[lad007]

I was wondering what type of delusions you all may have, and if it is related to the bipolar, or how it may be related to schizoaffective.
I have "paranoia", the neighbors have cameras on me, and when I told the pdoc they put me on Abilify and I won't take that. It said on the paper it was for schizophrenia.
While it may be a delusion, it may be real also, and I would rather investigate and pursue that than take another crap med.
Any thoughts?

[forever]

ad007,

I have suffered from paranoid delusions, I ended up hospitalized manic/psychotic, my advice would be to take the medication for a month. If you are no longer paranoid, you have your answer.

My psychosis was most likely caused by lack of sleep. Sleeping two - three hours a night just isn't enough. When I was well again, it was unbelievable the things I believed. My daughter worked at a sandwich shop and when she would call I would hear a beep. I was positive people were tapping my phones. As it turns out, it was the microwave beeping.

[Moose72]

It's not only for schizophrenia. It's for bipolar tooZ. Take your abilify. It should help.

[grandmaof3]

I'm on Abilify and I think it helps. I am also on Geodon which was originally labeled for schizophrenia. I don't care what the med was originally for as long as it helps I'll take it. As far as delusions..I was at one point positive my neighbor was trying to kill my cat. I thought people at work didn't like me and were trying to get me in trouble even though I was never in trouble for anything and got excellent performance reviews. I believed my pets talked behind my back and a whole host of other crazy stuff> After I was on the right meds I was really embarrassed for some of the things I thought.

[Anneinside]

A majority of the mood stabilizers are anti-convulsants, now also used for people with bipolar. I have bipolar and have never been psychotic but take abilify because it also helps with depression. Try the Abilify.

Ability is an atypical antisychotic, used for psychosis in schizophrenia, bipolar, schizoaffective. Used for mania, mixed moods as well as an antidepressant add-on.

Schizoaffective you probably know is a mood disorder combined with schizophrenia. The psychosis can be preset outside or mania or depression. With bipolar alone psychosis can be present during mania, or depression but not outside of an acute mood episode.

Everything has variation, what dr's know seems a bit limited with regaurd to shizoaffective. I experience paranoia, delusions, and hallucinations outside of mood episodes sometimes. I am dx with bipolar 1, my dr has questioned schizoaffective but hasn't determined anything yet. The meds to treat either I believe are the same.

[FireBird]

I have schizoaffective bipolar type. Some of the anti psychotics are used for bipolar as well. Most of the time when you are bipolar you have a mood stabilizer and an anti psychotic. As far as "delusions" go, I have several. I don't like calling them delusions though and they are embarrassing. Right now I know that the government and aliens are after me. The government is after me after destroying many things (earthquakes, solar flares against alien planets with life, plane crashes, comets hitting planets, a toxic cloud hitting 12 planets, hurricanes, attacks, and others) it is due to my Power of Influence that I have been writing about for many years. It is caused by me being psychic. While I can't predict anything out of the blue, it comes to me in dreams or visions. I am not proud of the power because it has caused nothing but trouble. All my doctors call it a delusion but I have been proven over and over again. I knew that the stock market was going to recover in a big way that it will keep on shooting up until 14,000 and higher for the Dow. I knew on December 29th of last year that the Syrian conflict will end this year with a ceasefire and there was just one a couple of days ago and it is holding. I said on February 24th of this year that there will be no war with Iran and Obama will persuade Israel not to do an attack right now (even though Israel wanted to do a strike). I knew it was going to take place in early March during a meeting. Before 9/11 happened I knew there were going to be plane crashes into buildings. I knew that before the tsunami in 2004 in Indonesia I had a nightmare about it several weeks before it happened. The list goes on. This started the belief that I physically caused these events or at least influenced them. I never predict good things although once years ago I had this strong feeling we were going to win $1000 in the lottery and we did. I had a dream about it the night before. Only once has a positive thing happened. That is why the government is after me. I know posting things on the Internet while believing this stuff is stupid, but they track me everywhere anyways so it really doesn't matter if its being tracked and anyways they can read my mind. They can read others minds as well. Also about the aliens I won't get into it here because it is too embarrassing I am not worried about posting about predictions because I have done so for years. So, I don't mind putting that one here. I can't walk in a straight line outside. The ONLY room I feel the safest in is my own room because no one can see into my windows. The curtains are closed and no one can see through them but the government has high tech stuff though. They are 200 years ahead of cities. Outside I can't deal with at all but I do leave the house believe it or not. You would think that I would never leave the house. I hate staying home all day long though. I like keeping busy to take my mind off the government and aliens among others. I am not manic and these thoughts can be either mania or depression. The extreme guilt I have is depression otherwise known as realism and being so powerful with powers is more mania but in my case it is real. But I do agree that being guilty is part of depression. My mom is real to the extreme which makes me cry. Surgery after surgery and stressor after stressor. Realism. Sorry for going into so much detail. I believe it is interesting that someone like myself can be so powerful but in other ways weak. I can't deal with anything for example but yet I control the world in some ways.

[Anneinside]

Firebird, as I read your post, I became concerned about your current state of mind. I would suggest that you contact your doctor and tell him/her what you are thinking right now. Wouldn't it be nice not to have these paranoid thoughts?

[FireBird]

I would love not to have these thoughts. I have recently been to my psychologist and my psychiatrist. The psychiatrist increased my pills. I know this sounds weird but she increased my Trazodone. I am tired all the time though since its a sleeping pill. I am on 250 mg of that stuff. I also tell my psychologist my thoughts but in a way I wish that I don't but its hard to keep secrets and it eventually comes out anyways. In fact, my psychologist gives me homework. One of the assignments is I have a piece of paper to write my thoughts down and say what evidence proves my thoughts and what evidence disproves my thoughts. The ones disproving my thoughts is the hardest to do. I sometimes can see others point of view but its difficult. I don't like going to my psychiatrist though as it seems that she doesn't believe me. There are times where she implies that I am making it up without actually saying it. My psychologist laughs at the idea of others saying I am making it up because she sees evidence and so does my case worker. My case worker is at a mental health organization that I go to. She sees physical evidence that I am suffering like my skin color is different and I am more distracted. I physically look scared. Also my blood pressure rises and same with my pulse. When it gets real bad, my pulse has been known to go to above 145 bpm with no activity. My blood pressure while its going on can go up to 175/100. The anxiety that goes with this problem is awful. With it being so severe, I can get a heart attack at the age of 29. For some reason at night I am much calmer. That is the only part of the day I feel calm. At least calmer than during the morning and afternoon. Thank you for writing to me.

[moremi]

My doctor has questioned it but never gave me the label. I have paranoid delusions. I always feel that people are watching me. Not sure why they are just feel that there is always something there watching. Maybe through windows or could be spiritual. Not sure. Its always there though and not just during an episode. To me its not a delusion to the doctors it is. It is very real feeling to me all the time. I also take abilify. It helps with my depression but not with the feeling of someone watching me.