WW_III_ANGRY wrote:Moreno wrote:WW_III_ANGRY wrote:Pretty much symptom free, I hear faint voices now and then, mixing up with actual words from people in a crowd.
Symptom free on meds or without. And hell, if you are pretty much symptom free, even on meds, that diagnosis sounds off.
Without. Its possible for the diagnosis to be the case.. after all, PTSD is temporary. I do have minor symptoms that essentially do not affect me, because I know what they are. Its not gone completely. There is no psychologist who will tell you that Schizo Affective disorder will be permanent, because that is unknown. Sure I may be a rare case, or my diagnosis is off. If so.. what else could it be?
The two together is a fairly heavy diagnosis, even if, yes, each can be not present. Hell, it could even be something as banal as an extreme allergy to something that is rare in the environment but someting people occasionally are exposed to TO a mineral/vitamin deficiency, like, say, b 12 deficiency....
During the course of disease, mental disorders can occur. These include irritability, focus/concentration problems and depressive state with suicidal tendencies.
At levels only slightly lower than normal, a range of symptoms such as fatigue, depression, and poor memory may be experienced.[2] However, these symptoms by themselves are too nonspecific to diagnose deficiency of the vitamin.
Vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause symptoms of mania and psychosis, fatigue, memory impairment, irritability, depression and personality changes.[3][4][3][5][4][6]
In general psychiatric symptoms referable to deficiency of B12 are thought to be reversible when vitamin B12 has been repleted. However, mental symptoms which do not reverse may be attributed to other causes, and are difficult to prove were as a direct result of vitamin deficiency.[/i]
to the black box of a psychotic break with mild to nearly non-existent aftershocks. Also Schizoaffective is really a kind of black box diagnosis (bipolar is less so). IOW it is a very wide range of symptoms out of which you need a certain core number. It is not as if they really know what it is in your body.
Anyway, I am not trying to put forward substitutes you should consider and mull over, just pleased you are symptom and med free.
I got pretty messed up by a break-up change of setting. I was ok with the break up, then was in a place I had not been in before - not a classic cross cultural change - and bam, I was, to use lay terms, nuts. and I was not really focused on the break up, but with hindsight, later, this was a big factor. The people I was around were very tightassed - think something like corporate Japan - and this also threw me way off kilter.
anyway, that's all not here nor there.
edit: PTSD is temporary and it is not really a disorder. It like a long version of vomiting up rotten food in a culture that tells you to keep it down.