What would you say are the differences for you between psychosis with a mood swing, and psychosis without a mood swing? Doesn't psychosis give you unpleasant emotions, and could that feel like the same thing as having a mood swing? I imagine it would be hard to tell if you are having a mood swing or not while experiencing psychosis? But I wanted to ask and not just assume.

I'm asking because I'm wondering if I actually fit better under this diagnosis than BP1 with psychosis and if I should eventually ask my pdoc about it. I'm not even sure if it would make a difference in my medication options if it were true.

Like an episode I had about a year ago, it involved a lot of paranoia. I became terrified of my roommates and thought they were out to harm me in some way, that they were plotting and that they hated me. I wound up running away, and before I left I smashed my laptop so they couldn't use it to try to find me, then I locked my bedroom door and fell out of the window to escape. I was trying to buy myself time to get away before them realizing I had escaped. I wound up fleeing all the way to another state, where I was on a mission given to me by higher powers to find someone. It was all very vague and irrational and unfortunately cost me dearly in the end, as I wound up homeless for a while and went through some bad stuff.

However I don't really recall being depressed, nor feeling euphoric, or really feeling much of anything throughout all of it, except for the paranoia towards my roommates. I was mostly just focused on my mission.

Does that sound similar to things any of you experience?