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Old Jul 29, 2014, 08:15 PM
FreedomFighter FreedomFighter is offline
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So I have all these symptoms that basically appear to be psychotic symptoms and so I thought I was going into psychosis or developing schizophrenia or had schizoaffective disorder because I've been dealing with mental health problems for quite some time. Anyways so I went to see my psychiatrist yesterday and she says that my symptoms actually present to seem more like epilepsy or a neurological illness. I looked in a medical textbook and online at epilepsy and neurological problems and my symptoms and basically everything can be explained by having frontal lobe epilepsy with/or a brain tumour. Now I know this is the worst case scenario, that is if I have a malignant brain tumour, but I am so scared. I know a lot about mental health/psychiatry/psychology and treatments regarding mental illness but I know very little in comparison about medical illnesses. My doctor ordered an EEG for me, which hopefully they will call me soon about, but now I want an MRI too to look for any abnormalities. I really just want to get a bunch of tests ASAP to find out what is wrong with me. I'm seeing her again next Wednesday and I'm seeing my general practiser on this Thursday because of other reasons.. I don't know what to do, and the worst case scenario just keeps going through my mind.
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Anxiety Disorder (not otherwise specified)
Psychotic Symptoms
Major Depressive Disorder
Recovering Anorexia
Just got re-diagnosed, many other previous diagnosis.

Meds:
Abilify
Perphenazine
Seroquel (prn)

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