#bipolar-type schizoaffective

[madtrender]

Schizoaffective Flags

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I realized there weren't a lot of good schizoaffective flags, so I decided to make some. Disclaimer: I don't have schizoaffective disorder nor any type of schizospec/mood disorder.

The lavender in this flag comes from @schizosupport 's schizospec flag and is meant to represent the schizophrenic symptoms present in the disorder. The silver comes from the schizoaffective awareness ribbon. The symbol is a modified version of the one by @actuallyschizophrenic , meant to represent the ups and downs of mood disorders.

Bipolar-type Schizoaffective

[PT: Bipolar-type Schizoaffective /End PT]

The silver & lavender have the same meanings as in the general schizoaffective flag. Green is the color of one of the bipolar awareness ribbons, and is also present in both bipolar flags. Yellow is also in the original bipolar flag for "when someone isnt in an episode at all, and can also represent psychosis". The symbol is again a modified version of the one by @/actuallyschizophrenic, meant to mirror the bipolar symbol. Black and white is the color of another bipolar awareness ribbon; it also represents the, well, bipolar nature of this disorder.

Depressive-type Schizoaffective

[PT: Depressive-type Schizoaffective /End PT]

The silver & lavender have the same meanings as in the general schizoaffective flag. The pink comes from these MDD flags. Blue is a color generally associated with depression. The symbol is again a modified version of @/actuallyschizophrenic's, with the arrows pointing downward to symbolize depression.

[zebulontheplanet]

I don’t talk about my mental health here much because well, this is mostly an autism page. But I think it’s good to bring awareness to all things. As some people know, I was recently sorta diagnosed with bipolar type Schizoaffective. It’s been a journey for sure. We’re still figuring out things and starting treatment. If it’s bipolar, it’s bipolar, if not, it’s another mood disorder similar to bipolar.

Hypomania has been something I have experienced multiple times but never realized was hypomania and thought it was simply ups from BPD, which I am formally diagnosed with. I never before realized that my days of being so high, weren’t BPD. However, hypomania has caused many things, and I’d like to talk about it.

Disclaimer: Hypomania is a Bipolar term. And is not something people with BPD or other mood disorders experience.

Hypomania has caused me to take on a religion I do not believe in and become obsessed with it. It’s a full on delusion. Hypomania has made it so I joined an online cult and put all my time into it. Hypomania has meant that I don’t sleep for days at a time (i sleep!! Just less than 3 hours at a time. More like naps.) I go high, do everything, do adventurous things and things I wouldn’t normally do, then I crash and sleep for a few hours, then I’m back at it again.

Hypomania is SCARY to me. It causes extreme paranoia, extreme mood swings, and extreme ups and downs in my moods.

It causes me to self harm, to hurt myself, to do things to my health that I wouldn’t in my right mind do. I won’t use my mobility aids, I’ll stop taking my medication, I’ll convince myself I’m unstoppable. I’ll walk miles even though my body can’t physically handle it. I’ll be in less chronic pain, if any, and therefore think I’m cured and on top of the world. I think I’m superior, I get shit done that I haven’t done in months and manically clean, organize, and yeah. My hypomanic episodes are not for the weak.

I get frustrated easily, I say rude things, I ruin, or almost ruin relationships with my carelessness and anger. I think of breaking up with my fiancé, even though I love them very much and would NEVER want to do that.

Hypomania is not a silly thing. I almost ruin my life EVERY SINGLE TIME. It’s hard to deal with hypomania. It’s hard to deal with me when I’m hypomanic. I’m hyper, I’m high. I’m all over the place. My heart races, and I feel like I just took a drug. I’m not myself. Me hypomanic is NOT me.

I wish more people realized that hypomania wasn’t just some silly thing, that it wasn’t something that is just silly goofy intrusive thoughts that you do. That it wasn’t just dying your hair and spending some money. (Although some people do that during hypomanic, it’s just so much more than that!!!) Hypomania is life changing. Realizing you’re hypomanic is life changing. Realizing that all your life those big highs and lows were something is life changing.

Don’t undermine hypomania. Don’t say that it’s not life ruining. Don’t say that it’s not “that bad”. It’s bad. Some people experience more calm hypomanic episodes, and I have DEFINITELY experienced more calm ones. But my hypomania is extreme most of the time. Let’s stop undermining hypomania. It’s a lot, and I wish more people realized that.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Hey everyone!

After my stay at the mental hospital, I was diagnosed with something called “Schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type”

If anyone knows about it or has it, can you explain what this means? I’m very curious and confused. 🤔

[madpunks]

feel free to leave a reply or reply in tags/reblogs, i know there are way more experiences than these 12 but i'm extremely curious because i have repeatedly been told that SSRIs are not good for bipolar people but I see that we get prescribed them all the time, anyway. please feel free to boost this, i want to hear from other bipolar folks.

[nd-lady]

Important!!!

That is all.

[dilsdoes]

its so crazy that some people who have periods go fully insane leading up to or during it and people you try to relate to about this will be like omg yeah! pms is a bitch >_< and then youre like no i mean literally insane and theyre like yeah i get it!! i snap at my partner im a beast lol and then youre like no i really and truly mean mentally ill like actually literally insane. meanwhile while you are having this conversation you are fielding the 'are you on your period' misogyny. like while this is happening as soon as it turns out that you were premenstrual or menstrual during this insanity everyone, and i do mean everyone, including mental health professionals, will just kinda dust their hands and be like see! it was nothing haha. and youre like i just wanted to fully kill myself dead and like crash a car and slit my wrists and overdose can you take that seriously please. and they will not take it seriously. because you were just on your period.

