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Old Sep 22, 2019, 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by franz kafka View Post
I guess it doesn't really matter anyway. My only treatment is an antipsychotic. No other class of drugs works for me. So SZ or SZA, same treatment.
I wonder if it has to do with the clozapine. It's very rarely used for BP and maybe your doctor feels it is more appropriately used for schizophrenia? I am on it definitely for bipolar but it is supposed to be a last resort for schizophrenia, not bipolar. I just ran out of the other bipolar options and needed this one which is probably fairly rare. Diagnosing based on the treatment that works doesn't seem right but I wonder if this is someone's attempt at that.
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