do i have schizoaffective disorder, please help!! !! !! !

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I've been diagnosed with autism, now wondering if I have schizo affective disorder as well. I've had lifelong depression, bizarre beliefs/behavior, very poor decision making ability. I also feel out of touch with reality - like I'm outside myself. I'm also obsessed with disasters - but I WANT the world to end.
I also have 2 children. My son most likely has autism, and has periods of mania. I don't experience mania, but I'm very remote from everything and everyone, except my children and boyfriend.
I have mellowed (I'm 40), but still make horrendously bad decisions. I don't trust myself, and it scares me.

If you did have it you'd probably have the depressive version. I personally have the bipolar version. For starters, hearing voices in your head is an obvious indicator. From personal experience, they can vary from small whispers clearly just in your head to a voice indistinguishable from a normal voice in the room.

As far as delusions go, the best ways to cope are: (1) be as logical as possible - it only takes one small error in judgement to mess things up, and (2) try to adopt materialism and skepticism as a belief system as opposed to something weird like Otherkin type beliefs.

Atypical antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anti-anxiety meds, and antidepressents seem like common treatment for schizoaffective and similar illnesses.