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Feb 13, 2016, 10:26 PM
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Im a little confused on the type thing. Does this mean i have schhizophrenia and bipolar? Do i have bipolar disorder at all if i am diagnosed schizoaffective? Can anyone help me figure out what my diagnosis means? The only way. Ive heard it described to me is its like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder had a little baby. Can someone explain that further?
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#2
Feb 14, 2016, 12:03 AM
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With Bipolar you have mood swings high and low. In either High or low you can have psychotic features. With bipolar there are moments of stability where there's no psychotic symptoms. With schizoaffective when a bipolar or depressed person is stable they still have psychosis.
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#3
Feb 14, 2016, 11:29 AM
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It's basically having bipolar disorder, but outside of mood episodes you still have psychosis (DSM states psychosis must last at least 2 weeks with stable mood for sza)
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| ickydog2006, Tsunamisurfer, VR-80
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#4
Feb 14, 2016, 05:36 PM
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My pdoc explained it by saying bipolar people only have psychosis during mania or depression, while schizoaffective people can have psychosis when mania or depression is absent. However, he says schizoaffective is better than schizophrenia, which I suppose means not as severe, maybe, or perhaps psychosis is not as long lasting? I'm not sure what he meant, exactly. Some other people I talked to on the forums said that they've been told schizoaffective people supposedly have more insight than schizophrenic people.
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| Olanza-what?, Sometimes psychotic, Tsunamisurfer
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#5
Feb 15, 2016, 03:17 PM
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Going by DSM requirements, the psychosis has to last 6 months to be schizophrenia, schizophrenia symptoms that last from 1-6months would be schizophreniform disorder, under a month would be brief psychotic disorder. The psychosis in schizoaffective has to be 2+ weeks without overlapping with moments in a mood episode.
It's generally considered that when it comes to functioning schizophrenia<schizoaffective<bipolar. I'm unsure about insight when it comes to each disorder, but it would make sense that the average schizoaffective patient is more insightful than schizophrenia patients. I would say that's a generalization rather than rule though. |
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| dillpickle1983, Nix, Tsunamisurfer
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Mar 23, 2016, 06:41 PM
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As I've put it to so many people because I have Schizoaffective disorder Bipolar type as well. It's like having Schizophrenia and Bipolar wrapped into one package. Even when your moods are stable you'll have psychotic features like hallucinations and paranoia. For me, the paranoia leads to a depression that Bipolar can't seem to give me. I literally want to die. When I get depressed from the mood swings I might want to die but it's not as bad.
You might also miss out on one of the common mood swings from Bipolar. I don't get angry hardly ever except for reasonable reasons to be angry. For you, it might be different. You might get angry because that's how your swings work. For people who have bipolar they have 3 swings. Anger. Depression. Manic Happy. For me I only have 2 swings. Depression and Manic Happy. |
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#7
May 18, 2016, 04:51 PM
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Some professionals say it's schizophrenia with bipolar mood swings. Other professionals say it's bipolar disorder with psychotic episodes. Basically, in my personal opinion, it's a little of both. You may not have enough of the indicators to actually "qualify" for a diagnosis of either by medical standards. Best of both worlds I suppose.  Sent from my SM-G920R4 using Tapatalk |
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Jun 22, 2016, 12:53 AM
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Schizo stands for schizophrenia and affective stands for mood. Some people with Bipolar have at least one episode with psychotic features. This doesn't automatically mean that they have schizoaffective disorder. I hope this helps. |
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Aug 04, 2016, 10:38 PM
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When the psychosis such as delusions hallucinations or disorganzed thinking and speech are constant. The mania and depression come and go but were present as soon as the psychosis began. It one thing not one starting after the other.
Symptoms started when I was 14. It wasn't that mania depression started after psychosis it started at the same time. |
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