# I may not be sz but ptsd with psychotic features
**URL:** https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/i-may-not-be-sz-but-ptsd-with-psychotic-features/487
**Category:** Diagnosed Sz or Sza
**Created:** [December 17, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/i-may-not-be-sz-but-ptsd-with-psychotic-features/487 "2025-12-17T19:11:25Z")
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### Author:  [@Twialine](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Twialine)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/i-may-not-be-sz-but-ptsd-with-psychotic-features/487/1 "2025-12-17T19:11:25Z")
I don’t hallucinate 24/7 even off meds and I haven’t had a hallucination in over a month…. Also my mother and I had a falling out…. It’s been…. Weird but enjoyable not having her on my back all the time
Btw my nurse practitioner is considering taking sz off my illness list…. I may be able to come off ap meds I’m also on non stimulant adhd meds that helps a lot….
Thanks for listening yall!
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### Author:  [@everhopeful](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/everhopeful)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/i-may-not-be-sz-but-ptsd-with-psychotic-features/487/2 "2025-12-17T19:13:31Z")
> [@Twialine](#):
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> I don’t hallucinate 24/7 even off meds
I don’t hallucinate **at all** , even off meds. But I’m still diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia though.
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### Author:  [@Twialine](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Twialine)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/i-may-not-be-sz-but-ptsd-with-psychotic-features/487/3 "2025-12-17T19:14:47Z")
> [@everhopeful](#):
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> don’t hallucinate **at all** , even off meds. But I’m still diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia though.
May I ask why you’re diagnosed with sz if you don’t hallucinate??
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### Author:  [@everhopeful](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/everhopeful)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/i-may-not-be-sz-but-ptsd-with-psychotic-features/487/4 "2025-12-17T19:15:38Z")
You don’t need to hallucinate to be diagnosed with it. I met other criteria.
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### Author:  [@Twialine](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Twialine)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/i-may-not-be-sz-but-ptsd-with-psychotic-features/487/5 "2025-12-17T19:16:52Z")
@everhopeful I still think I’m more likely to be ptsd not sz my symptoms seem to be getting better with CBT and I’m doing better
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### Author:  [@everhopeful](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/everhopeful)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/i-may-not-be-sz-but-ptsd-with-psychotic-features/487/6 "2025-12-17T19:17:47Z")
Ok, be careful coming off meds . Go back on them if things go south.
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### Author:  [@Twialine](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Twialine)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/i-may-not-be-sz-but-ptsd-with-psychotic-features/487/7 "2025-12-17T19:19:04Z")
@everhopeful I will and I’m doing it with nurse practitioner guidance… but also my sz hardly ever got better with meds or if it did it wasn’t effective long
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### Author:  [@Ish](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/Ish)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/i-may-not-be-sz-but-ptsd-with-psychotic-features/487/8 "2025-12-17T20:21:29Z")
You can have delusions and be diagnosed with it. I do.
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### Author:  [@SzSupportAdmin](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/SzSupportAdmin)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/i-may-not-be-sz-but-ptsd-with-psychotic-features/487/9 "2025-12-17T20:24:20Z")
I have only really hallucinated once.
Edit: Make that twice. I forgot about an audio one.
Edit:2 ok 3 times. I keep forgetting an instance.
Point is, not much.
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### Author:  [@SzSupportAdmin](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/u/SzSupportAdmin)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2025, 10:03am UTC](https://schizophreniasupport.discourse.group/t/i-may-not-be-sz-but-ptsd-with-psychotic-features/487/10 "2025-12-23T10:03:19Z")