Is Bipolar similair to Schizophrenia?

Question

I heard someone say "that person has that disorder, uh - schizophrenia, bipolar"

Answer 1

Schizophrenia is not necessarily voices in head.  Schizophrenia is constantly being delusional.  People with schizophrenia believe in nonexistant events, which include voices in head, but it encompasses more that just that.  It can include paranoia, and delusions of grandeur like believing oneself is Jesus.

Answer 2

Bipolar is manic depression, Schizophrenia is a split personality a bit like Golam in the lord of the rings, voices in your head telling you what to do.

Answer 3

Schizophrenia with bipolar is called schizo-affective disorder.  By themselves they are not similar at all.

Answer 4

No, they are completely different

Answer 5

No, Bipolar has wild mood swings. Schizophrenia, has personality splits, so it's hard too tell who your are talking too sometimes.

Answer 6

They are in the same spectrum of diagnoses, but have different criteria to meet before one or the other can be diagnosed.

There are protocols under the DSM-IV that allow a doctor to give a diagnosis of "Bipolar, schizophrenic type", but when it comes down to that, it would be considered as bipolar not elsewhere classified and not schizophrenia.

As the other poster stated, simple explanation of bipolar is manic depression; schizophrenia is voices in the head.

Answer 7

Schizophrenia is when you can hear voices in your own head that aren't in reality, or you can see things that aren't really there.Some people are meant to have thought delusions also. I don't know as much about bipolar, but i think it's when you get real sad & then really happy or manic.

Answer 8

No, they are not similar but a person can have schizophrenia (voices, hallucination, paranoia but NOT split personality) and bipolar disorder (severe mood swings of mania and depression) at the same time. It is called schizoaffective disorder.

To find the symptoms for schizphrenia go to http://www.medicinenet.com/schizophrenia...

To find the symptoms for bipolar go to

http://www.medicinenet.com/bipolar_disor...

To find the symptoms for schizoaffective disorder go to http://www.medicinenet.com/schizoaffecti...

Hope this helps!