To change the perspective, people with bipolar disorder can be in a mixed
state where they feel both high and low simultaneously. This is known as
dysphoric mania (mixed state)
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Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: Schizophrenia
> One person can have both positive and negative symtoms. Andreasen & Olsen
(1982) found in 52
> "schizophrenics" 16 with negative symtoms, 18 with positive and 18 with
mixed symtoms (Davison & Neale
> (1990), Abnormal Psychology).
>
> HRH Acrylica wrote:
> > > Sally, I think the anti-psychiatry movement (Szaz, Laing & co) would
tell
> > > you that schizophrenia is a catch-all bucket for a whole list of
> > > "disorders", and that they may not in fact be disorders at all.
Currently,
> > > schizophrenias are classified as paranoid, disorganised, catatonic,
> > > undifferentiated and residual; "negative" and "positive" refer to
symptoms
> > > associated with various of these types.
> > >
> > > M
> > Thanks for that!
> > Just one last thing: can the positive and negative symptoms occur at
the
> > same time?
> >
> > It's all very confusing this; I've just read about Crow's Two Syndrome
> > Hypothesis (Type I Schizophrenia characterised by pos symptoms, Type
II by
> > neg) and then read elsewhere that both sets of symptoms occur in the
one
> > disease Schizophrenia. Is there any common consensus on this?!
> >
> > Once again, thanks for helping me out
> >
> > Love, Sally
>
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