Hi, I'm Kristina as most of you know and I was recently diagnosed with Schizoaffective disorder on the 25th of June. I saw a Psychiatrist at my IOP program (Intensive Out-Patient) and he diagnosed me as having Schizoaffective Disorder. I am really worried about myself because I am going through a severe Manic episode and I have been staying up a lot later and not getting much sleep. My program director at my IOP program forced me to stay at the program on Thursday when I didn't feel good and I was going off on everybody. I was getting really irritable around people and at things people said. I was crying almost the whole time I was there. Then when I got home I didn't have support from my girlfriend and I ended up in the hospital because I was really really really not feeling well and severely manic, like the most manic I have ever been. The doctors at the hospital wouldn't prescribe me meds for my mania, they just wanted to make sure I wasn't getting sick because I had a temp of 100.0 degrees. They were purposely ticking me off because I had taken my meds and they made me to where I couldn't stay awake. And the doctor kept having a nurse or someone put some kind of crap up my nose to wake me up so I could go home in a cab because for some reason they wouldn't send me home when I was so tired and I kept falling asleep.

Here's some questions I have about Schizoaffective Disorder:

1)Do people who have Schizoaffective disorder have a lot of paranoia about totally insane things like aliens coming to abduct them all the time (which is the kind of paranoia I usually have)?

2)Do people who have Schizoaffective Disorder talk to themselves (or mumble under their breath) a lot especially right before they go to sleep (because I do that like every night and no matter what medication I'm on it never goes away)?

Do people who have Schizoaffective Disorder hear voices/see things a lot? And does it get worse as they get older?