BIPOLAR VS. SCHIZOPHRENIA

As would later be confirmed only a couple of years before his death, Andrew was not bipolar but schizophrenic. The difference between bipolar with a schizoid affect and schizophrenia is that the former is episodic and the latter is chronic.  In other words, Andrew’s delusions, his voices, were always with him. 

They were also, always laced with reality. They included family members, neighbors and his bosses who were constantly demeaning him in the most brutal of verbal tirades. Often he experienced the television characters as reaching out to him. The television characters, Jay Leno and Brittany Spears were very positive delusion inviting Andrew to come and join them on their shows