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Originally Posted by dark_heart_x
No, all bipolar is chronic. What chronic means is it is a life long illness with no cure. For example, diabetes is also a chronic illness on the physical side. I use diabetes as an example because they are two illnesses that although they cannot be cured, they can be controled and managed by eternal efforts.
The opposite of chronic is acute, which means it is a short term thing and will go away.
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ok i see.
didnt mean to say it like that.
anyway -
cause thats not how chronic and acute is termed for schizophrenia.
in schiz - acute means basically something triggered the episode and while youll always have schiz youll still be able to goto regular functioning with meds in between episodes.
in schiz - chronic means its an everyday continuous thing and you get a lot of the negative symptoms too not just positive and meds may not help chronic schizophrenia.
its also diff with each doc but thats generally what it means for schiz. ive been termed with chronic schizophrenia from different hospitals because a lot of meds dont help me and nearly everyday i have positive symptoms and also negative symptoms cause i have depression too.