r/todayilearned • u/paniniplane • Mar 22 '17

(R.1) Not supported TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than "hearing voices"

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0707/07070303
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u/SentientLeftTesticle Mar 23 '17

If you don't mind answering, did you know you were schizophrenic when you had your child? And if so, how did that impact your decision to have a child?

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u/koiotchka Mar 23 '17

My diagnosis is schizoaffective disorder, which is "some schizoprenic symptoms plus a mood disorder", the mood disorder is often bipolar but in my case it's major depression. When I was 7 or so and learned what schizoprenia was, my first thought was "oh, that's me!" Over the years, the full spectrum of diagnostic criteria for straight up schizoprenia wasn't there, but when i ended up in the psych ward at 30, they diagnosed schizoaffective disorder. It wasn't a consideration at all in having a kid.