Bipolar Disorder Support Group

Yes, but not often, psychosis is normally more BP1.

Can a person change diagnosis over time? Can you start of BPII and change into schizoaffective? My psych evaluator thought it was possible I might be schizoaffective...but I don't think so because the episodes are episodes...it isn't all the time.

any my symptoms seem to correspond to stress...not necesarily a mood state...

I am schizoaffective and I have "episodes" of psychosis. It's not all the time, like schizophrenia. It is possible you could be schizoaffective. I had many of the same symptoms that you described before I was dxd and put on the right meds.

Hi Faith,
I have a few of those issues:

The shadows out of the corner of your eye
I feel things crawling on me sometimes
supsicious...usually with good cause
surreal at times
hear my name now and again
smell crank....but it could really be there at the nearest crack house

I don't know much about any of it, xcept my dis lawyer when he saw i was bi-polar was the first to ever ask me about seeing things out of the corner of my eye...like shadows going by...so that part is bp.


oh yeah...the plot...well i don't feel there is a family plot against me, but i do feel some witch cursed me.

i am knew to knowing that others share alot of this, so i don't really know where it falls.

Standart answer: Talk to you Pdoc...especially the feeling that family plotting against you concerns me.
Also the sirens while driving can be dangerous for you.

Why do we have similar psychotic experiences? For me it is the shadows, feeling of bugs on me, and hearing my damn name.

What is with that?

I have a few of those things.... but shhhhh don't tell... "they" will use it against me.

Yes have some of those things, and the pdoc prescribed risperdal. I no longer have those feelings. I have only been dxd with bp.

i can realate to all of the symptoms that faith posted now i know i am definitely bp1 i remember for the longest time thinking people hated me or were out to get me and i rememeber hearing things that wereen't there and seeing shadows in the corner of my eye like one day i was sitting on my couch and i could swear i kept seeing a shadow on my stair case everytime i looked back it was gone

Before risperdal and lamictal I use to see shadow people, some were soft and some were sharp and both seemed angry. I even had a soft one jump inside of me and divide into a million and they would not leave. Yes, I was always paranoid and sometimes still am afraid that someone is following me. And feeling surreal is and understatement. It was very exciting but also scary to be me without meds.