Billy82

I have exactly this I am sure. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia because of it. Now however my doctor thinks I was misdiagnosed and it is OCD or Asperger’s. My best advice would be to see a psychiatrist. I only wish I had gotten help sooner. Good luck.

Dude I believe I did much worse than that. I’m too scared to tell my doctor. One thing I will never let myself be again though is depressed. It causes too much damage. Get well soon.

I’m awaiting my diagnosis and I am writing down symptoms for my doc. I’ve really opened up. I think I have a false memory of doing something bad because I can remember when I started thinking it. I’m just afraid that if I tell the doctor he will check and they will find out it happened. How do I know? What will happen if I tell them? In UK.

The big thing for me would be that I would only have to take an antidepressant rather than risperidone. I an currently on 3mg daily of risperidone so not that high but although the side effects aren’t as bad as other antipsych meds I’ve had it does make everything a real chore and I don’t get out of bed without caffeine. I don’t want to get ahead of myself but I can’t help but think about what life will be like if I can come off them. This was all thanks to getting some tics looked at which all of a sudden got worse. The neurologist said I wasn’t a typical case because no typical comorbids, no family history and no childhood diagnosis then my psychiatrist ended up having to look at his notes and decided that a diagnosis of Asp or OCD would explain some of my anomalies. I mean I don’t know if I can start work or study or what I can do. I agree with you I could have both… I even think I could have schizophrenia too but obvs I hope I don’t. Then I could get compensation and I don’t know what I’d do with that.

Thanks for replying. I noticed a difference from day one of the new meds although there was a bit of a shaky phase after that. One other problem I have is that I have been on antipsychotics (risperidone) for fifteen years and I have to come off those. The withdrawal symptoms are similar to a psychotic episode. I reduced my dose by a quarter a while back and I thought I’d end up in hospital. Citalopram has already started to give me my life back though.

I was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2007. My new psychiatrist now wants to give me a diagnosis of OCD or Asperger’s. I bought an audiobook about each of them and I seem to tick a lot of boxes for having both. The doctor has already started me on citalopram and I am functioning much more like an ordinary person and most of all enjoying myself. As it will be about four months before I see the psych again does anyone here have anything to prepare me? Tx.

Hello. I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia since 2007 but now my doctor thinks I may only have OCD. Did anyone else ever receive a misdiagnosis like this and what was the outcome?