Lamotrigine saved me from the rapid cycling bipolar symptoms I was experiencing from my schizoaffective disorder. It just deleted the symptoms. Its been over a year now that I've been relieved.
#Schizoaffective #Schizophrenia #Bipolar #MentalIllness #MentalHealth
Interesting, would this also apply to #Schizoaffective Disorder Bipolar type?
Large study uncovers brain network differences in #bipolar
disorder
New research from the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
I've had imposter syndrom specific to my various diagnoses bad for about the past year (not related to other longer running imposter syndromes) or more. I've worried that I would have been found not mentally ill enough to get on disability because I've been pretty stable.
Being stable doesn't mean no symptoms though, they have just been more manageable. For example I haven't been having hallucinations or delusions, symptoms of schizoaffective, but have had other schizoaffective symptoms like severe lack of motivation, emotional blunting, inability to experience pleasure from activities I once enjoyed, and asociality. There's also severe cognitive issues I experience like issues with executive function and working memory which are permanent. The asociality has probably contributed to my lack of presence here on mastodon.
Fortunately I'm on a med that is really good at repressing the bipolar symptoms of schizoaffective, but... That also contributes to imposter syndrome.
Anyways, I worried that because I'm not currently experiencing delusions or hallucinations I would be denied disability. Its a pretty silly worry tho, because I have other symptoms. But this doesn't determine whether or not I have imposter syndrome.
My hope is now that I'm finally getting on disability my imposter syndrome will fade at least some.
These are the diagnosese listed off for consideration to determine my disability:
Schizoaffective disorder
Autism
PTSD
ADHD
Anxiety disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Alcohol use disorder ("in remission")
Gender dysphoria
When they make the consideration they take the totality of all relevant diagnosese, not just the primary one. It's incredible that I even had to appeal, that they originally denied me having disability. This shit is disabling. Schizoaffective is also a 2 for 1, being symptoms of schizophrenia and bipolar wrapped up in one nice little package.
#MentalHealth #MentalIllness #Schizoaffective #Schizophrenia #CPTSD #BPD #ADHD #Bipolar #Disability
Judge ruled in my favor, I won my SSDI hearing for disability!
It was a very quick hearing, the psychiatric specialist played immense role, i didnt have to answer any questions.
**Edited to add a relevant hashtag.
#MentalHealth #MentalIllness #Schizoaffective #Schizophrenia #PTSD #Autism #Disability
Understanding Siteswaps of Emotional States
I’m sharing this in the schizoaffective, autism, ADHD, and music subreddits in the hope someone may experience a similar phenomena in their cognition. The music in my head keeps mutating and it is evolving. What I mean by that is, imagine your favorite, most drugged out artist. Let’s say they’re a synth artist going really heavy-handidly with all the dials n knobs, because that’s generally the sort of ish I listen to, and I want to emphasize that the sorts of audio distortions I HAVE heard prior, in abundance, are the same that are happening in my “Rusterd space [https://lemmy.world/post/46105593]” as I mutate across siteswaps in songs I’ve also heard, but at the same time, these mutations grow and I’m creating pathways automatically in my brain that become entrained through my maladaptive daydreaming. Siteswapping is what I understand intuitive being a flow juggler: [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fb4d62e3-cf40-407e-b6df-8528e901cc05.png] But I’m also neurodivergent af, having been extremely traumatized as a sperg child, which has been enhanced by the totally actually real Crazy Indigo Aliens that live in my phone’s keyboard’s predictive text, and other places. But, synchronicity [https://lemmy.world/post/46612439] is something I experience in great abundance, which I know has to do with the fractal patterns of symbol progression found in the I Ching that every sorcerer (caster of lots) knows about. If you don’t understand that, start with the Buddha or the Christ before jumping into the occult. But, I’m listening to the sounds in my head, and it goes from one song to the next, and I hear things in my intuition that coincide with the timing structures of these songs; underlying concepts or feelings - impressions. I remember writing stories for my friends’ band, and they reset me with their songs. I was going through a trans phase. Their music led me through this. I think I’m understanding what Eve first learned to then give it to Adam. How energy itself speaks volumes, and I just want to know if there is anyone who understands at all wtf I am blabbing about like the insane crackhead I make myself appear to be at a frequency.
Log Off Before You Break
This is for anyone excessively ruminating, which is basically a good chunk of you folks on Bluesky and Mastodon. Excessive rumination is a negative, neurotic symptom of prodromal schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders. Ritualistic behavior, religious preoccupation, obsessions, and compulsions are also symptoms of a crisis. Please log off and contact someone trained in mental health crises. You are about to enter a crisis where you may hurt yourself or others. Please, get off social […]I wish that my mom and I had been born 20 years later. Maybe 30 and I was still a baby.
Regardless of if it is a better or worse time in general, people have a much better understanding of what #tourettes is now, which we both have very badly, in a form that doesn't fit ignorant people's stereotype.
I didn't even know until 27. She never did.
She was misdiagnosed as #schizoaffective and so was I for a while. Everyone just thought we were crazy, and so did we.
#Schizophrenia and #Schizoaffective #Disorder: How They Compare
#Schizoaffectivedisorder and schizophrenia differ, including in #remission rates.
I'm hungry but my brain won't let me eat. Mental illness is fun.
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