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The_little_didgee · Sep 04, 2014, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Atypical_Disaster

I know what you mean. So many of the people here who are dx'd with schizoaffective have very mild psychotic symptoms. I don't get it either. That's another reason why I don't post there much because the people there seldom talk about psychosis, which strikes me as odd.

I met a woman when I was in the hospital who claimed to have bipolar schizoaffective disorder. She was nothing like all the others I have met with the disorder. She was coherent, social and clean when she was in the hospital. She even started a relationship with another patient who was in there after he broke up with his girlfriend. It turns out she was full of **** because she was admitted every single year around Christmas time. What a convenient mental illness. Perhaps she really had bipolar disorder or SAD.

Cases like this frustrate the hell out of me. It was worse when I was younger because all I seemed to attract were personality diagnoses. After that no one ever took me seriously or my complaints were minimized.

I have a psychiatrist who doesn't want to give me a concrete diagnoses because I attend university part-time. The only thing she told me is that I have a psychotic disorder on the schizophrenia spectrum. She knows I struggle with looking after my apartment, eating properly and motivation. I don't work. How disabled do I have to be to be taken seriously? I know I have to develop an acute psychosis one more time.