I used to participate in this forum I think since 2015 or 2016. Shared a lot of information with different people because I was actually diagnosed as a person with schizophrenia. It’s weird to say that in 2018 my diagnosis is schizoaffective. Then in 2020 it’s bipolar. They say it’s common in psychiatry to have wrong diagnoses, but from schizophrenia to schizoaffective and then bipolar… I felt it’s pretty uncommon (not to say weird and unfair).
Maybe NIDS (Neuroleptic Induced Deficit Syndrom), I don’t know, but having the right diagnosis and taking the right meds is wonderful.
Maybe the diagnoses were not wrong? Maybe you and your symptoms have changed over the last 8 years? So what I’m saying is that it’s possible that the diagnosis in 2016 was correct, based on the symptoms you were presenting–at that time. Same thing for the other diagnoses.
my current private theory is that bipolar and schizophrenia are the same thing – mania and psychosis are the same thing
Theyre both treatable with the same medicine – antipsychotics
They both happen in response to stress
I think that what happens is that, ahead of time, our brains withhold neurochemicals & neurotransmitters that are usually associated with positive emotion & extraversion (leading to negatives in schizophrenia, and depression episodes in bipolar)
and instead, when we might be super stressed or just at a certain threshold, it releases these neurotransmitters on the neuropathways that are causing us stress. So instead of certain thoughts causing us stress, it’s actually now very addictive and fun and exciting to think of these thoughts.
And it gives you high mood
The extra neurotransmitters lead to certain brain connections happening very fast and easily (linking random ideas or random sensory experiences very strongly together – a.k.a delusions & hallucinations) while other thoughts are much harder to think (cognitive and memory symptoms)
and i think that depending from episode to episode or person to person, some people experience more mood symptoms (bipolar / mania-oriented) while others experience more of the delusions / hallucinations (schizophrenia / psychosis-oriented) while some people have both at once (mania plus psychotic symptoms, or schizoaffective )
When the connecting chemicals between the “synapses” are more in the brain and its time to think, it randomly connects all the thoughts(Neurons) and feels its right because it makes the connection strong. And we feel it’s real. When the meds are taken these extra chemicals are reduced.
I think cognition is the after effects of the above action, such as standardization or reworked thoughts and those stay in unstandardized ways which creates confusion and memory loss is like deja vu effects when the connections are intertwined.
For me when I study for an exam, and before exam I think do i remember anything , but I don’t remember until questions are asked.
I think memory is related to two cases one is meds and other is doubt.
I think the biggest difference between schizophrenia and bipolar is that mood stabilizers work wonderfully for bipolar. I take my mood stabilizers and I get pretty stable, not crying and being sad all the time and other things. Mood stabilizers won’t work the same way for people with schizophrenia. With mood stabilizers, I take a very small dosis of antipsychotic. But it happens because I’m in the bipolar spectrum. It’s a different condition.
Maybe when some bipolar are in mania with mixed psychotic episode it may happen. Mood stabilizers + antipsychotics work pretty well for that. A lot of stress is bad for bipolar too. Anyway, bipolar is usually known for having a longer ups and downs in his/her mood (not so quick as you described).
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It seems there is a condition called NIDS (Neuroleptic Induced Deficit Syndrom). It happens when antipsychotics bring “negative symptoms” to the patient, then he’s wrongly diagnosed as schizophrenic instead of bipolar (or any other condition). When I weaned off antipsychotics, my negative symptoms disappeared. Anyway, my family had put me in psych ward again and there the doctor noticed my diagnosis was wrong. We figured out it better when mood stabilizers worked wonderfully for me. It all made my quality of life much better.
Still, do not wean off your medicines as I did. It’s dumb. I’m an exception.
