Have I got Schizophrenia as well?

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Hi Ive got Mild Aspergers but I keep getting voices in my head that tell me to do mischievous but harmless things, I have severe anger issues I can flip out over trivial things like banging my knee on the Coffee table and I have random bouts of near-psychotic paranoia (there could be months or even years between them to within minutes between them) where I get so caught up with them I lose sight of everything around me. What I'm asking is are these symptoms of Schizophrenia/Schizoid disorder or part and parcel of AS. Any one who have got some or all of the mentioned symptoms, diagnosed with Schizophrenia/Schizoid disorder and any specialists are welcome to give me feed back.

If you know that the voice is in your head is not likely to be an hallucination. Problems with controlling anger and paranoia are common in individuals with Asperger's, and some symptoms of autism overlap with schizoid personality disorder, avoidant personality disorder, simple schizophrenia, etc.
If worried, go to the doctor's.

Only an appropriately-trained and licensed mental-health professional is qualified to give a valid diagnosis. As far as I know, there are no WP members who fit that description. Certainly no one on WP is capable of rendering a valid diagnosis from a few subjective descriptions in a single post on a social website without actually meeting and examining the subject in question personally and over an extended period of time.

If you believe that you may be schizophrenic, then please consult an appropriately-trained and licensed mental-health professional.

^^ I thought it looked familiar.

Yes, it's a stock answer, but it is no less true in the repetition.

Hi BritAspie, okay, a couple of things you might like to be aware of. A psychiatrist from Emory wrote that there's actually a lot of overlap between schizophrenia and bipolar. In fact, thoughts regarding ways in which the world is connected in strange and wonderful ways, including thoughts of paranoia, that's actually a sign of bipolar. I'll find the link.

From a previous post, I made here's a guy writing about medical school in the early and mid 1980s (yes, fully a generation ago).
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp4098913.html&highlight=

I would talk with a psych. That does not sound like AS symptoms (the voices and intense paranoia).

Hi, I've probably have had more issues with delusions of grandeur. I've dreamt of being a hugely successful political activist and reformer, a very wealthy entrepreneur, a publisher and movie maker, and the last couple of years a doctor. And I've made some good additions to medical articles in wikipedia, staying very close to the original sources. So, maybe that's kind of being a medical journalist on a limited basis. And maybe I do have talent in some of these areas but not quite talented enough, plus need some luck along the way, and the standard method of just keep trying.

I protested the first Gulf War during the build-up in 1990 and the war itself beginning in January 1991. It was scary stuff. I worried about being put on a government list. Yes, I sincerely worked at my petitions and giving my few speeches, but I don't think they were that good to really constitute a threat to established power. All the same, I worried about it a lot. My apartment was broken into, who knows by who. I kind of made friends with a couple of fellow activists, but I take a lot of alone time, I need a lot of alone time, and this might not be understood by others. And I was coming at activism from philosophy, and I tend to go pretty far afield with my ideas in any case. Other activists seemed to shy away from me. Perhaps they had heard enough stories about government informers and the like to be worried, too. And I am different. In arts and writing, this can play to strength, but apparently, not so much here. And from what I've observed, most activist groups are as hierarchical as anything else.

Okay, I have struggled with bouts of depression from time to time. I have not yet tried antidepressants, but they are kind of my ace in the hole. And what I've read is that something like Zoloft might work great for some people, and not do a thing for others. Just that everyone's biochem is slightly different and it's trial and error in a respectful sense. And also that it's sometimes important to phase down from a medication in steps even if it doesn't seem to be working. My guess, and it's only a guess, would be that these facts are also the case for medications for both schizophrenia and bipolar.