[chapelbat]

Schizoaffective bipolar type and harm ocd together will be like “hurt yourself you deserve to hurt yourself you’re the worst person alive and everyone will know they’re all out to get you everyone will know you are the biggest villain alive your sins can never be washed clean you will never be pure they all know they all know”

[themogaidragon]

Hi! Do you know of any flags for schizoaffective dissorder but for the different types? And one for coutard's syndrome?

Yes there are!

Here for general flag + depressive and bipolar type (link)

Here a schizoaffective bipolar type flag (link) (TW exclusionism)

Here another schizoaffective disorder flag (link)

Here a schizobipolar flag (link)

Here a cotard syndrome flag (link)

Simplified version of the previous flag (link)

Here a cotard syndrome awareness flag (link)

Here a cotard syndrome/delusion flag (link)

[eternaspacic]

schizoaffective bipolar type pride flag!

i've seen many schizophrenia as well as some psychosis and schizospec flags, but i've yet to see a schizoaffective flag, so i made my own! this is specifically for bipolar types! free to use with credit!

[gremmin]

❤️‍🔥💚🌬️

[blushingchaos]

there is only so much anger that a short person’s body can hold, and i have reached that limit !!/!!:!/&/&/!

[historian-in-pearls]

My doctor sent my work all the papers, and I got the email that I'm approved for FMLA. I can miss up to two days in a row each week for reasons related to my illness, no questions asked. I'm hoping it's really only going to have to be used when I start ECT treatment soon (and possibly ketamine treatment after that), but as difficult as things have been lately, I'm glad I'm covered.

I never wanted to do this. This feels like I'm throwing in the towel, letting the disease win. I'm not happy it's come to this, but I'm grateful I'm here and that I'm able to keep fighting.

[zebulontheplanet]

As someone figuring out their mental health, and as someone figuring out their new diagnosis, I think people don’t realize how life altering a diagnosis can be.

Yes, a diagnosis after so long of knowing something is wrong can be life changing for the better, but it can also be hard. It means new medication trials, it means rethinking EVERYTHING you’ve ever done and trying to figure out what was normal and what wasn’t. It’s learning about your disorder and trying to pinpoint symptoms now. It’s so much.

And as someone recently exploring the idea of bipolar with my psych (very much looking like I’m bipolar, and 99.9% we’re certain it is) it’s earth shattering in a way. When you have so many disorders like I do, another one on the list just sorta feels like “fuck, what did I do wrong?” Because it’s you. Isn’t it? At least that’s what goes through your head.

I don’t think people truly understand this and it makes me SO frustrated because no one truly talks about the grief you go through when you find out these things. When you realize that everything you did wasn’t just “teenage hormones” no. It wasn’t any of that. Something was genuinely wrong. And flying under the radar is so hard, because you tried so hard not to, and yet you still did.

It’s hard. And I wish more people talked about this.

[schizopositivity]

Have you read "The Quiet Room - a Journey Out of the Torment of Madness" by Lori Schiller? I just finished it its a really good memoir of someone w/ schizoaffective disorder (bipolar type)

I liked it a lot bc it was brutally honest about a whole lot of things. Hospitalizations and medical abuse/the generally awful parts about them, drug abuse, suicide attempts, and having to deal with the awful stigma and misinfo around the disorder. (i guess this also doubles as a trigger warning for those topics so i should also add a tw for SA and of course paranoia + unreality while im at it)

There were also chapters written by her family/friends/doctors sprinkled in there too and i really enjoyed them bc it lets it capture both how it affects the person and how it affects their family without making it seem like it's harder on the family than it is for the actual person suffering from the illness. Those chapters also didnt sugarcoat their feelings and werent afraid to say some hurtful things but i think thats a really important part of the book.

I would def recommend it as media about sz/sza. Honestly glad i read it because media about sz spec stuff can be like russian roulette sometimes but this one was honest, respectful, and refreshing about it and ended on a hopeful note abt recovery.

I haven't read it but that sounds awesome! I'll post it so other people can see it.

Sadly I am really bad at reading books :( I have two forms of dyslexia (the kind that switches letters and the kind that makes lines of text overlap so it's nearly impossible to read) and also my schizophrenia really impacts my ability to focus and retain the information that I read. Honestly just reading paragraphs like this ask is a struggle and takes me longer than most other people. And audiobooks are still difficult because of the focus and information retention thing.

That aside I am always happy to hear that schizophrenia/schizoaffetive memoirs exist. They are often buried under hundreds of books written by nonschizophrenics, so thank you for bringing this to my attention I really appreciate it.

[ghostlyschizophrenic]

had an appointment with my psychiatrist today and when i described what i was going through, she suggested we start looking into me potentially having OCD and maybe even get an official PTSD diagnosis. the PTSD thing isn’t surprising to me, ive had multiple therapists say i have it but its just never been put in my chart and my psychiatrist doesn’t specifically treat me for it, but the OCD is very surprising to me. though i will say that once my psychiatrist told me what i was saying back to me i realized that yeah, that is a lot of obsessive thoughts followed by compulsive actions. mental illness really is buy one get 10 more free…

[joeyloganho]

YALL I absolutely HATE mania. As in mental health mania. ya know? Hate it. with a PASSION. I am sat here bouncing off walls and my skin is CRAWLING And my brain is going WAYYYY too fast and I'm going in and out of psychosis and I just AAAAAAA HATE IT