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Schizoaffective has a minion!

Hope the Rainbow Crow




Schizoaffective
Legacy Name: Schizoaffective


The Storm Keeto
Owner: Estinien

Age: 5 years, 1 month, 2 weeks

Born: February 12th, 2019

Adopted: 5 years, 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Adopted: February 12th, 2019

Statistics


  • Level: 1
     
  • Strength: 10
     
  • Defense: 10
     
  • Speed: 10
     
  • Health: 10
     
  • HP: 10/10
     
  • Intelligence: 0
     
  • Books Read: 0
  • Food Eaten: 0
  • Job: Unemployed


hey! if you're reading this, this is a WIP to raise awareness for schizoaffective disorder, which is something i've been diagnosed with since 2013. if you have any questions about the disorder, or have any points you'd want me to clarify, please comment or send me a message! thank you!

what is schizoaffective disorder?

- a combination of schizophrenia and a mood disorder, either bipolar or depression

-onset is from late teens to early thirties and can be either slow or sudden

-for a diagnosis, (how long symptoms last)

- does not mean the person is violent or dangerous! in fact, we're FAR more likely to be a victim than to be any sort of danger to someone else.

What are psychotic symptoms?

Psychotic symptoms are best broken up into positive and negative experiences. These are not in terms of "good" or "bad" symptoms, but they're in comparison to normal functioning: a positive symptom is something beyond normal functioning (like someone seeing an object that isn't there), and a negative symptom is something lacking or less than normal functioning (such as being unable to express emotion outwardly).

  • Hallucinations are false sensations, and can be (most commonly) visual or auditory, but can also be tactile, olfactory (smell), or gustatory (taste).
  • While voices are the most common hallucination, not everyone has them!
  • Related are illusions, which are misinterpreting something tangible, like --

what are mood disorder symptoms?

-bipolar

-depression

difference between psychotic depression, psychotic symptoms in bipolar, and schizoaffective disorder?

-for previous two, symptoms happen in association with mood disorder symptoms (ie when manic, experiences psychotic symptoms only then)

-in schizoaffective disorder, psychotic symptoms happen regardless of mood disorder symptoms

what are treatment options and outlook?

-outlook is REAL good if help is gotten early

misconceptions???

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"Silas? You can come in now." The kumos holding the door open smiled.

The keeto's ears perked up. Nervously they smiled as they got up from the waiting room chair and into the next room. It was warmly decorated, lots of bookshelves with lots of books, some less intimidatingly medical than others. One wall was a large window that let in soft daylight; another had family photos and degrees hung up on the wall. Somehow they keep expecting to see one of those lounge chairs psychiatrists always seem to have in movies, but they'll gladly take the cozy sofa in the corner this time. As they sat down, the doctor spoke.

"How are you doing today?"

"I've been... alright lately."

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Silas's eyes turned to the floor. "I know it sounds stupid, but it feels like all this rain and stuff's been my fault. Whenever the news is on, I just get so guilty whenever they talk about the damage the flooding's caused, and-- and--" Inhale, count to four--hold for three--exhale for five. "--when that tornado warning last weekend, it was like I was gonna die! The sirens were so loud and I couldn't breathe and I kept saying sorry over and over to my friend but she didn't get it! I shouldvdon something but I just--I just don't know! It's like can't ever get right."

Dr. [name pending] jotted down some notes. "It's not stupid if it's this real to you, Silas. This is what you're experiencing and I'm not here to judge you. We're both here because you want to get help." Her voice was understanding

"If I try thinking about it a lot, I can tell myself I don't control the weather... I've got the weather page bookmarked on my laptop and sometimes just looking at all the stuff happening everywhere, it's a lot harder to sit and think that I'm doing it all. But at the same time, I can't stop thinking it, I can't stop knowing it.

"And I guess it doesn't help that I've gotten like, four hours of sleep some nights. It's just so hard to pull myself away from doing stuff, like someone's turning a key and I keep on going even though I want to stop. I mean on the one hand I've gotten so much homework done that I needed to catch up on since I hit that rough spot a month back or so." "I know I've got diagnosed with depression when I was younger, so I guess it felt like that? You know it's bad when I only took one shower that week."

Pet Treasure


Shy Sun Sticker

Discarded Theater Masks

Fright

Ziaran Pill Box

Depressed Worm

Sad Rainy Sticker

Guide to Weather Watching

Cloud Watching

Sudden Rainstorms

Tales for Summer Days and Summer Nights

Storm Brewing

Spring Storms

Wet Photograph

Sun and Moon Charms

Cloud Identification

Sheltering From Storms

Cloud Watching

Into the Eye of the Storm

Paranoid Scaredy Cat Figurine

Tempest Plushie

Semicolon Sticker

Snapshot of a Terrifying Tornado

Storm Brewing

Boxed Set of Lessons Learned

Nightmarish Cloud

Paranoid Cheetah Plushie

Daily Pills

The Happiest Storm Cloud

All About Clouds

Stormy Moods

Nightmare Journal

Loving Yourself

Scaredy Cat

Spoon Sticker

Gray Striped Journal

Green Striped Journal

Ray of Hope

Pet Friends