Hello.... I'm diagnosed with bipolor
disorder , had my first real "mania"
6 yrs ago....
When I was ill, I saw things like one day
I turned on my computer and saw jesus
walking in a field of tall wheat he
turned to me and spoke to me...
I also during my episode had thoughts that
I was a prophet for god and that I was
here to enlighten the world with my poetry
.... I also beleived that my husband
was secretly a spy and that at the age of
40 evryone should be forced to
divorce......
My question is .... What is the
difference between my experience in mania
(hallucinations) verses those of
skitsophrenia?
I really don't see the difference, any
help on this or insight would be greatly
appreciated
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Liz26
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 51
Posted: 10-29-05 14:38pm
Your symptoms sound more like
schizophrenia than bipolar disorder. What
other symptoms have you had? Do you have
mood swings?
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poetprose
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 22 Location: Ontario
Posted: 10-30-05 06:33am
Well my first diagnosis was cyclomythia
but then after they put me on celexa anti
depressant I went manic, hyper sexual,
writing poetry all the time, playing the
same music over and over again...
Trying to get more out of the music.
Alot of noise in my head like an orchestra
, someone calling my name
i told my pdoc I thought I had scitso
effective she said , it doesnt matter it
is the same medication for both
i also was diagnosed with post tramatic
stress ....
But still I have had no symptoms for over
4 yrs with no meds
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firefly09
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 45 Location: UK
Posted: 01-05-06 02:17am
Hi, your question is a good one. From
what I understand its very hard to
distinguish one from the other because
most mental illness overlap each other.
|for exmaple depression overlaps bipolar
and bipolar overlaps schizophrenia. I
have also experienced what you have ....
The music ... The poetry .. Hearing from
god. I had suffered from just depression
for about 18 months before I had a manic
episode in which these things happened. I
think to be able to tell bipolar mania
from schizophrenia is this
>>>> schizophrenia delusions
are there all the time unless u take
medication but with bipolar they are only
there when u are in a manic epsidoe or
really really depressed episode... U can
go periods of time in between feeling
normal and ok.
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Himmler
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Washington
Posted: 07-28-06 07:12am
Bipolar is considered a serious mental
illness, and has psychotic types /
symptoms. You can be bipolar and have
hallucinations, as well as confusion and
ideation. The difficulty is in the
distinguishment with your personal
"normal" modes and effections due to your
mental structure. Schizoprhenia is sort
of like a bipolar where the person becomes
more inhibited (especially socially) and
experiences not only far aeccentric
thought, but thought disorder. So instead
of wondering if your hallucinations are
signs of schizophrenia (whic they could be
bipolar, quite notabley, as above), I
would ask yourself if you have any mental
deficits that are worsening or somesuch.
Such examples would be like if you begin
to have difficulty with normal mental
tasks like addition, or remembering
important dates (provided these are new
symptoms, and not just a characteristic of
a forgetful person).
