Schizoaffective bipolar

Hi @Ayesha 🙂

I just read your post and wondered if these threads may be of interest to you.

New diagnosis schizoaffective bipolar here

Managing schizoaffective disorder here

Living with schzoaffective disorder here

I hope you these are a good starting point.

Hi @Ayesha, your take on auditory and visual hallucinations is perfect, I could not have described them better. I hear 3 people with my ears external to my head in which they discuss what I am doing, issue commands, swear and laugh at me. My voices are always derogatory in nature and, for the most part, really get me down. However my mind rushes from point to point and lately the only way to sleep is bombing myself out on medication to prevent the point of collapse. I am desperately depressed, but at the same time I can't switch off. It is very irritating to say the least.

You ask how sza's cope? I ask myself the same question in my own thread. I seem at present to cope very badly as I am in the hospital being treated for a combination of schizophrenia and a depressive episode (even though bipolar has been thrown into the mix because of my inability to switch off my thoughts and my brain is on constant GO without medication intervention).

For my voices at the moment, I am constantly listening to music via my phone. I've made online music streaming my friend! I also take lengthy showers either too hot or too cold as a form of grounding exercise. It works with mixed affect. I am basically surviving on a mixture of mood stabilisers, antidepressants and antipsychotics to get by. I know I need more, but for now that's the stop-gap solution in such a crisis situation.

I hope this has answered some of your question without too much of a ramble, take care, Q.