Simple Partial Seizures v. BiPolar Disorder

Hi,My boyfriend has epile^psy i am not sure what kind but he has then 2-3 per month and within the last year he goes through a period when he looks spaced talks crazy and is super happy and does not listen to me like in a little happy land or total opposite and very mean and violente i have to sit in font of door so he does not get out or get out myself.   Could this be a seizure without shaking just mental does that even exsist. or is it schyzophrenia...what do you think..

Hi boddhisattva? Have you had eegs done to rule out the possiblity of epilepsy? I was grossly misdiagnosed with psychological problems instead of epilesy. I have temporal lobe epilepsy. But for seven years I was told that I had psychological problems, given several psychiatric diagnoses, and treated with psych drugs. The psych drugs induced me to psychosis. The drugs also induced me to seizure to the point of near death. In March of 2003 I underwent emergency surgery and received the vns. It has been 25 months since I stopped taking the psych drugs. I know what you mean about the "lables" that you aquire with a psychiatric diagnoses. It is horrible. You never loose them. I believe the psychiatrists receive better fiancial kickbacks from the pharmacutical companies than the neurologists. A prescription of Seroquel is more expensive than a script for dilantin. Seroquel costs more to make? It is a vicious cycle. If you can make a person drug dependant for life then you have a secure investment! If the person is a psychiatric patient the profits are gained through many different sources. The list of those who profit from one patient are as follows; the insurance companies, primary care and MD. physicians, attending psychiatrist, social worker or counselor, the pharmacutical companies, hospitals or clinics, (including inpatient and outpatient treatment centers,) and add a neurologist to the list. Since most of the drugs prescribed by psychiatrists lower the threshold for seizure many pateints who have never had need to see a neurologist will need one. I have to question the motive behind what moves the medical community, (and now a possible nation wide legislative act,) to psychologically test and medicate the masses. It couldn't be for financial profit could it? Maybe it is for control? I am 44. The misdiagnoses that I lived through happened after my brain was fully developed. If you feed a five year old mood stabalizers for seven years, what will happen to the child's brain when as a teenager the mood stabalizers are discontinued? The neurons inside of the kid's brain will start to fire at unrecognizable patterns. Poor kid. As his brain was cognitively developing the neurons learned to fire off under the instruction of the mood stabalizer. I almost lost my life (and did loose my mind,) from a psychiatric misdiagnosis. It is appauling that this issue is just gaining the exposure it derserves. It is a bad situation. I hope we don't ever live to see the day when manditory psychological testing is implimented. People make mistakes. It happened to me!!! I hope this has been helpful. Yakota.