New here and recently diagnosed

Hi everyone,

Just a quick post to say hi and hopefully to connect with others who live with schizoaffective disorder. I've recently been diagnosed based on a recent relapse into psychosis. There is no mood changes this time, just psychosis, thus the new diagnosis (was previously BP 2). I've been prescribed Neulactil (pericyazine)...has anyone else been on this medication? I'm struggling with being in shopping centres and the constant feeling of being watched and followed. I'm paranoid about people's motivations and also paranoid about the police. My fears are somewhat based on recent events (harassment by my ex) but I'm aware that I am less able to discern what's real and what's delusion. What's that saying " just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you!"

Anyway, hi again...and Happy Holidays

Hello and welcome to the boards.
Sorry to hear about your recent relapse. Hopefully you're new medication can keep you sane and out of the hospital. I've never personally used the drug Neulactil. I hope it works for you.
I have alot of problems in public placed too. All cameras are focused on me all eyes watching me. If somone offers to do something nice for me I am always suspicious. If I were you I would try to stay far away from your ex if shes' making your symptoms worse.

Thanks for the welcome Zero

I won't be going into hospital, I have a 6 month old baby. So whatever treatment I have needs to be home-based. So far, so good...the neulactil helps a lot with the anxiety, just not doing much for delusions yet...will need some time (and dose increases).

What you wrote sounds so familiar, cameras and eyes all focused on me and being suspicious if someone does something nice. And yes, am staying far away from my ex, he doesn't know where I live.

I read a post somewhere where you were struggling with alcohol. Hope you're feeling better now and connected with someone over the holidays.

Hi, I'm new to this thing as well. You can call me Tany! As in, "there aren'TANY" haha!

After begging to be put on Independent Studies for most of high school, I realized that I thought everyone was watching me, and my every move, and I could not look people in the eyes when I was speaking to them. Because of this, I also avoided shopping centers, the DMV ect ect..

Well, drug abuse (especially the white drugs,) led me into a daze of normality, or so I thought. I have been drug free for over 5 years now, but it dramatically increased the paranoid feelings and anxiety, while at the same time decreasing my ability to leave the house, my ability to go to college, and my intelligence in general.

I was misdiagnosed with agoraphobia and post traumatic stress disorder, when I was 17 years old. My boyfriend I was living with at the time passed away about a year into the relationship, so that was really my first time I was being treated for anxiety or anything any mental illness.

Of course my primary care physician doesn't know much about mental illnesses, so she gave me Xanax and Klonopin. Now that I look back on my life, I was just a paranoid schizophrenic. I saw some UCLA doctors- in my opinion it was a waste of time, money, and gas. Here in my hometown I found a great doctor. I've been on meds he prescribed me for a little over a week and I'm already feeling better.

I have no idea what those medications are that you guys are talking about? Here's my 411:
I'm on Neurontin, Klonopin, Lamictal, Risperdal, and Ritalin. Morning, night evening, and afternoon doses vary. (I obviously don't take Ritalin in the AM.)

Any ideas for combining these by using other medications instead would be helpful!!
Thanks for listening to my Ritalin induced rant. Hope this forum works for us!