Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality. It most commonly manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking with significant social or occupational dysfunction.
Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated mood clinically referred to as mania or, if milder, hypomania. Individuals who experience manic episodes also commonly experience depressive episodes or symptoms, or mixed episodes in which features of both mania and depression are present at the same time. These episodes are usually separated by periods of "normal" mood, but in some individuals, depression and mania may rapidly alternate, known as rapid cycling
Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder characterized by extreme mood swings, the mood swings can be every few hours, days or months.
Mania is a high energy phase of bipolar disorder characterized by impulse behaviors, promiscuity, and excess energy.
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder (commonly confused with but NOT ALL ALL RELATED TO Multiple Personality Disorder). Usual symptoms are dalusions, hallucinations, loss of touch with reality, strange noises and voices that normally berate the person afflicted, extreme paranoia, things in a schizophrenics world are just different, off balance. There are also a few different types of schizophrenia.
Also, people with bipolar disorder can have schizophrenic tendencies.
Those with bipolar disorder are symptom free between episodes. Bipolar mania can include psychosis but it doesn't always. Those with schizophrenia have symptoms regardless of mood state which include positive (psychosis) and negative (social isolation and withdrawl) ones.
Bipolar and schizophrenia are two very different diseases.
Answers & Comments
Verified answer
Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality. It most commonly manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking with significant social or occupational dysfunction.
Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated mood clinically referred to as mania or, if milder, hypomania. Individuals who experience manic episodes also commonly experience depressive episodes or symptoms, or mixed episodes in which features of both mania and depression are present at the same time. These episodes are usually separated by periods of "normal" mood, but in some individuals, depression and mania may rapidly alternate, known as rapid cycling
Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder characterized by extreme mood swings, the mood swings can be every few hours, days or months.
Mania is a high energy phase of bipolar disorder characterized by impulse behaviors, promiscuity, and excess energy.
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder (commonly confused with but NOT ALL ALL RELATED TO Multiple Personality Disorder). Usual symptoms are dalusions, hallucinations, loss of touch with reality, strange noises and voices that normally berate the person afflicted, extreme paranoia, things in a schizophrenics world are just different, off balance. There are also a few different types of schizophrenia.
Also, people with bipolar disorder can have schizophrenic tendencies.
Those with bipolar disorder are symptom free between episodes. Bipolar mania can include psychosis but it doesn't always. Those with schizophrenia have symptoms regardless of mood state which include positive (psychosis) and negative (social isolation and withdrawl) ones.
Bipolar and schizophrenia are two very different diseases.