I've been having a lot of hallucinations (tactile, auditory, visual, and olfactory) for the past month, and I've also been completely stable bipolar wise, so my pdoc (who is a jerk, but that's besides the point) wants me to get a brain scan, and if I don't have neurological problems then I'm most likely going to be diagnosed schizoaffective.
I think if I hadn't been on 3 mood stabilizers, 3 antipsychotics, and a bunch of other stuff for the past almost 3 years then I may have been having more hallucinations then too. Now I'm just on one antipsychotic and I still have hallucinations on a pretty daily basis. I have some paranoia, but it's not too bad, and I don't mind the hallucinations at all, because the auditory ones are usually quiet and the other ones are just kind of interesting. So I don't want to go on any more meds if my diagnosis changes. I feel more normal now than I have since I got diagnosed with bipolar and immediately got put on so many meds.
We'll see what happens. But I might be joining your ranks soon.
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Diagnoses: Bipolar I, GAD, binge eating disorder (or something), substance abuse, and ADHD.
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.” ― Aristotle
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