Schizoaffective Disorder Definition

Some with schizoaffective might has just traits of one of those two.

I don't fullfill the criteria of schizophrenia, just StPD in adittion to Bipolar II, so it depends. But accourding to the diagnostic criteria you could still give me the lable "schizoaffective".
Schizoaffective is a wide diagnisis where you can put everyone into there who are somewere in between schizophrenia and bipolar/depression. You nessecerrely don't need to have both, just traits.

Sadly very often this diagnosis gets missused by psychiatrists, who are not sure if a person has bipolar with psychotic symptoms, depression with psychotic symptoms, schizophrenia with depression or something else in this direction.

I was first diagnosed with bipolar, then paranoid schizophrenic, and now schizoaffective.
After I got off my stimulants and still encountered delusional/paranoid thing with normal mood they finalized my diagnosis.
I think schizo affective is a lil more high functioning that schizophrenia like I for the most part know when I'm experiencing a delusion even though I have a hard time of coming out of it but I do know to debate it's truthfulness and am allowed to have doubt but it never fully goes away.
I do not hallucinate. I do not remember what it was like before I started medicine. I only remember being watched 24/7 followers were everywhere creeping on me and my husband was/is n on it too and high frustration/aggravation both of which I still experience just not as bad but it's there.
I just want to be happy...truly happy and carefree it seems like those days are gone I live everyday in a constant at struggle.
I start seeing a new dr this week and really want to go back to my roots and see what my symptoms are again bc back then I was so used to feeling like I did that I thought of it as a normal experience, now that my eyes have been opened that I may really have issues instead of them being just something to joke about since my thinking was so off.
I bought some Sam e today and relacore extra both to help with mood so well c.
It just sux that the invega sustenna shot I got a month ago is suppost to stay in your system for up to a year. Ever since I started medicine I experience anhedonia which makes me want to use drugs to feel better yet being a mother of two young kids I can't afford to b messed up on dope so I just have to deal with it the best I can.
Two things I know help me feel better is going to the gym everyday and also church a couple times a week. It's really cool bc I see a bright white aura around the priests head he his so peaceful and it always seems like his message was dedicated atraight to me I it's phenomenal.
I just tried to hide my weirdness for so long that I am used to dealing with it the only thing is my uncarefreeness. Ever since I had kids everything is so serious bc I'm a parent now you know. I've got to be responsible and they take all of my energy sometimes I don't know how I do it.

Okay, I don't tell people this on here, but it's time I do.
I was diagnosed with schizoaffective in 2015 but here's the thing, I became emotionally numb in 2014.
I am to this day, experiencing little to no emotion.
Nothing is causing this, just itself. (I think it's my trauma).
Anyways in 2015 is where I developed delusions, paranoid delusions.
I had these for months and in these months I was of course numb, no mood disturbance.
They must of got "2 years" mixed up with "2 weeks" because I've been numb for 2 YEARS not 2 WEEKS.
2015 was when I started seeing a new doctor that gave me that diagnosis so ever since I've felt like she couldn't find anything exact so she just picked the best diagnosis she could find.
I have little to no emotion.
Both inside and out, meaning sometimes I feel inside but don't react, and other times I feel nothing inside and out.
When I act out my emotions it lasts in seconds or sometimes minutes.
I have good impulse control.
I'm literally schizo-no-affective. No affectiveness.
And just to warn people I do not want anyone saying I'm "depressed."
I know what depression feels like so I don't have it anymore.
It just needed to be said before I get triggered haha.
I hate the world more than myself oddly.

Hi how are you? I'm new here and trying to find someone to chat with you seem like you know your stuff I have been recently diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and wanting to know more about it can you help?

I like that term: dysthymic schizophrenia. So much more descriptive than schizoaffective. It describes a schizophrenia with a changing mood state. I hope they do what they are planning to do and change the name schizoaffective to dysthymic schizophrenia.

-- Thu Mar 02, 2017 6:20 pm --

I am diagnosed schizoaffective also. And I also am schizo no affective. But, as a Dr. once explained to me, the reason why I have no emotions, is a combination of my schizophrenia and my antidepressant that I take regularly that masks my emotions. He said that he was sure that without my anti depressant, my sad feelings would probably return. I lost my only child, a son, to suicide, when he was the age of 30, five and a half years ago.

A psychiatrist once explained to me that having schizoaffective is the same as having schizophrenia and bipolar at the same time. There is nothing confusing about this. It just means you have a thought disorder as well as a mood disorder.

Yeah, I feel that big words are thrown about, without imparting any wisdom what any of the big words mean, what the symptoms of the diseases are, how you actually separate diseases from each other... maybe psychiatry is too complicated for the sufferer to understand... or else the divisional boundaries between diseases are wrongly drawn up.

Apparently there exists a statistical manual, which identifies mental diseases n disorders. Why can't someone on this forum tear out the pages "schizophrenia" and "schizoaffectation" and just paste them on these forum pages?

Because I don't think it speaks too much to any of us to say that "schizoaffective disorder is nothing else but schizophrenia mixed with a little bit of schizoaffective disorder."

If only a very small percentage of people are correctly diagnosed with schizoaffective, then why are so many people diagnosed schizoaffective? I tend to think that this is incorrect. I've been diagnosed schizoaffective for over 24 years by many different psychiatrists, so, I tend to think that whoever said this is wrong.

I don't identify with stigmatizing psychiatric labels. My experiences with psychiatrists have been negative, I find therapists more useful. The worst is self stigmatizing, the society is broken, and the likes of psychiatry and the people who support it are no better. I guess its where peoples hearts are. A profession without few critics and are silenced and can come get you against your will and drug you. Its a gross violation of my human rights, and that is the problem with the profession. No tolerance for altered states or the diversity of human behaviour. That is my rant. Thanks.