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May 27, 2013, 12:24 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,486
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Originally Posted by bluewave7
Hey it might be a good idea to post this in the schizophrenia forum as your article said paranoia most often goes with schizophrenia. Just a suggestion.
And then there is psychosis. Once I was manic psychotic and I was terrified people were looking at me in the ER waiting room. Well they were because I was screaming! But psychosis is different...I was seeing things that weren't there...either that or the veil between this world and the next had been lifted and I was seeing the other side.
I've seen crack heads that were severly paranoid. Not a fun drug.
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It's a hallmark of severe mental illness, most notably schizophrenia.
So not just schizophrenia, it seems more common in that illness, but not exclusive to it.
In the manic phase of bipolar, some people become psychotic and paranoia/delusions are a form of psychosis (or part of psychosis for some people). Also, later in the article they talk about how it can occur in depression.
I'm no doctor, but my understanding is that some (most?, not sure) schizophrenics would often be delusional (in one way or another) if they were not medicated, whereas in bipolar disorder it's more episodic. I think it's a matter of 'psychosis' whether of the schizophrenic type or bipolar type.
That said there are people who experience this outside of episodes, but as the article says there's a while spectrum of experiences people can have.
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