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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Or Schizophrenia ?

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Hi all,

since 1994 that I have been diagnosed as having a neurosis but my illness got so worse in 2002 that I had auditive hallucinations (two voices talking to each other and voices commenting what I was thinking and doing), mind reading, thought broadcasting, strong delusions, .... These hallucinations and delusions kept on for 8 months without treatment.

My psychiatrist keeps on telling me that I still have a neurosis and not schizophrenia. He is sure about it.

There is another psychiatrist that thinks that I am schizoaffective.

Someone told me the following thing:

"occasional patients with schizophrenia may be misdiagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Obsessions and compulsions are indeed frequently present in schizophrenia; however, a person with true obsessive-compulsive disorder will not have the thought disorder, delusions, hallucinations, or other symptoms that are also present in schizophrenia."

do you think that I have schizophrenia according to what I have said and what my psychiatrists think of my illness ?

Is it possible that someone with ocd develops psychotic symptoms for 8 months without that being schizophrenia ?

Regards,
luis
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