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Originally Posted by tc2012
My son was diagnosed with bipolar 2. He has been having symptoms of psychosis for several months. He has been taking Risperdol for 2 months. He seems better to me. He says he is not, he can just supress his feelings better. He says he feels like he is in a video game. Is this common among people with BP?
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Nothing is really common except actual symptoms, we all have individual experiences as to how our bipolar manifests.
Him looking better, doesn't mean he feels or is doing better, I would listen to him when he says he's not. Risperdal put a lid on a lot of my "stuff", but it was always still there, bubbling beneath the surface, waiting for a chance to implode on me.
I can't really comment on the video game analogy, not enough detail, but if I must weigh in, I agree with Venus, sounds more like Derealization than psychosis.
Maybe if you could post some more detail we'd be more helpful? Like when you say psychosis for several months, do you mean him feeling as if he's been inside a video game for months or are there other factors? Like auditory, visual, tactile or olfactory hallucinations? If so, are they impairing his level of functioning? Etc...
From what you wrote, he seems terribly disconnected and I would urge him to alert his pdoc.
