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Originally Posted by EllieGreene
Can I tell you about my sons behaviors/symptoms and you can compare them to yours. My son spends a lot of time jogging around the house. After school he comes home and spends about 50% of his time jogging and laughing with music playing either out loud or through his earphones. He tries to do homework and can work for 1/2 hour but then needs to run and laugh.
He expressed delusional thinking while he wasn't on meds but now is on meds again and that has gone away. But the laughing and running constantly never goes away - especially now that schools on. He even jogs at school during his off block. This started the summer of 2014 when he was 14.
As for a dx: one psychiatrist said he was developing schizophrenia but we fired him and our new psychiatrist says he's probably on the autism spectrum and it has led to this anxiety and psychosis looking behavior.
What do you think of this?
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I am not autistic. Things I have either been diagnosed with or suggested I might have by psychiatrists: bipolar, schizoid, borderline, ptsd, anxiety, depression, schizoaffective, schizophrenia, adjustment disorder, attachment disorder....
I dont know, when I showed manic type stuff it was largely because I was also incredibly stressed and escaping an abusive home. I would leave at midnight and walk until 5am... I think I was just stuck in fight or flight. That would explain most of my life... recently I am no longer in fight or flight but just dealing with being for the first time in years... so that alone could explain why I feel strange...
I think that perhaps my personality is just different. I am an artist... And I am interested in genetic studies of schizophrenia that look at kin. The traits associated with kin who do not have the disorder sound a lot like me... It is interesting, obviously the DSM version is seriously lacking in how we conceptualize these matters.