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Dec 05, 2018, 05:03 PM
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I need some clarity here. My parents were diagnosed with schiz. With me, I seem to have a confusing set of symptoms. My pdoc insists I have schizoaffective bp type and I do agree with bipolar, but I only get psychosis during manic episodes so would that be bp 1 instead? Then there is the fact I've been ill since I was a child, I mean severely ill... My pdoc said I just developed my mental illness as a child but I had symptoms that resembled ADHD and the autism spectrum. But would a childhood mental illness look like that? Ans I know symptoms of different disorders overlap, I need more info on schiz vs. autism, childhood bp vs. ADHD, etc...
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Dec 08, 2018, 10:16 AM
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As far as I know schizoaffective is psychosis during extreme manic or deppressive states. Where as schizophrenia is a constant state of psychosis to some degree that only medication can relieve. I wasn't diagnosed till I was 38, but I've had the illness all my life. No one caught it unfortunately. I am schizoaffective bipolar type
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Dec 08, 2018, 10:30 AM
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Honestly if you went to two different pdoc s and asked you’d get two different answers, it’s best just to treat the symptoms....
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Dec 08, 2018, 10:37 AM
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“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” -St. Francis of Assisi Diagnosis: Schizoaffective disorder Bipolar type PTSD Social Anxiety Disorder Anorexia Binge/Purge type |
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Dec 08, 2018, 09:15 PM
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My son has always had "issues". His Dx has changed so much in the passed 8 years. From ADHD, Autism, Anxiety, depression, Impulse control disorder, bipolar.... He is currently getting re-diagnosed.
I didn't even know I had psychosis. I always though yeah I have odd thoughts but not to that level. I thought my "loud" head, sensitivity to sounds was a migraine . Turns out that's not a migraine. So I didn't mention that. It took me a bunch of pdocs hovering on mood disorder NOS or Bipolar disorder to figure out I might be SzA. Whatever it is I've had it from day one.
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Dec 08, 2018, 09:19 PM
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Yeah, sometimes the diagnosis does not matter as much as the treatment. If anti-psychotics work for you, I would just go ahead and take them no matter what the diagnosis. It can be hard to diagnose mental illness.
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