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Old Oct 17, 2012, 04:17 PM
Dancing Girl Dancing Girl is offline
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Hi everyone!

I am diagnosed with bipolar. However, I have recently been wondering if some of my symptoms could be considered psychotic. In the past, I have had definite psychotic symptoms (hallucinations and delusions). They were linked specifically to mood, as would be congruent with bipolar. However, lately I have been questioning some of my thought processes that occur between affective episodes. I don't know if they would be considered psychotic. I am wondering what you all think.

-I have an imaginary friend. I logically know that he's not real, but his thoughts jump into my mind and so do his activities. Like, I think the things he is thinking. Like, I might think about him working on Wall Street for the day, eating something in the basement, thinking about wanted to do something, etc. As I said, I logically know he is not real, but he feels SO real to me. I don't try to think about what he's doing, it just comes into my mind. I love this creature. My fiance talked about me talking about him less, and I started crying because it made me so sad. That is pretty embarrassing. It is similar to a delusion I had a few years ago about a creature that was protecting me.

-I have periods of worry that people can read my mind. The first period of this was when I was a senior in high school. I kept doing mental tests to see if people really could read my mind or if it wasn't real. I would look at each of the students and send them mental messages to let me know if they could hear my thoughts. I still have periods of feeling like that. I know logically it's not true, but I feel like I can't be sure.

-I recently had a brief period of believing I was having an unwanted emotional affair with someone. I felt debilitatingly anxious and guilty about it. I broke down sobbing to my fiance more than once, telling her how guilty and horrible I felt and that I wasn't having an affair on purpose. A small part of me thought it wasn't logical, but I was pretty convinced that I did indeed cheat on her and that I was having an emotional affair, or wanted to, even though it upset me and I don't even like her romantically.

Those are the recent things, but there are others, like feeling like inanimate objects have feelings, worrying that people are going to tell other people things about me, and things like that.

I don't know what to make of this stuff. I am on a small dose of two antipsychotic medications right now. The beliefs about the affair decreased when I decreased one of my antipsychotic medications. I am seeing my med prescriber tomorrow, when I will talk to her about this. I just want to process this beforehand and to get feedback. I am worried that she might think I'm a hypochondriac or something.

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