I have no idea how to name this, but, recently I had stumbled across this diagnosis, and it’s messing with me.
When I was 17 my therapist and psychiatrist diagnosed me with schizophrenia, but very soon switched it to Bipolar 1 with psychotic features. Mood stabilizers and antipsychotics DO work on me but… I’ve never thought I’m bipolar.
I feel upon the word Schizoaffective disorder, and it’s describes me and my experiences incredibly well.
There’s aspects of Bipolar disorder that I resonate with of course, such as low and high episodes. But on a more regular basis… idk… I don’t think Bipolar disorder makes you see things, smell things, hear and feel things that simply, are not real. Especially on a more regular basis (it isn’t 24/7 BUT VERY normal.)
I don’t know if my diagnosed bipolar disorder causes me to find signs in almost everything, even if there aren’t signs.
There’s a lot more, and I’d never self diagnose, I just wanted to babble about it I guess. There’s a lot I need to learn still, but I’m just… idk it’s really weird.
Could anyone here talk about their experience? I’m asking only for diagnosed people to comment their experiences. I don’t particularly trust self diagnosed people.