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milly wrote:
I am really confused. My psychiatrist suggested I needed to go for an autism assessment and that my schizophrenia/schizoaffective diagnosis needs to be reviewed. But all the information I have been looking at, I can see no link between autism and psychosis. Autism does not cause psychosis, so why does the psychiatrist think I do not have schizophrenia?
I had my first psychosis in 2010. I continued taking meds until 2020 with zero psychosis. They tried to put me on antidepressants once they took me off the antipsychotic, and thats what pushed me into having another psychosis. He feels having two psychotic episodes (10 years apart) does not mean I have schizophrenia. It's not what the other docs said but I want to trust this consultant. He's the only one in 38 years of my life who rightfully thought I needed an autism assessment.
I had my first psychosis in 2010. I continued taking meds until 2020 with zero psychosis. They tried to put me on antidepressants once they took me off the antipsychotic, and thats what pushed me into having another psychosis. He feels having two psychotic episodes (10 years apart) does not mean I have schizophrenia. It's not what the other docs said but I want to trust this consultant. He's the only one in 38 years of my life who rightfully thought I needed an autism assessment.
Oh it definitely can be linked with autism, I've dealt with psychosis multiple times, I'm not schizophrenic either. Fun stuff
Xenorere wrote:
Oh it definitely can be linked with autism, I've dealt with psychosis multiple times, I'm not schizophrenic either. Fun stuff
THANK YOU for the confirmation!! I am so tired of my mom thinking my wife, who has autism, is schizophrenic! She doesn't meet the DSM criteria for it but does meet all the AS criteria.
One therapist we saw said that her past trauma likely brings it out (and I would bet not being diagnosed until 33 is also a huge factor). I actually came here today to post another theory in this forum to see if anyone can lend credibility to it on this very topic...
SteelersFan wrote:
Xenorere wrote:
Oh it definitely can be linked with autism, I've dealt with psychosis multiple times, I'm not schizophrenic either. Fun stuff
THANK YOU for the confirmation!! I am so tired of my mom thinking my wife, who has autism, is schizophrenic! She doesn't meet the DSM criteria for it but does meet all the AS criteria.
One therapist we saw said that her past trauma likely brings it out (and I would bet not being diagnosed until 33 is also a huge factor). I actually came here today to post another theory in this forum to see if anyone can lend credibility to it on this very topic...
I havent had an official diagnosis, so dont let me influence your medical decisions, I could be wrong, but from the digging I've done and paying attention to how it affected me, the symptoms seem like it was psychosis, and it happened more than once to me
SteelersFan wrote:
Xenorere wrote:
Oh it definitely can be linked with autism, I've dealt with psychosis multiple times, I'm not schizophrenic either. Fun stuff
THANK YOU for the confirmation!! I am so tired of my mom thinking my wife, who has autism, is schizophrenic! She doesn't meet the DSM criteria for it but does meet all the AS criteria.
One therapist we saw said that her past trauma likely brings it out (and I would bet not being diagnosed until 33 is also a huge factor). I actually came here today to post another theory in this forum to see if anyone can lend credibility to it on this very topic...
Depending upon the traits, the line can be kind of fine, even for professionals. There's supposed to be a schiZotypy Autism Questionnaire coming out, but the last time I checked it seemed to still be in the R&D stages. There's definitely folks like me out there where the traits didn't become really apparent until years later than what the professionals expect out of a developmental disorder, but far to young for it to constitute a personality disorder leading to a bit of a grey area.
But, considering how many people get misdiagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses before they eventually get an ASD one and the varous venn diagrams of symptoms, there does seem to be a broader spectrum from ASD over to the schizophrenia spectrum.
Xenorere wrote:
SteelersFan wrote:
Xenorere wrote:
Oh it definitely can be linked with autism, I've dealt with psychosis multiple times, I'm not schizophrenic either. Fun stuff
THANK YOU for the confirmation!! I am so tired of my mom thinking my wife, who has autism, is schizophrenic! She doesn't meet the DSM criteria for it but does meet all the AS criteria.
One therapist we saw said that her past trauma likely brings it out (and I would bet not being diagnosed until 33 is also a huge factor). I actually came here today to post another theory in this forum to see if anyone can lend credibility to it on this very topic...
I havent had an official diagnosis, so dont let me influence your medical decisions, I could be wrong, but from the digging I've done and paying attention to how it affected me, the symptoms seem like it was psychosis, and it happened more than once to me
One trait in particular that's often shared between autistic people and schizoprenics is a failure to forget things quickly enough and a sort of disordered way of combining that stuff into patterns that might not entirely make sense in a more objective sense. And then there's repeatedly rejecting invitations and then attributing their no longer inviting you as some sort of a conspiracy or something other than the natural consequence of regularly saying now.
It's definitely different, but on the surface it can look very similar.
My daughter firmly believes that my sz/sz-a is secondary to the ASD(Asperger's). The bullying and stress from being an undiagnosed autistic child then teenager - a trigger for psychosis. I tend to lose the plot when under pressure and stressed. I didn't get the dx till I was 62.
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