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Originally Posted by Blue_Bird
I'm diagnosed with schizoaffective bipolar type. Schizoaffective is when you have psychotic symptoms even when your mood is stable and you're not in a manic or depressive episode at the time
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I have bipolar 1 w/ psychotic features. I have the flat affect and flat vocal tone that you typically see in patients with schizophrenia/schizoaffective, as well as hallucinations/delusions outside of mood episodes, but I don't meet the other criteria for SzA or Sz. Psychologists have said that my thinking is linear when you ignore the hallucinations and delusions, so they said SzA is not an appropriate fit.