I've noticed a whole lot of people confuse schizophrenia with multiple personality disorder. Two completely different conditions. Why?

@PlumBerries: Thanks! It probably all comes down to etymology and history.

[c=#7700B2]if people did research on both, they would see just how different the two disorders are. I work in mental illness and my brother has schizophrenia so I have a fair bit of experience in that department [/c]

I have bipolar disorder as my most prominent diagnosis, and if I don't take my meds for about three months, my manic episodes are like a real mild schizophrenia. Everything becomes unrealistic. I'm incredibly this and amazingly that, and everything around me is incredibly this and amazingly that!
I take my meds! I skip once in a while, but I don't skip for long.
It's really a bad idea to run up to spontaneously hug a police officer because you heard Joni Mitchell singing "California" in your mind!

[c=#7700B2]it does suck having to rely on medicine huh.. Sorry to hear that you go through that. [/c]

@PlumBerries: I hate it with a passion, but 30 years of lessons about the alternative have sunk in.

[c=#7700B2]as much as it sucks I guess it out weighs the negatives of not taking them.. I have depression and if I don't take my daily antidepressants, I just can't even function [/c]

@PlumBerries: Yeah...us bipolarbears get to go there too! Depression can be fatal and deadly. Mania can be fatal and deadly, but most of the time it's more enjoyable than depression. I'll be honest- I absolutely LOVE a mild mania. I do my best writing and feel my best then.

@puck61: People can become deluded with severe bi-polar disorder.

@berangere: Yes. A manic episode can have delusional behavior for sure.

@puck61: Because people never feel tired during a manic or hypomanic episode and can keep going.