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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic
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.
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The only difference between sza depressed type and psychotic depression is that psychotic depression ONLY happens when depressed, not during normal moods.
Another difference (not part of diagnostic criteria, but something that's common) between sz and mood disorders is that a lot of times the psychotic symptoms of mood disorders correspond to the mood (thinking you're God when manic, or delusions of guilt when depressed, etc.)
As for bipolar 2 I think the psychosis would only happen when depressed...? Because any manic or hypomanic symptoms with psychosis are automatically mania/bipolar 1.
Yeah, I don't really understand what's going on with my diagnosis anymore. It seems that each doctor makes up their own definitions that have no basis in the DSM or what I'm going through.