but im scurd that i might be schizophrenic

By nutz Tuesday, May 05, 2009

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to make a long story short,

i fell in a depression, had a nervous breakdown and completely freaked out. i couldn't focus and it seemed like i was in a fog. friends seemed distant and i just couldnt do normal things. i couldm't remember basic things and work was a mess. i had a hard time talking. i heard my mom call me but i knew it wasnt real. i smelled things that nobody else could smell. it felt like my thoughts fell in a tornado. at work i felt real paranoid and it was overwhelming. oh and i see trails all the time!!! i used to be happy go lucky and now im an anti social poopie pants, raaaaaackaaabaaaackaaaaa! i've fuckin lost it.... the doc says bipolar 1. does this fit the standard of bipolar?????

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Eric

5/ 5/09 5:28am

Hey Boon,

I would be less concerned with the diagnoses and more concerned with getting the correct treatment. A lot of the same medications are used to treat both bipolarism and schizophrenia.

Some of us with the illness during a manic phase have the same symptoms of being paranoid, seeing things that aren't there, odd smells and the usual of a government conspiracy of some kind.

Start on the medications and be as honest as possible as to how you are feeling. The pdoc can adjust the medications as needed to get you back on the right track, but understand that it will take awhile to reach therapeutic levels (from 6 weeks to 6 months in some cases). What ever you do...don't decide you know best and start self medicating with your medications...stick to the directions.

If it helps...your not alone with this and a lot of us have been though it.

crazy123

5/ 5/09 5:36am

sounds like it. i thought i was gonna get locked up, i totally lost the plot, i was to scared to go out on my own cause id forget where i was what i was doing there and how to get back. i too got bipolar 1.

nutz

5/ 5/09 2:36pm

thank you both for your replies! this site is a total confidence booster! to know im not alone in feeling the way i felt means so much to me! i just dont want to be on drugs anymore :(

knowthyself

5/ 5/09 3:28pm

boonutz,

There is no standard for bipolar. The bipolar spectrum has diagnoses which based on severity but within each diagnosis there still is a broad range in the way the disorder presents itself in the individual. We are all different, though we share some of the same symptoms. I have bipolar I and others here do as well. If we could get together and chat awhile, we would see we share some of the same symptoms but it would also reveal differences.

Hey, many of us hate the medications and side effects or wish we did not have to take them but remember what you went through and ask yourself if you would like to enjoy more of the same or do you want to be more stable at the cost of putting up with a few side effects. Life is already a rollercoaster, why surf it on a tidal wave and be slammed into the breakers.

but im scurd that i might be schizophrenic

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