Another Diagnosis?

I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in the year 1982. And that's the only us that the doctors have addressed over the years. Someone recently suggested that they may suffer from some kind of other disorder. Is anyone familiar with this scenario. I go outside to do yard work and suddenly I want to come back in the house because I'm afraid Neighbors are going to be criticizing me thinking that I'm doing things in the wrong way. I try to force myself to stay out but the feelings just get stronger that maybe they're laughing at me saying I'm doing the work all wrong and I'm beginning to feel humiliated and embarrassed so I go in. Someone mentioned it could be some kind of anxiety disorder or social whatever or disorder. Another thing is living in Florida I always had passes to Disney and SeaWorld and I never had a problem grabbing my camera and going to the parks all by myself and not feeling any anxiety but when I'm in another kind of place like in a room with other people I become extremely nervous. I think maybe at the theme parks I know that nobody's going to walk up to me and try to engage me in a conversation but in other situations I feel far more threatened. One of the worst things is if I'm in a waiting room and all the seats Irene Rose such as urine one row and directly across from you there's another row facing straight at you. I try very hard to avoid situations or someone might try to engage me in a conversation.

I really think only a professional could give you a qualified answer to the question you are asking. I don't think anyone here could give a formal diagnoses without being qualified and having a session with you. On that note you can always look into other forms of schizophrenia (such as schizoaffective) and also symptoms of anxiety. Hope you find the answer you are looking for and that you have a good day!

1982 was a while ago and the diagnostic criteria has changed since then. So maybe you need a re-evaluation. I’d definitely see a professional since none of us can diagnose you here

Oh my good Lord! I just reread my post at the top and I cannot believe what happened. I was using voice typing because it's easier for me than to type with my fingers and a lot of my words were changed and some of the things don't make any sense at all. How embarrassing. So sorry about that. I should have taken the time to reread the post that I wrote and now I sure wish I had.

It’s okay, that’s a mistake anyone can make There’s an edit option though (if you haven’t known it yet). Simply just click the edit button below the post that you want to edit, but it can only be done within few hours since you posted.

I'm not sure if you're asking if you can have sz with another diagnosis, like social anxiety, or if you could've been misdiagnosed with sz and actually have social anxiety, but either are possible. As others have said, you would need to be evaluated in person by a professional to know that.

It's worth considering (IMO) what value a change in diagnosis, or the addition of another diagnosis would have for you. People do differ, both patients and pdocs, on whether they find it helpful to diagnose multiple things, or whether it's best to keep it simple.

Some people like having everything labeled because it validates all of their different difficulties. For some diagnoses, you need that specific label to open up a specific treatment pathway. However, other people don't want a 'grocery list' of labels attached to themselves, and/or pdocs don't see the value of adding an additional label when the first label already encompasses that issue.

For example, my pdoc, and others that I've read about on the bipolar forum off the top of my head, thinks that anxiety is such a common feature of both bipolar and sz, that there's no need to formally diagnose it. He would be happy to prescribe anxiety medication without formally diagnosing the anxiety on top of bp/sz. That suits me to be honest. I could probably get a diagnosis of social anxiety disorder if I wanted, but I don't see the value in it for me because I already have a multitude of self-help techniques that I use to manage it, and I wouldn't want medication for it. And I don't like the idea of adding another label to my identity. But others would want it formally diagnosed for any number of reasons. It really is a personal preference, but I think that it's worth considering what would be the pros and cons of it beforehand.

All the best

*Willow*