Looking for advice and suggestions..

Hi @AaronH welcome to the forum.

Good on you for being brave in overcoming your nervousness about posting here. Everything you said about your experience is the kind of thing many of us here talk about all the time. We share our experiences good and bad in an ongoing way here.

There are others I know here who have been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. First one I think of is the lovely @Bunniekins. I myself have been diagnosed with bipolar 1, which is kind of half of schizoaffective, the extreme up and downs and round and abouts with mood.

I know that some people get diagnosed with an array of different conditions. I am not a mental health professional, but I personally feel too many labels may be the opposite of helpful. I suggest you talk to them about that at your next session, perhaps asking how it can help you in the future to mentally take on all those labels for yourself. Above all, your psychologist is there to help you.

Hearing you about having a lot of psych or medical appointments but little in the way of other social connections. I have felt the same many times in my life and even now often struggle to leave my home due to the depression and anxiety that has over the years been the main feature of my condition.

Thank you so much for reassuring us about your suicidal ideations, that you will not act on these. Good that you are noticing them though. As you know, things like that are a good indicator of where we are really at in our mental health struggles.

All length of posts are allowed here. Talk as long or as little as you want and feel free to join in to any discussion you read here. You will find the majority of responses you get are very kind.

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Welcome again.

Hi @AaronH , I have schizoaffective disorder too and anxiety. I've also been struggling to find good information about schizoaffective disorder, but a youtube channel I really like is "Living Well with Schizophrenia" which is by a young woman in Canada who lives with schizoaffective disorder. I like to try to remember all the things in my life that aren't related to schizoaffective disorder - I am more than my diagnoses.

Sometimes I struggle with the mundaneness of life, too. Life just kind of blurs a little, you know?? For me, I like to remember that everyone's life is a bit mundane - even Bill Gates puts his pants on one leg at a time. I'm also trying to do a gratitude journal of three things that I'm grateful for, which helps me remember what's special and important. There is a GRATITUDE thread in the 'looking after yourself' forum that you might like to participate on.

Thank you everyone for taking the time to give me a warm welcome and some useful information. I will take it on board.

I look forward to actively participating in the forum...I'll try my best!

Hi @AaronH and @Former-Member

I'm glad you found your way to the forum. Just wanted to say that I read your posts.

I was a slow starter - thought/worried/flip-flopped for 2 years before taking the plunge and posting.

Now I wish I did it sooner!

All the best! 🙂

@frog thank you 🙂

It has been a weight off my shoulders coming on here.

I hope you are doing well.