Don’t know if it’s a symptom or not of schiz or bipolar but I’ve bought a phone 4 times and cancelled every time. I’ve been buying things…and changing mind it’s really difficult to understand why I want something one mins and not the next. Why I’m excited about something one min and not the next.
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Yes, it’s especially apparent when I’m grocery shopping .-.
It’s psychosis? It’s hard to understand and differentiate symptoms
I don’t think mine is a symptom of psychosis; perhaps illness in general though.
I also have ADHD and SZA bipolar so I tend to be spendy and indecisive; I think it’s the bipolar and ADHD in me.
I’ve spent a lot of money in my life 
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When off meds i get racing thoughts about stuff I want, once I get it, i have no use for it, wasted a lot of money over the years. On meds I can think it out better and don’t go buying stuff I don’t really want.
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You get it when manic and then you change your mind ? Im trying to understand it but it seems my only symptom right now is inability to make decisions and buying because of it.
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Yes, mostly when manic, I feel I need the junk, get all excited ordering it online, then by the time it arrives, I don’t want it.
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It could possibly be a manic thing, impulsiveness and all that, but it’s hard to say.
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I do the same thing. I’m forever buying things and then cancelling the orders. Usually because ultimately, I don’t want to spend the money. Or, I really don’t need the item or service. I’m sza.
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I had similar inability to decide and when I started taking Buspar for anxiety that problem largely disappeared.
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I’m the same way @anon80629714.
I’ve bought 4 different iPhones and then cancelled and returned them!
It’s a bipolar thing (impulsiveness)
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As I understand it, buying way too much is a symptom of mania. Not being able to make up your mind is ambivalence and that is a symptom of schizophrenia. You may notice some people with schizophrenia writing one affirmation and in the next sentence denying it. Ambivalence is not being able to make a decision and then lacking the resolve to feel good about a decision once made.
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I guess I am bipolar too. I can not make decisions.
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hey i have this too
my psych gave a medical term for this symptom but i don’t know how to translate it in english
it’s like you are ambivalent but in regard to deciding
she said i was ambitendentan (ambitendented?)
for example once i went to buy something to clean my bathroom
probably stayed there for like 15 minutes deciding which product to buy
i take one from shelf read label get that one back and take another then third then again second etc
security got nervous lol
it’s like that whenever i have to pick one thing over other or when i have to organize my day
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