News of Schizoaffective Disorder

I take abilify and lamictal --------and am really down, so i'm trying zoloft. Anyone have thoughts on zoloft?

my name is alex

i get up a lot and have real disorganized thoughts, sometimes thinking from thought to thought to things people said to me, extreme negativity, self-doubt, and anxiety.

I have hobbies and coping skills, and the meds help but they are high doses.

I take a low dose of effexor and pretty high dose of seroquel, plus stuff for seizures. its very hard dealing with this.

I will start by saying I love my wife of 13 years dearly.
In 2010 they diagnosed her with paranoid schizophrenia, started her on lithium and xanax, i forget the other drugs. My wife has had a love affair with xanax since her teens. i assumed she was pill seeking and they misdiagnosed her. I hated her drug issues but loved her enough to let the proffesionals do their job.
As I look back, knowing ...

Is it normal to have breakthrough symptoms? I'm on the highest dose of abilify and 3 mg of vraylar together. I still get paranoia , It's the one symptom that doesn't seem to go away.

I got 5150d 3 months ago for being suicidal, but I did not know I was to a suicidal. I just thought I was trying to fulfill a mission sent to me from God that required me to be on ...

I was diagnosed with full on schizophrenia at one point.
However, now I have a better grip on things.

My aspiration is to dream about story making and writing.
I had a character I made (let’s call him D.)

I was afraid because he came out as a hallucination and caused me tremendous “heartache.”
Now that I know he is most definitely just a character, I wish to move further in his development.
However I’m ...

I had my first suicide attempt in July and I still feel sick...I am haunted by guilt and an hallucination that occurred during my attempt. I saw myself taunting me but in the form of a demon. Shadowy with firey red eyes telling me I couldn't even kill myself right. My counselor told me the devil preys on us when we are our weakest. I don't know if this was an hallucination or the form ...

After the first psycosis back in 2015 when I had 20 years old due to weed consumption in the past and smartshop drugs also, I began to experience a gradual feeling of emptiness on my mind, much more quieter mind and internal monologue, and also lack of feeling emotions which is distressing because I can't reach my soul but can express it to other people. Now I'm 23. Things began to feel in other perspective ...

Does this sound typical of schizoaffective to you all? I"m currently in between diagnoses. I'm not asking for anyone to pretend to be a doctor, just to see if anyone experiences similar things to me.

For me I go back and forth between not doing well, and doing well. I'll get really lost in these really bizarre delusions and although sometimes I can still be functional, there have been many times I've lost jobs or ...

My psychiatrist has decided to change my antidepressant from fluvoxamine to zoloft. I'm quite worried though about the transition and that i might relapse once my fluvoxamine has been reduced. What have peoples experiences been with zoloft? Has anyone gone through a change in meds and has advice on what it was like and how to cope?

Do you feel like your social skills become impaired when you are psychotic? I feel I am able to socialise better when my psychosis is being managed and under control...