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Old Oct 10, 2011, 04:12 PM
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Thanks everyone for your responses. I don't really think that whatever is going on is a big deal, since it doesn't really bother me much. It's just...weird. But I'm weird too, so maybe I can make friends with it.

My understanding is this: people with bp II can have psychotic symptoms, but only in a depressive episode. Unipolars can be psychotic too. If the psychosis occurs during an up phase, than that episode is automatically labeled as mania and the sufferer has bp I. And if someone with a history of mood symptoms has psychosis outside of a mood episode than they are schizoaffective.

Regardless of whatever is going on, I definitely do not have bp I. My highs are very mild; 80% of my pain with bp comes from depression. (The remaining 20% is due to constant cycling and dysphoric hypomania and mixed states.)