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Originally Posted by Icare dixit
Psychosis during/as mania isn't uncommon. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), used to diagnose people in many cases (sometimes the ICD is used instead, which uses "affective" in the name, so maybe they've used the ICD), BP (bipolar disorder) is "technically" not a psychotic disorder. Mania is sometimes still considered a form of psychosis.
However, in the past, mania and were seen as forms of psychosis and (so) BP(-I) was seen as a psychotic disorder.
I think it should be called a psychotic disorder and mania and depression should both be seen as forms of psychosis. Now, people often only think of hallucinations and specifically hearing voices as psychosis. Many people can have mild/"background" hallucinations, though, without having BP or SZ (schizophrenia).
Being severely depressed, it could be that understimulation is the cause of hallucinations. Are hallucinations your main problem or also delusions, beliefs that are very strong, purely (started as) assumptions/epiphanies and make normal functioning difficult or impossible (they don't have to be wrong)?
Do you experience, or have you experienced, any euphoria/elation/ecstasy or lots of activity during the period of depression? If that isn't the case, a mixed episode is maybe not very likely.
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Well the psychosis started out I think as fa as I remember before I would fall a sleep there would be a loud noise (this was years ago) then it switched to whispers, then I started seeing shadows of things that are not there, then falling items (like bottles, phones, even once a tree), I started stuttering because I couldn't concentrate on what I was thinking, this year I started hearing voices, having thought that are not my own (and not part of DID) that were telling me things like "Don't do this" "They know" "They will harm you" "You are worthless" and so on, now I am seeing human-like figures, I'm having a lot of meltdowns, also a bit of insomnia, I have quite more anxiety attacks, even after being prescribed Atarax. And this is almost every day. Yesterday I felt that something grabbed my leg. When I wake up I never know wheter the day will be okay or will I go through an episode and this leads up to anxiety.
When I have my depressive episodes the biggest activity I might do is go to school. I would put my earphones in and mostly sleep. Well most of the time I sleep. Because I have Dissociative Identity Disorder, or at least it looks like it, usually an altar will take over and do the socializing, and general things. If no one would come out I would just stay in my bed, without eating, drinking water, or even going to the toilet. So yeah, that's that..