My Life With Schizoaffective Disorder: How It Started

At 17, I was diagnosed with depressive-type schizoaffective disorder. Here's a brief synopsis of how things progressed.

[Tierneycristian]

I was severely traumatized years ago as a teenage, got diagnosed with schizophrenia. Spent my whole life fighting schizophrenia. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly, 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

[chelleb]

I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder but found out I have the MTHFR mutation causing methylation issues. All of my symptoms including depression, anxiety and extreme mood swings along with the schizo stuff is kept in check by using NAC and methylfolate which is what my body desperately needed to function. If you haven't been checked for MTHFR I can't stress enough how important it is to find out. It's been linked to schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. It's because our bodies aren't able to process folate and we don't make enough glutathione to help us process oxidative stress and toxins so we have to supplement them daily. Learning about this changed EVERYTHING for me!!

[Shaxuul]

You hit the nail on the head with this video. I have Schizoaffective Disorder (Bi-Polar type). I saw a therapist for the first time today. My auditory hallucinations come in the form of faint whispers -- whispers that 'narrate' *everything* I'm doing. I used to think my house was haunted... I've had *numerous* delusions against friends & family -- accusing them of everything from planting "spytools" in my router, to thinking cameras were put in my wall. It all became the norm for me.. Just awful delusions in hindsight..

[jadarobinson]

I just got diagnosed with Schizoaffective Bipolar type. I hope you continue making these video they are helpful. It takes courage to share your story.

[dalitrh]

I had a cat when I was a kid. It used to stay on top of my closet and only came down at night. I remember I was always kinda scared of the cat, especially since I knew we didn't have a cat. I was the only one who could see it. That's when I decided to keep my mouth shut, never talk about what I saw or heard. I was 5-6 years old then, and knew something was wrong with me. I had tried talking to a Dr, but I obviously had a active imagination.. The fact that I couldn't sleep, I just had to be patient and wait for it to get better by itself. It never did, but didn't go back to the Dr before I was 32 years old. They found out I had schizoaffective bipolar disorder.

[RaysDad]

When I was 8 and living with my mother, a single parent, I couldn't go to sleep because I heard a man snoring, The snoring got louder and louder until it was scary. So I went into my mother's room and asked to sleep with her. That calmed me down but I wouldn't stay still so she told me to go back to my room. What a horrible night that was! I kept hearing music in my head and I couldn't stop it; I'd lost control.

[kewlenjo]

I want to thank you for making this video and for showing people that even with this disorder you can still be a likeable and well communicating person. It's going to take an army of people as brave as you talking about this so people finally get it that people with a brain disorder are not villains but normal people who are not neurotypical. It's the only way society will stop stigmatizing and villainizing people dealing with cognitive and mood issues and maybe, hopefully, the mental health situation (which is very broken in the US) can improve and more people can get help instead of made homeless or imprisoned.

[julieolson]

I was raised by a violent, dangerous schizophrenic, who was a monster. He was institutionalized. My movie and church buddy over the past few years is also schizophrenic. He has the personality of a gentle, friendly puppy, and is frequently the only person I can really talk to. However, he does have an occasional uncontrollable panic attack. These two people could not be more different, but they do have this terrible disease in common. As a retired critical care nurse I'm the first to admit that psychiatry is not my wheelhouse. But it seems to me that precious little has been done over my lifetime to help victims of this life-robbing disease. What progress has been made seems to be in behavior management with medications. I'm grateful for this, but nobody talks about etiology. Nobody dreams of prevention. Why is that? I would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you for bravely stepping forward with your story . God bless you.

[LittleOne]

My daughter was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder bipolar type when she was 20. At first she refused treatment of any kind, then accepted treatment after the birth of her daughter at the age of 22. Then rejected treatment again in 2013, when her daughter was 6. My daughter is now 38 and her 16 year old daughter is under my care. My daughter is a lost soul somewhere I don’t know where. A few times a year, I receive an email from her that’s full of word salad. The hardest thing a parent has to do is mourn the loss of a child that is still alive.

[essvee]

My mum has it too. It's so sad because it's not something you can control. You just gotta hope your family/friends can help and support you.

[turbo]

This is a nice in-depth video about what the beginning of schizoaffective can start as. For me, I had visuals first at the age of 7 and then the bipolar stuff came later on. Glad you are making these videos!

[troyesivanstan]

I just learned I have Schizo-affective disorder. I have had problems for years, I hope it gets better.

[mistatiktok]

I can truly relate but it's hard to trust people with what makes you vulnerable in hopes that they won't use it against you

[GermaineSalcedo-zdum]

I was diagnosed of having schizophrenia and psychosocial disability. By having medication and thru the advice of a neurologist and psychiatrist, I was informed that my disease is biological in nature that there is too much production of dopamine cells in my left brain hemisphere. It turned out that my addictive habits of impurity and too much self indulgence to pleasures are the causes of my sicknesses. But through God's word and the Bible and by having my suitable medications I live a very normal and useful Life. Thank God for helping me

[farmer]

I was diagnosed at 18 a year after my episode at 17 with Schizoaffective disorder... I was not in therapy at the time... I don't know how I survived it despite it being fairly mild. Thank you for sharing your story! ❤❤ I talk about mine openly as well to help others understand what it can look like mildly as well.

[deonblack]

Thank you for being so transparent and articulate as you described your experience.

[Alwayscatlike]

I think these people are in-tune with their past experiences being re-lived so to speak. Who knows 100%. It could be another dimension they are partially still connected to. My mother and I went through a phase where when we shut our eyes to go to sleep and photos of the past, very old photos rolled before our eyes one after another in frames. Photos of native American's, people from other countries, no different than walking through a museum with old photo's of people. Completely detailed. When I mentioned this to my Mom she said I have had the same thing happen to me and realized it happened to us at the same time. It was actually cool. Lasted for about 3 days.

[HearingVoicesSantaBarbara]

Thank you for sharing your story. I printed pictures of the ugly men and women or demons. When I heard the voices telling me how ugly I am, I just looked at the picture. It changed my life, it helps. Whatever it is, I didn't want to hear it. Why would I want to listen to someone who is ugly and a monster. The voices are attacking all of us. We are not crazy.

[EvangelistDougDuncan]

I applaud you for your transparency. Thank you for making this video.

[josecogdill]

I was just diagnosed last week with schizo effective disorder, but I’m the bipolar type. Thank you for your video.