I Have Schizoaffective Disorder Stories of Experiences

How can I overrule a powerful emotion? Its so hard, when I want to change my perception in life, my emotions overrule me. Its hard for me to rule with my heart and mind because I am a very sensitive person. Sometimes, I feel this...

Today, I expressed my irritability and annoyance again. I just can't deny the fact that people are trying to send a message which I am not. I know its part of the therapy to involve other people because the psychiatrist thinks that is...

I have been angry for a long time but last night is the start of my change. My husband says, he wanted to help me but I need to help myself. He said he is only human and don`t know how long he can endure this pain. I am schizo affective...

After giving birth to my first daughter, I get anxious then started to hear these voices in my head that they are reading my thoughts, controlling my emotions like they have been paid for to know whats on my mind. After some time, the...

I'm pretty much a loner in real life. I don't have too many friends, though I get out in my sports often. I try really hard to hang out with others because I do want to. My problem isn't gaining friends, it's keeping them...

I have been sick most all of my life. I'm forty years old now. I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder first in 1999, and I was suffering from Chronic Post Tramatic Stress Disorder at that time but was not diagnosed for that until 2008...

I don't generally think very highly of myself. Basically in my head I think I'm some sort of Jim Carey character and everyone is the audience watching at their amusement. I always feel there is something bizarre about me that is beyond...

I've been stable for a few months but lately there is a man in my room that only I can see. I don't know how to get rid of him. I'm scared.

I have schizoaffective disorder. I don't agree with the schizoaffective part of all this I don't think i have some god like image of myself like it refers to, but i do have disorder in my life. The sad thing is with this is i know...

I have schitsoaffective disorder and I've been to diff hospitals like 8 times for it ive tryed all the meds for and I don't know if I didn't give them enough time but all they did was make me fat and feel unhealthy and I was real...

I am 38 years old and have been living with schizoaffective since I was 16. I never really knew what schizoaffective actually ment until a few months ago. I knew I hallucinated (visual and auditory), but didn't really know that it...

So i dont know what else to do which best way to turn now........
For quite some years now i have grown weary of his behaviour. He started to open up about his childhood and how he had it bad and stuff, but recently i have become even...

Hi my name is Christine and I am a 30 year old female.. I found this forum, due to the fact that after speaking to my therapist she stated that there were many online support groups.. or areas where I could find people that suffer from...

Well it's been two weeks since I've been medicated and it's all going to shit . I mean I'm sitting here typing this in a public library hoping no one sees the tears or trembling lip . Anyway , see totally all over the place .I was...

I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder at the age of 20. I was studying art at university, & working as a freelance artist. I've struggled to complete work on time for clients, since my diagnosis.

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I was first diagnosed with this when I was 20 or 2 1 in the fall of 2000. I was very depressed and heard voices and was paranoid. The voices would tell me that I was a lesbian just because I would go to church and things like that...

I love myself, but I hate who I've become.. this is so difficult to share but I hear voices/see things/feel things/smell things.. It's hard to be on meds though and I don't really know what to do anymore.. I don't know if I should stay...

whenever anyone finds out i am diagnosed with schizo- affective disorder they think that i am just some crazy girl and they usually try to stay away from me. My illnessdoesnt define me though. I take meds that control my illness.I...

I like to describe being me as constantly sitting next to a serial killer. And being that serial killer's worst enemy. I came from a childhood of loneliness, abuse of all sorts, poverty, and any "family issue" you could possibly think...

Hidden links... that's what I call them. I haven't been diagnosed with schizzoaffective disorder, but as a young child I experienced paranioa about things that weren't there and that they were after me and were going to harm me. I also...