[worthit]

I'm so sorry you have no support, kimical. You've got us here. He's just uneducated.

[Blue_Bird]

Not good, my appointments can't come soon enough

[kimical]

Thank you worthit.

I understand how you feel blue bird.

I called today to see if I could go to the arts and crafts group only to find out it was almost over on the plus side they put me on the list for next week.

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[worthit]

I got called into the carpet at work and my boss said that I didn't step up to the plate as a team member regarding babysitting 5 children. I was horrified and told him I can't babysit five children alone. It's too overwhelming. Then I decided to go in and talk to him in private about being schizoaffective, it was a good conversation. he will look into it and will read about it and hopefully understand more about what I go through. I appreciated his confidence. Felt good about opening up and sharing my diagnosis. I know he will keep it confidential.

[deeronjepsuhn]

It's been a little over a month off any anti-psychotic. I've tried all available generic anti-psychotics except Geodon, and all of them just haven't been right. Medicated or unmedicated, I sometimes still experience visual hallucinations, and minor auditory hallucinations. I had sound distortion when I was medicated. I don't have that unmedicated. I sometimes hear my name called at work, or some other stuff. I've been reading an The Kybalion because my friend is reading it. And it's a little far-fetched. I've been doing amazing though. Thinking about getting on an anti-depressant. Made a thread about it. OTher than that I'm great. I will update in a month or many, Idk, but yep.

[Blue_Bird]

Appointment with my T tomorrow, then with my pdoc the next day. Hoping I can start an antidepressant in addition to my other meds.

[avlady]

My son od'd and i ended up in the hospital with General Anxiety they told me, then let us go. the doc would not admit me the next day as i think he thought i was making it up, about me myself getting sick or having a reaction to the night before. If he had seen the shape my son was in in the hospital the night before he would have involuntary admit me i'm sure. I was having an acute anxiety attack and i felt like no one was listening to me. Need less to say i was let go, but someday i hope they are in my shoes. I can't even explain it but i think i had a nervous breakdown. Does any one here even know what a nervous breakdown is? I couldn't even eat. sleep or even just drink water and they knew this too. I am also coming off of hydrocodone but after that i ended taking my last one tonight and i feel great now. Please pray my primary doc will give me a script for hydrocodone today and thank you all.!!!!!!!

[InkHeart]

I'm not common here, but I was just confirmed that it's schizoaffective. I'm... Depressed about the idea, because I'm mentally sick. I hate it, and want to rage.

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[vmsmith]

Hello all, I am new on the forums... Checking in.

[worthit]

Hello. To InkHeart,just try to understand it's an illness. Just like diabetes. Only it's a brain illness. Schizoaffective here,too. I denied,cried my eyes out at first then educated myself and read a lot of books. That helped. Good luck.

[HoboofOside]

Originally Posted by dillpickle1983

Check in as needed and as many times as you want!

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Just checking in, been about a month since I've been on the site. Have had a lot of other obligations that have worn me out. I'm on Abilify right now, and my doctor(s) are literally fighting the insurance company on getting it covered. But I am here and I am still kickin.

Hey Dillpickle1983

I have Schizoaffective disorder w/ Bipolar Since 6/1993, 5/1998, 6/2000
in 1/2008,1/2010 is was Schizophrenia and 7/2012 Schizophrenia
and I got a New Doctor we Talked on
Schizoaffective Disorder vs. Schizophrenia
I get paranoia, racing thoughts, manic episodes, mood swings,
voices in my head and "I get suicide thoughts now and then"

I lost my Doctor from 6/2000 to 7/2009 dues to my SSI and SSDI being
Stopped and I got my legal matters fixes outside of California
and I had to move to South Carolina.
and After I got SSDI Back in Nov/Dec 2009 I moved to San Diego, CA
in 1/2010 I got hit with a $200.00 Co-Pay and I lost my Doctor the 2nd
time in my life. and I lost my Trust in Mental Health
and I got papers from Social Security for a Review in late may2014 and
since I had no doctor they sent me to there Doctor and there Doctor
said I am no longer disabled as of 6/2014 and

I disagree with them and I ask for Appeal

I have a now Doctor and I am on Invega 6mg now
and I am going to see a Lawyer on wed 7/23/14

Tim

[FreedomFighter]

I am not officially diagnosed with Schizoaffective yet but I fit the diagnostic criteria perfectly and am hopefully getting re-diagnosed soon.. Anyways lately I have had no mood problems and life in most ways is going really good ie, amazing friends, sports, job interview, writing a book, amazing treatment team... But the past few days my psychotic symptoms are worsening and now everyday for a large portion of the day I am hallucinating(mostly visual), I am dissociating a lot, have times I literally cannot think, my friends say I'm acting different and ask me if I'm on drugs, I get confused about what's going on and what's real, bugs crawl under my skin, my memory is horrible, it's hard to speak at times and bad people are coming to get me. I hope everybody else is doing better..

[insilence]

Remember those old 80s commercials "knowing is half the battle"? I know that after testing my body and what parts of it reply vocally. I've over time silenced my annoyances. I just hope it stays that way. Good luck. Be smarter than yourself.

[worthit]

Maybe it's time to re-evaluate your treatment. Be sure to let your pdoc know all the symptoms you're experiencing and be honest and upfront with him/her.

[cokes]

Hi, new member checking in. I was diagnosed this week so my head is all over the place but I am ok really nothing psychotic going on and my mood is lifting thanks to escitalopram. So ok really

[worthit]

Welcome, glad you're doing well.

[Shmooey]

New on this thread, and likely getting a SZA depressive type diagnosis next time I see my pdoc on the 20th. I just met him a few days ago and he didn't want to label me too soon. My current diagnosis is major depression with psychotic features, but I went into the new doc's office crying about how it can be called that if the psychotic features are as bad and sometimes worse than the depression? I was promised that when they got my depression under control, the psychosis would disappear and it's only gotten stronger.

*sigh* thanks for letting me vent that.

but yeah, just want to say hello to the group since I've already posted on other threads and wanted to keep on this one.

[Atypical_Disaster]

Welcome to all the new faces here.

[Blue_Bird]

Doing wonderful, so lucky and grateful to have finally found the right combo of meds

[Hobbit House]

I'm so glad I got an appointment with my Dr. tomorrow. I need a change in my meds. I feel so paranoid, and paranoia sucks because you never know if it's real! It definitely may be real, so I'm not doing too great. My husband is making me have a good laugh though, now and then. Laughter is good medicine.

I don't know how the Dr.'s going to change my meds since he just switched me to another one about 2mths. ago. Often it seems like he's at a loss as to what to do with me, that I just have to accept that I'm as well off as I can be. I can not accept that and hope he will understand when he sees me.

right now I'm on:
Wellbutrin
Seroquel
Lamictal
Depakote
Abilify