The specialist said
that although Andrew was misdiagnosed as bi-polar with schizoid affect, he had
been given the correct treatment.
It was then that we learned that the
differential diagnosis is determined by the chronicity of the delusions. Bi-polar
disease is episodic, true schizophrenia is constant and unrelenting without
medication.
Some sufferers do not get complete relief even with treatment. Andrew
was one of these.
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