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Originally Posted by blackwhitered
Hey, I thought this information was very helpful, I just had some questions and comments.
re: bipolar psychosis
Somehow I got diagnosed with just bipolar by a few doctors even though my psychosis is not related to my mood in any way, and we're not even sure (now) whether I've ever had even hypomania. They acted like this was standard, even though all the sources I've seen should have labelled that as schizoaffective. I'm thoroughly confused.
re: schizoaffective disorder
Just wanted to mention that there is also a depressed type of sza where you have a combination of schizophrenia and depression. It also seems that the mood episodes have to be a major part of the illness, not a one-time thing or something that happened long before the psychosis.
Which makes me wonder how I've been diagnosed as schizoaffective considering I've only had one real episode of depression (not affected by medication or severe stress) and that happened a while before the "active" phase of my psychosis. Grrr why must diagnoses and doctors be so inconsistent??
re: delusional disorder
The thing about delusional disorder is that it typically involves somewhat realistic delusions. Like your spouse is cheating on you, the NSA is spying on you, that you're a secret agent, that you're psychic, etc. That's what I've heard, anyway.
If anyone has any input on why my diagnoses seem, er, unusual, that would be helpful. But yeah, good information otherwise!
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I admit I'm not as familiar with the ones that have a mood component or the delusional disorder becuase I wasn't close to getting a dx of any of those so thanks for correcting them...
As far as your bipolar it could be bipolar II...heaven forbid you smiled for two weeks in a row you might have been labeled hypomanic...but usually I don't hear of bipolar II with psychosis but I could be wrong the one I always hear about is bipolar I while manic....the problem is all of these labels are controversial some pdocs don't believe bipolar II exists some don't believe in sza some don't believe in rapid cycling etc. also I'm not clear on the difference between the depressed kind of sza and psychotic depression. I'm guessing some of the deal for you might be age....some pdocs won't give out a sz or sza diagnosis to someone younger just becuase...
I still want to stick with my original advice though...reading about schizophrenia gives the most info about psychosis...there is so much less for the other illnesses with the exception of bipolar but that tends to focus on the mood episodes.