Posted by linkadge on November 21, 2003, at 16:35:24
In reply to Re: Bipolar or Schizophrenia, What's the diff.?, posted by stjames on November 21, 2003, at 16:09:21
Just to add to what St. James said. Some cases of bipolar disorder display changes of thought as well. In certain cases of severe severe mania, reality may becomes distorted, a person can claim to have special sences, delusions and paranoia etc may be present. As well, depression may be psychotic in which a person can have a distorted perseption of reality such as hearing things, and difficuly distingushing between the past and present.
But yes, primarily bipolar is characterized by fluctuations in the mood, where schitsophrenia is a disease of distored perceptions and thinking.
One lady I met in a psychward was so manic that she believed she was God's fundemental creation next to Jesus. She would not talk to anybody because she beleived they were creations of the devil, and that she was the earth's last pure being.
There is a great deal of overlap between the two illnesses. Bipolar mania, can sucessfully be treated with anipsychotic medication, which poses the question, is the fluctuation in mood a reaction to the destored perception.
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