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I wss unsure where to post this because I have schizoaffective disorder and am both Bipolar and Schizophrenic but since my main diagnosis and symptoms is Schizophrenia I decided to post here.
I've confessed to this before and things just havent changed. For those who don't know me from a needle in a haystack ill explain just what the issue is and everything thats happened so far. Generally I am manic a majority of the year for several months at a time I mostly never shared this with a doctor because I thought it was "normal" for people with mental Illnesses to get manic and engage in risky behavior which in my instance happens to be spending my wifes money foolishly and on things that don't matter. In fact, right now my wife and I have almost 8k in credit card debt and my wife and I only make about 25k give or take a year.
In fact ChatGPT calls my mental illness untreated despite me being on medication (Latuda) that for the most part keeps me out of the Psych ward and seems to treat every other part of my mental illness for the most part like the voices, the delusions, the hearing things that aren't really there, just mostly my psychotic symptoms. I haven't had any of this happen in years and my Latuda does a great job at fixing all of this. Latuda is supposed to work for both Psychosis AND mania and one of my psychiatrists said that i should be on one medication for insurance purposes. So that's why I switched from Saphris (which also did a great job at my psychotic symptoms) to Latuda.
I am just mostly risky and manic a majority of the year for several months on end. When I was in the ICU in new Hamphire a couple years ago the psychiatrists there didn't seem to think that my mental illness wasn't being treated. In fact one of the nurses there that was extremely kind to me because she has a son my age mentioned that she's had a lot of experience with mental health issues and seemed to think that my symptoms at the time were normal because I had suffered Blood clots, that were literally everywhere but my brain, the loss of my dog, and was taken several states away from my wife for several weeks because New Hampshire was the closest state that was equipped to handle my medical problems and had beds available at the time. Basically the trauma that I suffered that week was enough to make anybody crazy let alone a mentally ill person who without medication has periods of time where he doesn't even know who he is or what's going on.
i'm not really asking for medical advice which i know is forbidden, or for any advice on what meds to take or anything like thaf I will go to my psychiatrist with this information in a few weeks and see what he recommends and what he has to say but I am asking if a nurse, doctor, or somebody that either has a mental illness or has experience helping somebody with one like mine perhaps a spouse or family member has any helpful information on this subject and perhaps can either explain what's going on or can provide some comfort and advice.
My mother who was a fantastic nurse for over 40 years has had some experience in this area but didn't work in a Psych ward and mostly dealt with old people and babies and she dealt with medical problems and medications and didn't really have very many patients who had mental issues like i do. She could recognize during my first psychotic episode that something was wrong with me but she needed a psychiatrist to diagnose what was actually wrong. So my mother can't really provide the support and guidance that I need hence, why I made this topic.
I've confessed to this before and things just havent changed. For those who don't know me from a needle in a haystack ill explain just what the issue is and everything thats happened so far. Generally I am manic a majority of the year for several months at a time I mostly never shared this with a doctor because I thought it was "normal" for people with mental Illnesses to get manic and engage in risky behavior which in my instance happens to be spending my wifes money foolishly and on things that don't matter. In fact, right now my wife and I have almost 8k in credit card debt and my wife and I only make about 25k give or take a year.
In fact ChatGPT calls my mental illness untreated despite me being on medication (Latuda) that for the most part keeps me out of the Psych ward and seems to treat every other part of my mental illness for the most part like the voices, the delusions, the hearing things that aren't really there, just mostly my psychotic symptoms. I haven't had any of this happen in years and my Latuda does a great job at fixing all of this. Latuda is supposed to work for both Psychosis AND mania and one of my psychiatrists said that i should be on one medication for insurance purposes. So that's why I switched from Saphris (which also did a great job at my psychotic symptoms) to Latuda.
I am just mostly risky and manic a majority of the year for several months on end. When I was in the ICU in new Hamphire a couple years ago the psychiatrists there didn't seem to think that my mental illness wasn't being treated. In fact one of the nurses there that was extremely kind to me because she has a son my age mentioned that she's had a lot of experience with mental health issues and seemed to think that my symptoms at the time were normal because I had suffered Blood clots, that were literally everywhere but my brain, the loss of my dog, and was taken several states away from my wife for several weeks because New Hampshire was the closest state that was equipped to handle my medical problems and had beds available at the time. Basically the trauma that I suffered that week was enough to make anybody crazy let alone a mentally ill person who without medication has periods of time where he doesn't even know who he is or what's going on.
i'm not really asking for medical advice which i know is forbidden, or for any advice on what meds to take or anything like thaf I will go to my psychiatrist with this information in a few weeks and see what he recommends and what he has to say but I am asking if a nurse, doctor, or somebody that either has a mental illness or has experience helping somebody with one like mine perhaps a spouse or family member has any helpful information on this subject and perhaps can either explain what's going on or can provide some comfort and advice.
My mother who was a fantastic nurse for over 40 years has had some experience in this area but didn't work in a Psych ward and mostly dealt with old people and babies and she dealt with medical problems and medications and didn't really have very many patients who had mental issues like i do. She could recognize during my first psychotic episode that something was wrong with me but she needed a psychiatrist to diagnose what was actually wrong. So my mother can't really provide the support and guidance that I need hence, why I made this topic.
