Evemarx wrote:
I was diagnosed with AS, then later diagnosed with schizophrenia. The people who diagnosed me with schizophrenia were in a different city and never gained access to my medical records.
Psychiatrists aren't always right and sometimes it takes time to find out the real problem of a person. So if this diagnosis have been proofen wrong, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Missdiagnosis are VERY common in psychiatry and it also happened to me more than once.
Evemarx wrote:
The schizophrenia diagnosis never made any sense to me, and I've apparently recovered from schizophrenia (!) but still very much have AS.
Usually Schizophrenia is a chronic illness, but you CAN recover from it. Schizophrenia basically just means in most cases that you have had psychosis more than once and so have a high propability to relaps into another psychotic episode, but noone can tell that for sure also not how often that will be.
Evemarx wrote:
I've been doing a lot of reading around AS depression and the symptoms can look very similar to schizophrenia. My depression was left untreated for a long time, and I probably was very ill, but not psychotic.
Are you getting treated for depression now?
Also psychotic symtpoms in severe depression are very common and are seen in that case as a symptom of depression, also called: "psychotic depression".
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