Aspergers and schizophrenia?

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My psychiatrist told me at my last visit that he thinks I have early warning signs of paranoid schizophrenia in addition to autism and he wants to do more tests on me. Has anyone else received both diagnoses? What is it like being treated for both? I'm pretty worried right now and don't know what to think.

I don't know either. I wonder if the two are co-occuring?

DON'T PANIC. You are not your diagnosis, and never will be. No matter what they call you, you will always be you.

I'm not schizophrenic, but one of my uncles is, so I used to really worry that I'll have a schizophrenic break. I'm only 27. . . I could literally wake up tomorrow hearing voices.

But I don't worry about it anymore, even though I still know it could really happen.

Here, watch this TED talk on the topic: http://www.ted.com/talks/eleanor_longden_the_voices_in_my_head

the medicine i got for my aleged schizophrenia was much worse then anything i have ever experienced before

I am sure Cornflake will redirect this thread into Random.

As for the OP, I am schizophrenic. I was diagnosed as such in a Finnish loony bin. Not that I complain, I liked it there. Not the piano people, though.

http://www.ted.com/talks/elyn_saks_seei ... al_illness

I have both paranoid schizophrenia and aspergers. And really getting these diagnoses has helped a lot- it means any psychology and pharmacology treatments that I am getting are appropriate to my needs.Just remember though that the diagnoses are just words, and they don't define you as a person.

Do people on the spectrum have higher rates of Schizophrenia than Neurotypicals?

I've read someone here once stating that the two may be functionally opposite... although, I suppose yin and yang are opposes too and yet integrated...