FAQ/Help |
Calendar |
Search |
Princess Tutu
Erti
is rocking out to babymetal
Member Since: Jun 2011
Location: Nowhere
Posts: 7,912
2,894 hugs
given |
#1
Anyone here feel like they've been misdiagnosed with schizophrenia? I feel like my doctors have made a mistake. i don't think i'm psychotic at all.
|
Reply With Quote |
Anonymous40796, redCanine3669, Sometimes psychotic, stayingafloat
|
Threadtastic Postaholic
sarahsweets
has no updates.
Member Since: Dec 2018
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 6,006
(SuperPoster!)
192 hugs
given |
#2
What behaviors of yours did they say were related to szchiophrenia?
__________________ "I carried a watermelon?" President of the no F's given society. |
Reply With Quote |
peterb18062
|
Princess Tutu
Erti
is rocking out to babymetal
Member Since: Jun 2011
Location: Nowhere
Posts: 7,912
2,894 hugs
given |
#3
They never said...
|
Reply With Quote |
redCanine3669
|
Member
stayingafloat
has no updates.
Member Since: Oct 2014
Location: -
Posts: 217
127 hugs
given |
#4
A lot of times I thought I'm misdiagnosed because I am able to behave and feel normally, never hallucinate, hearing voices or have delusions that defy the law of nature.
My only gripe that has to do with schizophrenia is suspicions, paranoia, anxiety and uncontrolled anger. All can be traced back to numerous bad past experiences that changed my thinking habits and the way I perceive things. |
Reply With Quote |
Threadtastic Postaholic
sarahsweets
has no updates.
Member Since: Dec 2018
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 6,006
(SuperPoster!)
192 hugs
given |
#5
That’s the kicker with mental illness. It’s the only illness who’s primary symptoms are convincing you you don’t have anything wrong going on.
__________________ "I carried a watermelon?" President of the no F's given society. |
Reply With Quote |
Desoxyn
|
Member
Under*Over
has no updates.
Member Since: Mar 2018
Location: USA
Posts: 457
177 hugs
given |
#6
I wonder tbh. Id like to figure it out once and for all but I fell like to do thag would be dangerous. But I really do wonder if I really am that sick. I function a lot better than people with schizophrenic spectrum disorders are supposed to so I just wonder if it might just be something else
|
Reply With Quote |
Princess Tutu
Erti
is rocking out to babymetal
Member Since: Jun 2011
Location: Nowhere
Posts: 7,912
2,894 hugs
given |
#7
I'm not homeless and ranting at people on the streets but i'm also living at home and not working and collecting SSI... Not because i want to but because i keep going into hospitals all the time to even be able to work. I really don't think i'm sick tho.
|
Reply With Quote |
Princess Tutu
Erti
is rocking out to babymetal
Member Since: Jun 2011
Location: Nowhere
Posts: 7,912
2,894 hugs
given |
#8
mainly said i was delusional and hallucinating. I don't think i am.
|
Reply With Quote |
Guest
Anonymous43918
has no updates.
Edit
Posts: n/a
|
#9
I'm pretty sure I'm misdiagnosed right now. For the longest time I was diagnosed bipolar 1 and they just changed it during/after my last hospitalization
|
Reply With Quote |
Sometimes psychotic
|
Legendary
HALLIEBETH87
Tired
Member Since: Oct 2004
Location: usa
Posts: 11,175
2,739 hugs
given |
#10
I was dxd bipolar 1 with psychotic features the last two years until last week when I left IP with a new diagnosis
Of schizoaffective bipolar type. __________________ Bipolar 1 w/psychotic features or schizoaffective bipolar type PTSD generalized anxiety OCD celexa, prazosin, Lybalvi and prn zyprexa and klonopin |
Reply With Quote |
Veteran Member
sophiebunny
has no updates.
Member Since: Jan 2019
Location: Pittsburgh
Posts: 570
77 hugs
given |
#11
I had a psychologist who diagnosed me with schizophrenia without ever consulting my psychiatrist. I was raised by schizophrenics and suffered a lot of trauma because of it. Somehow my psychologist's diagnosis got into my electronic medical record and every time I had a unrelated physician's appointment the first thing they did was ask me about my schizophrenia. It was so traumatizing I stopped going to physicians all together. I was so afraid my psychologist was right, ie. I was the people who raised me, I was terrified to ask my psychiatrist. I carried the diagnosis around for a long time, silent about it. Finally, I got the courage to ask my psychiatrist. He was stunned and pretty angry this had been done to me. He reassured me I had bipolar 1 disorder with psychosis and PTSD with psychosis but I was definitely not schizophrenic. He tried to clean up my electronic records so I wasn't traumatized going to see physicians, but every once and a while I get a new Dr. who asks and treats me like I am.
Moral of the story...be careful who's diagnosing you and always ask for confirmation from a psychiatrist. MDs are the only people with the knowledge base to distinguish psychotic disorders from each other. |
Reply With Quote |