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Originally Posted by blackwhitered
Oh, we knew bipolar existed. But we still mistook some presentations (i.e. psychosis) for schizophrenia. (Similarly, we knew of DID for a long time, but still diagnosed them with schizophrenia until the 80s when there was a huge boom in DID cases. PTSD and autism are another story... Oh, and I didn't even mention epilepsy.) When someone is more psychotic than manic, it's hard to tell. Like I said, the only other "schizophrenic" I knew was diagnosed in the 70s and has recently been rediagnosed as bipolar. And I know more than one person who was misdiagnosed with a mood disorder that later turned out to be schizophrenic.
Ever hear of the book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden? The author was diagnosed with schizophrenia in I think the 60s and recovered, but modern psychologists and analysts have retroactively diagnosed her with things like conversion disorder...
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Yeah that's Johanna greenburg slightly fictionalized....she is actually on a video interview done by Daniel mackler and there was another woman on there too Catherine penny...both of their psychiatrists were considered top notch psychoanalysts I don't believe their sz diagnosis to be inaccurate in any way Catherine penny was actually catatonic and that's certainly not bipolar. I would seriously doubt anyone who thinks that they can make an accurate diagnosis retroactively...I mean look at all the diseases Van Gogh supposedly has.