Never mind dating worries, does your employer know you have this issue?

"I do not want to worry about someone waking me up in the night with a knife at my throat for something they heard in their head. Unfortunately, that is a common thing with Schizophrenic Disorder. "

When I was at university, we had to check our bags at its bookstore entrance. A guy who was a major in bag checking, killed his mother with a knife in my third year there. The school newspaper made a mention that he had been a schizophrenic.

Apparently it is NOT a common thing for schizophrenics to be violent. You have a greater chance to kill someone if you have a common cold than if you have schizophrenia. Even PMS (for women) or doing a bad job at buttoning up your shirt or tying your shoelaces wrong (for guys) are a higher indication to kill someone that day than being a schizophrenic.

I have no clue what schizoaffective disorder means. Means you are an affectionately schizophrening?

Dating is very hard for everyone, but it is very hard when you have to keep secrets about yourself. I have Schizo affective disorder, otherwise known as Formal Thought Disorder. It is a serious mental illness which has some schizophrenic features and depression or bipolar. I have been hospitalized and baker acted( forcibly hospitalized) a few times for mental illness. I hear voices, when I don't take my medications...That is pretty scary for me and my family. During my last relapse, I heard voices coming through the television, telephone, air conditioning ducts and my home became a prison to me.
People don't normally think schizo affective or mental illness, when they visualize me. It is something I deal with everyday.
My issue is this. Should I disclose this information to man before I date him. I am scared of people judging me in a negative light. I am totally fine, when I take my medications...but there is always that fear of another psychotic episode.
Should I disclose this information to interested parties or should I wait to get to know someone.

Good luck with that. Wow. Life just isn't fair.

People with STDs, HIV, AIDS......etc should tell people about their diseases . Hiding the truth makes people feel deceived and manipulated .

I think I understand where it is you're trying to go with that point, but equating mental disorders with diseases that are commonly transmitted through sex; lessen that to anything is just contagious in any aspect is just absurd.

Understanding is the keyword.

Being afflicted doesn't turn you into a degenerate or the next Eddie Gein. It requries one to discipline theirself and to take responsibility.
I've seen people with no such condition do far worse than most of those, self included, with such a condition.

I do not want to worry about someone waking me up in the night with a knife at my throat for something they heard in their head. Unfortunately, that is a common thing with Schizophrenic Disorder. "

When I was at university, we had to check our bags at its bookstore entrance. A guy who was a major in bag checking, killed his mother with a knife in my third year there. The school newspaper made a mention that he had been a schizophrenic.

Apparently it is NOT a common thing for schizophrenics to be violent. You have a greater chance to kill someone if you have a common cold than if you have schizophrenia. Even PMS (for women) or doing a bad job at buttoning up your shirt or tying your shoelaces wrong (for guys) are a higher indication to kill someone that day than being a schizophrenic.

I have no clue what schizoaffective disorder means. Means you are an affectionately schizophrening

Everyone with mental health issues isn't a danger to society....

All those meds do is cut you off from your psychic senses but they are still there.

On an ignorant level professionals call the effects of what spirits do a disorder.

All those meds do is cut you off from your psychic senses but they are still there

Professional psychiatrist and doctors are examples of people who are ignorant.

They admit that they don't know what the causes are and that is why their job is a 'practice' because they don't know.

While the exact cause of schizoaffective disorder is not known, researchers believe that genetic, biochemical, and environmental factors are involved.

Genetics (heredity) : A tendency to develop schizoaffective disorder may be passed on from parents to their children.

Brain chemistry : People with schizophrenia and mood disorders may have an imbalance of certain chemicals in the brain. These chemicals, called neurotransmitters, are substances that help nerve cells in the brain send messages to each other. An imbalance in these chemicals can interfere with the transmission of messages, leading to symptoms.

Environmental factors : Evidence suggests that certain environmental factors -- such as a viral infection, poor social interactions or highly stressful situations -- may trigger schizoaffective disorder in people who have inherited a tendency to develop the disorder.

What they could do is keep researching and figuring out a solution that addresses the cause to eliminate it altogether before treatment.

The only problem is the solution has been found and there is no money in it so their practice is just a business exploiting the suffering.

If you want to be intelligent, I suggest that you ask for clarification, do research, or figure out why a person says what they do before attacking them.