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Originally Posted by cashart10
Do you think they will make a big deal of it if it is the case? I am sleeping fine and currently in IOP and I don’t think I’m acting crazy. But I know my husband and mom’s tendency to overreact to certain symptoms. Will my pdoc be able to tell them if she thinks I am becoming psychotic?
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You can ask your pdoc that question, or, more generally, what would she do if she thought you were becoming psychotic.
Presumably she would tell you first and then tell you what she would be going to do in that instance.
Your pdoc can't really help you if you are hiding your thoughts and feelings. It seems important enough to bring up to the pdoc.
I know what you mean about people irl over reacting though. I am generally quite circumspect about describing my thoughts and feelings to other people for that reason.
If psychotic episodes leak outside of mood episodes usually the person ends up with a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder. FWIW I think I used to be bipolar 1 with psychotic episodes but became schizoaffective as my disease progressed.
I don't have a lot of confidence in the disease categories in psychiatry but it is what it is. For the most part the treatment of these two conditions is the same.