the new obamacare laws...are you sure that's the current policy? Maybe its something in your state...psych nps aren't really common here...

As far as your diagnosis the meds for bipolar with psychosis and sza are pretty much the same so it probably doesn't make a huge difference...I mean I know I'd rather have some sort of concrete answer myself but it doesn't seem to work that way because our consciousness doesn't easily fit textbook definitions...
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