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Schizoaffective Disorder, a conditiion originally described in the 1940s.
It was originally conceived as a third, independent entity alongside schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Its course is intermediary and considered to be more favorable than schizophrenia. .Some have suggested that schizoaffective disorder, depressive subtype, resembles more schizophrenia in course and treatment while schizoaffective disorder, manic subtype, is more like a bipolar disorder over time.

Over time diagnosis can change from, to, and back again. I am currently Bipolar type and I like it that way.

Use of street drugs (including LSD, methamphetamine and marijuana/hash/cannabis) has been linked with significantly increased probability of developing schizophrenia spectrum disorders (of which schizoaffective disorder is part) in over 30 scientific studies over the past 20 years.

I cant use marijuana without having psychedelic psychosis. It starts chill and then drops off to Dementia.


Schizoaffective Case-study -

"her family reports that she had been dancing, singing loudly, and reciting the Bible at the dinner table."

I like this case-study because its funny and the Woman has my same type of diagnosis.

I've had mixed episodes. An agitated depression is a "major depressive [episode] with superimposed hypomanic symptoms" And A dysphoric mania consists of a manic episode with depressive symptoms with persecutory delusions, racing thoughts, restlessness. Its hard to describe but I see-sawed between feeling perfectly normal (except thoughts) and then suddenly a deep blanket of depression falls on me.

To all the family:

Stop trying to fix me because you cant!!

love us, be there for us, but stop trying to fix us.

Don't take advantage of us. We are Very Very sensitive.

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It doesn't mean we're insane, flying off the handle type of people.