Schizoaffective Disorder

[Inzomniac]

Schizoaffective Disorder is a hellish thing. I hate to tell you that and do wish you the best if you do in fact have it. I have seen people institutionalized who are at one moment in an incoherent psychotic state and later are cycling between severely depressed moods and explosive and expansive moods. It is among one of the hardest disorders for which to get a handle on. We have made progress with Bipolar Disorder in the research field and today more progress is being made with Schizophrenia. Once all of this comes together, I think they will also be able to make further progress with Schizoaffective Disorder. But I still think that is many years off from now. In general, the severe cases are generally institutionalized and do not achieve a GAF above 20 despite treatment. Many people can live functional lives, but my own personal experience with the people I know seems to suggest that this disorder usually takes a turn for the worse, even more than Bipolar Disorder or Schizophrenia.

[JDHURF]

It's good that all of your major psychotic symptoms have dissipated! Stay active and healthy! I hope you continue to do better!


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[spacemonkey]

[JDHURF]

Literally most substances ingested by human beings have side effects of some sort to some extent of intensity.

It is true that many prescribed medications may have side effects that are perhaps even worse than the ailment for which they were prescribed to treat. This all varies upon not only the medications themselves but the specific physiology of the individual down to genetic differences. It's not straightforward, clear, harmless and easy to comprehend and balance.

For someone who is suffering from psychotic symptoms, which can be severe and debilitating and are effectively taking medications that have managed the symptoms under the supervision and guidance of medical professionals and have neither been prescribed medical cannabinoids of any sort nor expressed the desire to try and do so, then any suggestion made to that individual to just go and load up a bong of anything is not only a dumb thing to recommend. It is a potentially harmful suggestion.

[spacemonkey]

[Inzomniac]

Luke/Kevin,

I've really enjoyed this thread.
It's kind of given a lot of insight on what to do with life.
It just proves that even though you have an illness, your spirit is well. And this is ultimately what matters.
This roadmap you have for enduring an illness in your life is but a small price to pay compared to what it takes to reach someone who is ill in their souls.
We often don't realize the purpose for why things are as they are in our lives, but understand that sometimes all we can do is absorb what others inflict.
In that way, we are helping the reality, by removing the weight that might otherwise go to an unwilling person and the complications that would result.
So don't ever think that anything in this life is in vain, but remember that uplifting power within that keeps things going, even at the darkest moments.
We are beings of sound. And a being of sound that finds the vibration that reaches another such being and touches them, helps them move forward.
Go find that person whose heart is stuck and write a beautiful song that helps them move on.
The other conditions of life are secondary to this critical goal.

Peace,
Chris