I am just trying to figure this out. I have had some sort of insight that something was terribly wrong before meds… but my aunt (not related by blood) she stopped the meds and she doesn’t believe she is wrong people are conspiring against her and plotting against her …
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I was told by my therapist that I can’t be psychotic or delusion if I have insight. I tried to explain I know that I WAS sick after not during an episode.
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Insight varies. The doctors who say it doesn’t are simply wrong. Their views are long outdated. I’ve been told this by numerous professionals, including a professor who does research on treatments for schizophrenia for a living.
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The psychosis between both disorders are pretty similar.
There is sometimes more euphoria and grandiose delusions involved with bipolar disorder.
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I’m bipolar and it would be hard to tell. When I’m going thru a manic episode its more positive things though as opposed to paranoia. I get really confident and waste my money for stupid reasons that make no sense.
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Well people with bipolar don’t have (aren’t supposed to have) the same cognitive problems as those with sz. And those with sz wouldn’t be experiencing mania or depression or whatever during. But the psychosis itself I believe is more or less the same aside from that.
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I have bipolar with psychosis and it seems that the experience is comparable to what most schizophrenics experience. I am absent of most cognitive symptoms as much as I can tell and negative symptoms aren’t a problem ether. Although I do feel a little slower after my most recent psychotic episode but it also could be because of untreated sleep apnea.
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From what I have heard, people with schizophrenia have more psychotic symptoms than those with schizoaffective and bipolar. I am not 100% sure though because I am not competent enough in the field yet.
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Somewhat true. We have similar problems with memory and stuff like that but it tends to be more mild.
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Probably, because schizophrenics are suffering from schizophrenia during their psychosis, while bipolars are not.
I am sza and I suffered terrible paranoid psychosis for 33 years of my life along with other delusions, and hallucinations and I had to contend with depression and suicidality along with it. It was horrible. I wouldn’t wish it on anybody. And I resent anybody trying to imply or suggest that what I went through was somehow “not as bad as” or “not as severe an illness as” regular sz. I wish this forum wasn’t so much in the business of comparisons.
You got me wrong. As I have bipolar and my aunt has schiz. This lady said my aunt has a different Illness hense she can’t have insignt. Whereas I did have insight. That’s not to say no one suffers. I’m just trying to do research.
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