any schizoaffectives here?

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I have Asperger's and Schizoaffective, anyone here with the same combination?

My counselor says that I have a "Schizoid Affect", but without the "Schizoid Personality Disorder" or "Schizo-Affective Disorder".

When I asked what that means in plain English, she said that I have a "Poker Face" -- my facial expressions do not reflect the magnitude of my emotions.

As for Schizo-Affective Disorder (SAD), the Mayo Clinic says this:

I have autism and schizoaffective bipolar type. The schizoaffective disorder is extremely scary at times. It gets worse each year. I can't say much more because its hard to think right now.

I have bi-polar type as well. My doctor says the mood problems are the main ones although I have auditory hallucinations.

By "schizoid affect," she likely means schizothymia, not a specific mental disorder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizothymia

It's a temperament associated with the schizophrenia spectrum and vulnerability to schizophrenia.

Schizoaffective disorder is a serious mental disorder similar to schizophrenia--it just also has a strong mood component, which surprisingly makes the prognosis better than schizophrenia. Schizoid personality disorder is a somewhat controversial diagnosis, but is similar to schizothymia.

I'm diagnosed aspergers and schizoaffective too. There's quite a few users here with variation of autism/schizophrenia diagnoses.

At age 14 I was diagnosed with the unthinkable: a comorbid Asperger syndrome and schizotypal personality disorder.

I don't see why that's unthinkable. That was my diagnosis before they changed it to schizotypal. The specifics on both spectrums change for me depending on my doctor.

I especially had many autistic symptoms as a child. Now the ADD symptoms overway and my social understanding got quite good, so that my dx was changed from HFA to ADD with BAP (broad autism phenotype). But I'm still pretty routinised and have special interests.

My half-brother had schizophrenia and I know I've some traits too. I can get really obsessed and paranoid with a topic, but I'm still aware of my "paranoid-like obsession", also under severe stress I experienced psychotic like symptoms. So I've some schizotypal traits.

I once thought I might have Bipolar II and even my psychiatrist had this suspicion, but my moodswings were propably stress related and hormonal changes. We'll see.

Last edited by Raziel on 20 Nov 2013, 10:52 am, edited 1 time in total.

Your diagnosis is based on ... what, exactly?

Where did I say I was diagnosing? Schizothymia is not a mental health diagnosis. All it is is a temperament. All I'm doing is helping to clarify things for you, since you seemed to be in such need.

Read the dang link I gave you. Anything look familiar? Judging from my reading of the schizophrenia spectrum, schizoid affect is more or less the same as schizothymia.

It sure as heck isn't anywhere near schizoaffective disorder on that same spectrum. It sounds much closer to a subthreshold schizoid personality disorder, though.

I have never been diagnosed with Aspergers, but my parents suspected it. As a kid I used to be obsessed with numbers, in particular multiplication and counting. My parents sat down with me and talked about autism and how there were special schools that I could go to. I refused to believe it. I was so insulted I didn't speak to them for days.

A doctor first diagnosed me with Paranoid Schizophrenia 3 years ago. I held that diagnosis for a little over a year. Before changing psychiatrists he let me know he thought I lied somewhere on the autism spectrum.

I was then hospitalized after refusing to take medications and developing psychosis. A team of doctors called my "crisis team" diagnosed me with Schizoaffective Bipolar disorder almost 2 years ago.

Aspie here with paraniod schizoaffective disorder with bipolar traits. I remember being told that Schizoaffective disorder is worse than a mood disorder but not as worse as full blown Schizophrenia, so it's in between those two.

I feel like sometimes I have Schizotypal because I am afraid of being around people I don't know and sometimes I just stay in the house all day with no desire to leave the house.