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Dabble in Tarot Cards, Witchcraft, Palm Reading, Ouija Boards, “spirit calling”, “Spirit Cooking”, and any false religion can easily bring about Demonic Possession - or in today’s language, “Psychosis”.
Sounds more like schizoaffective.
Bipolar dx is such a long process/time consuming one needs to do inpatient and observe behavior over a period of time.
Charting/mapping highs and lows can be tough without proper journaling otherwise?
How does one differentiate a psychotic break, manic episodes, depressive episodes then detail it’s bi polar and not possibly a psychotic break as bipolar?
Worked years and with patients and happy I was a psych RN but not the Dr adding the diagnosis. Some were real hard and had more than a dual diagnosis.
Don’t know but you can certainly have both.
Stupid me. I always thought bipolar disorder was a subset of psychosis.
A Chicken and Egg situation, for sure.
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It was twenty years ago this winter that I was first diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. It’s been hell to live with. It’s cost me jobs, friendships and family, even a marriage. Psychosis is thankfully something I have been spared. In fact, I can’t really recall anyone with manic depression having psychosis.
Sadly, some delusions can be very pathetic. For example, the worst writer and commentary wit I know truly believes he’s the “next Rush Limbaugh”. It’s highly insulting to the memory of Rush - and to most readers’ intelligence. Yet, some play into his delusions on a daily basis. Sigh.
They’re on to us...
When they are in “hypermanic” phase, a bipolar patient can display schizophrenic like behaviour. Not all bipolars get hypermanic however.
IIRC.
I knew a classic bipolar(used to be called manic-depressive). I could see it coming on...person would be working very hard, very talkative, giddy, buying lots of unnecessary stuff, then would get angry, combative, and riled up, want to fight at the slightest provocation, then slowly go into clinical depression...laying in bed for weeks reporting he “had grief in his head”.
Fortunately , lithium, and antidepressants evened his moods out. And he was able to work until retirement. Unfortunately his symptoms in early life hampered any good education or other opportunities.
Yes!
I was the charge nurse of a psychiatric unit for two years. I saw several cases of bi-polar psychosis.
Can’t we just categorize them all under the heading of “CRAZIES”? If there’s a treatment, treat ‘em; if not, watch ‘em. Don’t leave ‘em running around endangering the rest of us.