Hi,

As the above poster wrote, I think that it would be best to get an opinion from another professional if you think that you might have been misdiagnosed. It sounds like you experienced some form of psychosis, but to get another opinion, you'd need to have a professional evaluate you and come to a conclusion as to whether or not the experience that you had was related to hypothermia. I will say that the manual that mental health professionals here in the U.S. use to diagnose schizophrenia specifies that symptoms must be present in a person for at least six months for a diagnosis of the disorder to be made, but if a person experiencing psychotic symptoms receives effective treatment shortly after the symptoms present themselves and continues to receive the treatment for the next six months, it can be hard to know if the symptoms would have continued during the six-month period without treatment. If you don't mind me asking, are you still receiving treatment of any sort? And if you're not receiving treatment, how long did you receive it for? Along the lines of what I've written, I'm not qualified to say what might have caused you to experience the things that you did during the winter of 2013/2014, but as far as schizophrenia itself is concerned, you might want to question whether or not that specific diagnosis was correct if you fully recovered from the symptoms that you experienced in less than six months and also weren't receiving any treatment during part of this time.

I hope that you'll find at least some of what I've written here to be helpful.