(September 13, 2017 at 9:20 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(September 13, 2017 at 8:58 pm)Industrial Lad Wrote: Thanks C'thulhu. My grandma has depression and I think she's been on Lorazepam. I don't doubt cannabis is helpful for you.
With the Schizophrenic aspect of my disease there are auditory hallucinations, so C.annabis would likely do some not nice things to me. There was some AD I took for sleep a year ago that really made me way manic. Usually I don't get like that.
I get manic from ADs too, and some sleep aids. I also have some auditory hallucinations but not bad enough to want to take anti-psychotics any longer. Cannabis can aggravate that if I use too much, but so far like anything else the benefits outweigh the risks. Moderation works for me.
I'm not quite sure what differentiates schizoaffective bipolar, schizophrenia, and type 1 with psychosis. Like not all bipolar sufferers have psychosis, actually I think it's not that common.
I'm not that well read with Bipolar Disorder but with Schizophrenia, you can definitely have depression but not mania. The auditory hallucinations are the classic symptom of Schizophrenia. With both Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective, you can have intrusive thoughts, can this happen with certain types of bipolar?
For the first probably 5-10 years my diagnosis was Schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia can be really difficult in terms of cognitive functioning and the hallucinations can make it difficult to function. I was on a site where someone said basically everybody there has to be (relatively) high functioning because we can all use a computer and have the ability to communicate fairly well.
