psychotic symptoms paranoid schizophrenia

Can paranoid personality disorder develop into paranoid schizophrenia?A person from my family went undiagnosed for many years despite strange behavior, only when she had a psychotic episode did she allow us to take her to a doctor and was diagnosed with paranoid disorder. The symptoms fit her "usual" symptoms (i.e. those she's had for years) - relatively coherent delusions of being disliked, plotted against, of her flat being bugged, someone stealing things when she's out.

Yes, bipolar can gradually turn into schizophrenia. The people saying this is not possible are wrong. I used to be primarily bipolar and had manic and depressive mood swings. Now (after about 6 years being primarily bipolar) I experience little to no mood swings, but hear voices daily and take high doses of niacin and antipsychotic to control schizophrenic symptoms. I have been primarily schizophrenic (though not "paranoid" schizophrenia) for about 3 years now.

DSM no longer recognizes any distinct subtypes of schizophrenia, including paranoid schizophrenia, due to limited diagnostic stability, low reliability, and poor validity.

m wondering is can it be possible to suffer with paranoid schizophrenia without hearing voices/more common psychosis? I don't want to have been misdiagnosed or start to hear voices later in life!

You did not create the hallucination of fleas all over, you did not make your symptoms of feeling worthless, paranoid, or hearing voices. These things happened because of the schizophrenia disorder. The newer drug Minocyline, since it is used as an antibiotic, it also reduces inflammation. Lately, the drug treatment world is beginning to think one of the causes of many neuro-type disorders is inflammation! So, you take a drug for it, and there you go!

My daughter was diagnosed with MS in 2009 @ 33 years old and also was displaying psychotic symptoms. She is now in a wheelchair taking a MS med and psychotic med. If you are for real please respond back.

You are right, this can not be a case of schizophrenia, but that does not mean he does not have a paranoid psychotic reaction due to brain trauma, or premature senility,or some other neurological disorder. He should be seeing a neurologist as well as a psych evaluation.

Well there is a gradation between bipolar and schizophrenia such as bipolar with psychotic features (where a person experiences psychotic symptoms specifically during moodswings) and schizoaffective disorder, as was mentioned as I have where if untreated a person experiences psychotic symptoms at all times. Bipolar in some people can worsen over a life time, certainly if untreated and there are many subtypes of bipolar, including bipolar with psychotic features.

He has Bipolar Disorder w/ psychotic features. He has gone into psychosis many times, and is extremely paranoid. After reading the Bipolar Child I see that he has been bipolar his whole life, and has only been diagnosed 3 months ago. When he is manic he drinks heavily basically all day everyday, and it is almost as if he is on psychedelic drugs.

I agree with the new psychiatrist that I have all the symptoms of ADD or even ADHD, but I also have the symptoms of schizophrenia. So what is it? Or is it possible to have both? He wants to put me on a drug for ADD but from what I've read, those drugs can exacerbate schizphrenia symptoms.

I have been diagnosed with PTSD and Schizophrenia - I have been having flashbacks of my childhood since I was about 30 years old my therapist wants me on medication so she can have me stable when we have our sessions. Why do I need to remember what happened? Is recovering all these suppressed memories really going to help me heal. I feel the damage has been done.

Thank you very much for your amazing answer, Ive been on prozac since February, the scary thing is that I read it may cause schizophrenia, thats why Im scared of taking an upper dosage, but many assured me it has nothing to do with this, and knowing Im already 24 years old,they said Im not in danger.

I have suffered from anxiety and depression since I was 17 years old (now 23). I have an older sister who has schizophrenia. Lately, I have become paranoid about developing it. My sister was this age when she developed it. I will frequently do things like check my ears to make sure I am not hearing voices. I have even thought i heard my name being called when my anxiety was sky high, which only fed into my fears.

I had a look at the symptoms for schizophrenia and they were too acute I have never experienced these symptoms, like hearing voices, wanting to commit suicide, hallucinations etc. I have recently 2007 developed a problem with anxiety and paranoia but he wants to remit me as schizophrenic.

While I'm sure that people with Schizophrenia may experience some of the symptoms you described, that doesn't mean that you have Schizophrenia. Those symptoms can also be caused by Severe Depression. What is your age? It is very, and I mean VERY rare for anyone to develope Schizophrenia after the age of about 20. Depression and Schizophrenia are two very different illnesses.

I have one friend who used to be a therapist and another friend who is studying psychology in college. I described my past symptoms to them (hallucinations, delusions, insomnia, etc. starting when I was 13 and I recovered from these symptoms two years later...). They both told me that I probably have a sex hormone imbalance. So, I looked this up on the internet and found out that low estrogen levels can trigger psychosis in people who are predisposed to schizophrenia.

Yes there can be causes of psychosis other than schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders or other factors that would worsen it that are physical. A person at all times should make their psychiatrist aware of any physical disabilities or disorders they have or especially inherited tendencies in the family.

Jaquta - I'm not sure what I'll do if I don't like the results from the psych consult. I suppose I could just continue treatment with my primary physician, as I think he could manage my complaints. I have looked up the dsm-iv for bipolar disorder, and it definitely doesn't match my complaints.

If you are taking lithium and it is working nine times out of ten you have bipolar not schizophrenia. Look up lithium and schizophrenia online and you will see it does not normally work for schizophrenia patients. I was on lithium I did not feel any better on it and eventually it hit my kidneys and I had to go into the hospital for seventeen days to get the lithium out of my system and have dialysis.

Here the person acts out the dreams. If your symptoms still persist, I would advise you to discuss your symptoms with your primary care physician who may then refer you to a sleep specialist for further evaluation. Hope this helped and do keep us posted.

I did not know he was researching anxiety-related stuff, but I feel the need to share his research regarding Niacin deficiency's role in paranoid schizophrenia (paranoid type is not organic like the other types of schizophrenia; you basically "develop" it, but not because of anatomical brain changes). I am a psych major, and this has been discussed during my studies.

Paranoia, I think everyone experiences paranoid thoughts or everyone around me does anyway from time to time. I am trying to come to terms with my BP2 diagnosis and try to sort through my past to see if I can tie all this together.

Namaste, Delusional disorder, previously called paranoid disorder, is a type of serious mental illness called a "psychosis" in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. The main feature of this disorder is the presence of delusions, which are unshakable beliefs in something untrue.

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