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> You are missing what I consider to be a cardinal symptom of Schizophrenia, a thought disorder.

What if a thought disorder is a sometime thing? Increases and decreases in severity? One could present with apparent good organization at times and not at others.

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In general Schizophrenia does wax and wain throughout one's life. The symptoms can range from every possibility of none to the extreme. Some persons may have one episode of Psychosis and never have one again. Others may have three or four or ten or a hundred.

Psychosis tends to include those positive symptoms like hallucinations, thought disorder etc.,

Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder also share some similar symptoms. From his first few posts he seems to be describing something of a Manic Episode. But, those symptoms are also common at the acute phase of schizophrenia.

The important thing is that he seeks treatment, however way he deems suitable.