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Schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type-- I'm back at 23 -
February 11th 2025, 08:57 PM
Disclaimer: not sure if this is in the right forum or not so, admin/moderator, feel free to move it if needed.
Hello everyone. I made a new account because I couldn't seem to login to the old one I used to have as a teenager. I'm 23 years old now. I now have a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type. Which if you don't know, that means symptoms of schizophrenia, and a mood component which in my case is bipolar disorder. I get manic and depressive episodes but also get psychosis during and between episodes. I'm not ALWAYS in psychosis, but I have episodes then have residual symptoms between episodes.
Last night I was starting to get some more symptoms in which my speech started not making sense and I started hallucinating again.
I wrote in my notes on my phone:
"it's important to have your own organ attached to you. I actually took both of these parents as a child".
I realized later that it was odd and didn't make a ton of sense. But in the moment, it's either a voice I hear, or it's some kind of delusion.
Anyway, thanks for everyone who stood by my side through my teen years when I used to use this site a lot.
Re: Schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type-- I'm back at 23 -
February 12th 2025, 11:30 PM
Happy to haha you back!
I think writing things in your notes app is a great idea even if the notes don’t make sense. You can share them with your providers so they know what’s happening.
Do you ever get a little bit tired of life
Like you're not really happy but you don't wanna die
Like you're hanging by a thread but you gotta survive
'Cause you gotta survive
Re: Schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type-- I'm back at 23 -
February 14th 2025, 10:11 PM
Hello and welcome back to Teenhelp , it is lovely that you came back to us. I'm sorry about what you have been going through and I hope that you will be okay soon. When you are having a hard time, write about it and then show someone who you trust so that they can help you to feel better soon. Sending you lots of to help you to feel better.
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