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What is the difference between bipolar and schizophrenia? |
What is the difference between bipolar and schizophrenia? Some people here are talking rubbish and stereotypes, others are onto the right track. Bipolar disorder is another term for manic depression. A person onnly needs to have one episode of mania (elated mood, reduced sleep, increased rate of speech and thought, disinhibition, delusions of grandeur are common symptoms) to be given a diagnosis. The course of the disease varies from person to person. For some the periods of mania and depression alternate, for others they occur at random. It is also usuall for a person's mood to returnt to normal between episodes, so they are not always up or down. It is a serious disease with a high risk of suicide, especially for people with 'rapid cycling' depression. Onset is usually in late teens or twenties. Schizophrenia is a functional psychosis where the person's perception of reality is impaired. It is not multiple personalities! Common symptoms include auditory hallucinations - may be one voice or many, talking to the person or maybe just about them (behind their back so to speak), or they may just hear their own thoughts echo in their head - or delusions - these include delusions of passivtiy where the person believes their actions are under the influence of an external forces, delusions of thought control (the person thinks that others can hear their thoughts, that somebody is stealing their thoughts, or that somebody is placing thoughts in their head) or other delusions about being God, JC, or paranoid delusions. The delusions may occur spontaneously or in response to auditory hallucinations, or from a delusional interpretation of a sensory perception. Other symptoms are classed as 'negative' and relate to poor self care, lack (poverty) of thought, poverty of speech, blunting of emotions. Scizohprenic formal thought disorder has been mentioned by someone else. It relates to abnormal thought processes and is evident by speech that loses its logical flow between one idea and the next. It is also called 'knight's move thinking', after the strange way a knight moves on the chess board. There are many types of schizophrenia - simple which is characterised by negative symptoms (poor prognosis), hebephrenic - fleeting delusions and hallucination and disorganised thought and behaviour, paranoid - characterised by prominent paranoid delsusions, cataonic - where the patient adopt bizarre postures and mannerisms. Scizophrenia may present as single episode, but in most cases runs a chronic, relapsing course. And that's all I have to say about that. Source(s): 4th year med student UK Bipolar you have very quick mood swings and go through manic episodes where it's like you have ADD, you are on the go, spend alot, sleep a little and eat a little, this lasts for like a week at a time and then you sleep longer for a few days. and this cycle goes on and on. Schizo- you hear voices, and listen to them or go crazy trying not to Bipolar is a form of manic depression. Meaning if not treated medically the patient suffers from extreme depression with phases of day long sleep in change with phases of total activity. Talking to strangers in supermarkets etc. Schizophrenia is the development of different personalities. Friend of mine is bipolar and takes Lithium. The two are quite seperate from each other: Bi-polar is the case where one can inexplicably and very quickly act in two opposite emotional extremes, usually a form of rage and a form of depression. A person will be as hard-core a fighter and enraged as possible, possibly able to cause real harm or damage, and then instantaneously switch to another extreme like crying or grief or sorrow. The damage in the latter is the harm they can inflict on themselves. Read more into it, this is just a basic explanation. Schizophrenia: The case where one loses touch with reality. This is marked with hallucinations and delusions. One will see things that aren't there or hear voices only they can hear. They give into these voices, which will claim to be a variety of things: aliens, God or angels, secret service members, kings and queens, inanimate objects, non-existent objects, or even just air (these are examples, not limitations). The voices can be particularly harmful since over time, thier commands carry weight. Commands can be to execute or assassinate people (including family). Also, another common sign among many, is creating sentences that come out like jarble - made-up words or grammatically incorect usage. Both are serious and dangerous. The onset can be early in life, but typical cases begin in late teens, mostly early adulthood. The similarity is that they are both disorders, bi-polar is a mood disorder/personality disorder, and schizophrenia is a mental disorder. Do more research on your own for specifics or for further information if this hits too close to home. Psychology student |
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