For those of you with sza bipolar type have you experienced an increase in psychotic symptoms when you were manic? If so, did you get a feeling like it was a different form of psychosis?
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I felt like I was superior. I could do anything. This last mania has left me deep in debt farther than I could ever get out of. I have destroyed my marriage and hurt a lot of people. Mania is way harder than depression i think.
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I haven’t been manic or depressed since I’ve been on lithium. I did go psychotic with hallucinations for about 4 years until I think the invega knocked down the volume
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I’ve always been psychotic. When I was manic, depressed, and when my mood was stable. Right now, my mood is stable and I’m not psychotic. I’ve been in my present state for two years now which is remission.
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Yes, I become psychotic when I am manic and experience mixed states.
But I think I also experience psychosis when my moods are stable.
This places me in the Schizoaffective camp.
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I have worse symptoms when depressed though I am psychotic all the time
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I didn’t become psychotic when I was manic. It was separate.
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I’m psychotic constantly, but it is heightened when I’m manic. That’s usually when the “snap” happens and I have to go to the hospital. I’ll experience delusions of grandeur and command voices/demonic visions while having the manic energy enough to act on wild impulses (i.e. self harm and suicide).
I hope that answered your questions.
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Yes when I’m high (very rarely now with my meds) I get delusions of grandeur and Alien’s voice in my head a lot. I tend to get more mixed highs not much pure highs.
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