Anyone with schizophrenia get mania?

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Just curious because I’m not sure if there is such a thing?! Last year I started suffering from depression again not only due to my psychosis but from outside discrimination when walking to work or being at work due to an outfit I liked to wear in the rave scene. So I was put on anti depressants again. After the discrimination got too much I ODed on Zoloft and now I get lots crazy euphoric mania! I am on valproate and it does help a little bit.

But being moved to Sydney my psychiatrist changed. The first psychiatrist I saw here diagnosed me with “Schizophrenia and a Mood disorder” but I got moved on to another psychiatrist for longer term treatment. I was then put in hospital for 2 weeks. That’s two psychiatrists that have failed to diagnose with what the condition actually is other than a mood disorder…They changed from Risperidone to Abilify as well. The Risperidone was starting to give me headaches anyway…

My mate reckons I might have bipolar with psychosis and I’m starting to think he may be right! Or maybe it could be serotonin syndrome. I listen to tons of music and have even started creating music.

What are your thoughts and does anyone else experience this?

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Mania causes changes in mood. You can be really sad, really happy or both. I just get extreme happiness.I also suffer from a bit of anxiety too…

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Doens’t that mean you would have schizoaffective bipolar disorder? That’s what I was diagnosed with, because of my mixed depression and psychosis that won’t quit.
Sometimes I really miss my racing thoughts, endless energy, and undying happiness :frowning:

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Only when I don’t take my meds for a couple of days!

If your medicated it might make it look like something else like bipolar, but their is no way to tell. Hence people end up with more than one or changes in their diagnosis.

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yea I’ve had a couple manic episodes which weren’t pleasant like I thought they would be. It was more like extreme anger that I couldn’t control and talking incessantly while feeling that I wasn’t getting my point across. They treated me with an antipsychotic so I guess it doesn’t make much of a difference anyway

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I suffer mania when I don’t sleep well. OCD thoughts.

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I get mania and obsessed with things can be good or bad, depends on what I get obsessed about.

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I have mania too… The diagnosis doesn’t matter so much, as long as the treatment works.

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during my manic episode i had sex with someone i didn’t know, dreaded my hair, felt so happy & on top of the world and very spiritual. i felt like nothing could break me. it lasted about a month or so and everything came crashing down and it was really hard to deal with

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Yup, the crashing down is what hurts often, if I get it for work realted stuff, can be good, I can make more money

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it’s common during mania, and that’s not the type of person i generally am.

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coming from someone who has male virgin in his bio. i think that’s what’s really unnecessary, but hey what do i know

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I haven’t had a crash yet…Hopefully I don’t :smiley:

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just because you haven’t had sex with a stranger or someone you don’t know well doesn’t mean you’ve never experienced mania.

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But if you could find someone who did…

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