Hey WC, I often wonder what to say when responding to posts but then I look at your replies and often think to myself that was a response I would also hope to be able to write.

I've been through all kinds of denials before about the nature of my own mental illness but am in a better place now in accepting it and being vigilant about a few things like sleep. Once you have had psychotic thoughts they don't suddenly completely disappear. For instance, you have memories of what you were doing when you were having those thoughts and it can seem like a different person... but it isn't.

I really do think there's a profound divide between people who have psychosis as symptom and those who do not and wonder often why they are put into the same disease like bipolar.