I think that a form of depression is that with psychotic symptoms and this form is basically a depressive disease that can take forms of acute psychosis. What if depression that is psychotic is misdiagnosed as schizophrenia?
No answer - just experience. More than n30 years ago (1978) I was diagnosed Schizopheric and was admitted to a mental institution for three months during which I was on quite a bit of meds including the injection Modecate . Towards the end of my stay there, my doctor informed me that they could not help me there, that I needed to get into a place where could get therapy on a regular basis. It was then that I learnt that my diagnoses was change from Schizophrenia to Chronic Depression with Psychotic episodes and Borderline Personality Disorder. That is still my diagnosis and I am still on a lot of medication but no longer the injection.
Your experience and relation to this diagnose makes you feel in a way more sad, lets you behave in a way that a depressed mad does or do you find this just a part of a big misunderstanding about what disease you have?
I don't think I really understood what difference it made. I did hear voices, I did have psychotic episodes. In terms of medication, two or three types of meds were stopped, and the modecate was given as needed. That was the only thing I really hated. The modecate injection. To me that was the symbol of "my madness". But now even that has been taken away. I don't take as many pills as I had in the past, and although I am still on drugs like chlorpromazine, normally given to people with schizophrenia, I do understand that it is for the psychotic episodes I sometimes have.
I think paranoid schizophrenia is linked to affective disorders (deoressio). Me research show similirity in sleep architecture (PSG) by paranoid schizophrenia and depression.
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