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Lost_in_the_woods · May 08, 2016, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by raspberrytorte

Well... what happened to me was that I had a psychotic break last year that mimicked a manic episode, but of what I believe was a severe stress/anxiety experience in which my brain just snapped. Then after that experience I had delusions and hallucinations and paranoia that I believe were after effects of that experience.

I have never heard voices nor experienced anything as severe as that before.

I'm fine now and I'm not on an antipsychotic.

I think my experience was more of a brief psychotic experience? Though it lasted a year long.

I don't think I have bp either.

I'm too old (33) to develop anything like that.

BP can go misdiagnosed or undiagnosed depending on how it presents and if parents arent well informed. I found out recently that SZA BP/manic paranoid type can infact present and go undiagnosed later than other types of psychotic disorders. Because of other overlying factors that mask/ mimic milder symptoms and that a full paranoid psychotic break may not present until triggered by a major life stressor. So if someones norm is high stress ie demanding job or competive envirnment...they may have a stronger threshhold thus stress takes longer to build up into a full break.