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Another thread brought this question up and I would really, really like to know the answer.
How do you tell the difference between normal mind going a hundred miles an hour, talking to yourself, etc. between hallucinations, hearing voices, seeing things?
It seems to me to be a very fine line and I only recently found out how much my normal mental state was far from "normal".
My new diagnosis is BP NOS, which could be or not psychotic.
I have conversations going on constantly in my head, but never thought they came from anywhere but myself, despite the fact that I don't like the conversations.
Can someone with BP type I explain the diff to us?
How do you tell the difference between normal mind going a hundred miles an hour, talking to yourself, etc. between hallucinations, hearing voices, seeing things?
It seems to me to be a very fine line and I only recently found out how much my normal mental state was far from "normal".
My new diagnosis is BP NOS, which could be or not psychotic.
I have conversations going on constantly in my head, but never thought they came from anywhere but myself, despite the fact that I don't like the conversations.
Can someone with BP type I explain the diff to us?
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I have tons of conversations in my head, but it's not anybody else's voice coming in to play.
A good antipsychotic keeps all this under control! Seroquel is an excellent one!
And I talk to myself all the time, I consider this to be normal behavior, but I'm a writer so maybe it is?
Auditory hallucinations are when I hear what seem to be other people's voices - male, female - making comments and they almost sound like they're external to me, yet inside my head as well.
I have schizoaffective disorder (psychotic symptoms and BP symptoms simultaneously).
Guess you were right, (Lou, I think) my last dx was BP II, mixed episodes. And supposedly they can't go together. Any mixed episode is manic (type I) not hypomanic (type II).
Guess that's why new pdoc said NOS.
I can't even be crazy the normal way :-)
Hallucinations is simply seeing things that aren't there. As though those things are actually there. Simple as that.