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Demonira
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25 Jul 2009, 3:56 pm

I now have schizophrenia, along with the common fugue states, depression, panic attacks, anterograde amnesia, and depression. Joy. Now I look like a crazy f**k. Why can't I just be normal? I mean, it's bad enough that I have AS, let alone every mental issue under the sun. Is it too much to ask?



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25 Jul 2009, 4:04 pm

Is this a new diagnosis? New symptoms? You're a fairly typical age for the onset of schizophrenia, but if you're having psychotic features associated with a mood disorder, dissociative disorder, or other problems you already had, it's not necessarily schizophrenia.



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25 Jul 2009, 5:01 pm

The symptoms came recently, however my shrink thinks that my AS was really the early symptoms of schizophrenia. I got the diagnosis today.



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25 Jul 2009, 5:21 pm

Demonira wrote:
The symptoms came recently, however my shrink thinks that my AS was really the early symptoms of schizophrenia. I got the diagnosis today.


good luck and lets hope it doesnt develop into anything worse. stay well! :]


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25 Jul 2009, 5:59 pm

What type of amnesia is anterograde?



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25 Jul 2009, 6:03 pm

buryuntime wrote:
What type of amnesia is anterograde?


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25 Jul 2009, 11:39 pm

So, is your psychiatrist saying you no longer have an AS diagnosis? Is he saying that the symptoms of schizophrenia and AS overlapped so much he could not determine which was the truth until today?

It is true that the early stages of schizophrenia resemble AS.. but haven't you had AS symptoms ALL your life?


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26 Jul 2009, 2:36 am

whitetiger wrote:
So, is your psychiatrist saying you no longer have an AS diagnosis? Is he saying that the symptoms of schizophrenia and AS overlapped so much he could not determine which was the truth until today?

It is true that the early stages of schizophrenia resemble AS.. but haven't you had AS symptoms ALL your life?


Yes, but the symptoms weren't helped at all by the therapy they were giving me. The symptoms just kept on getting worse and worse, instead of getting better. Finally, around a month ago, my shrink decided that my symptoms were too bizarre now to be AS, so he decided to test me for schizophrenia.



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26 Jul 2009, 5:58 am

'...my shrink decided that my symptoms were too bizarre now to be AS, so he decided to test me for schizophrenia.'

I suggest that you get a second opinion. There is no test for schizophrenia.

People have had their lives ruined by this diagnosis. Some shrinks jump to it wrongly on hearing one or two symptoms that could easily be due to another condition (mood disorders, AS, etc).

A lot of shrinks, even senior ones, can't diagnose AS at all.



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26 Jul 2009, 10:14 pm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32012580/ns ... al_health/

Ann Lovegren Conley, a family nurse practitioner at the University of Southern Maine, examines a patient on the university's Portland, Maine campus on May 11. Conley has been trained to identify a troubled mental state usually found in teens and young adults that can lead to schizophrenia.


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