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Old Jan 18, 2013, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster View Post
If you are bipolar and hear voices, then your illness is called Schizoaffective and there is a forum for that on here, but its traffic is much, much lower than on this forum.

Schizoaffective is relatively rare. Most bipolar people do not hear voices.
Not quite true. It's only schizoaffective if you have psychosis both during and outside of a mood episode, whether manic or depressive. About half of bipolar I people have psychosis that occurs only when mood episodes occur.
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