Is it possible I've been suffering from schizophrenia since childhood? To clarify I have only been formally diagnosed as bipolar II, AVPD and BPD as well as with severe cognitive issues and problems with something called "visual motor functioning."

However, one mental health professional alluded to the idea I was schizophrenic, putting in my chart I have lack of insight which is characteristic of schizophrenia.

Almost all have said I am merely bipolar, since I have a relative lack of psychotic thinking (delusions and ideas of reference) and hallucinations, although I have hallucinated and become psychotic when drugs and alcohol were involved. Ordinarily in schizophrenia you see a central, systematized delusion often of a paranoid or bizarre nature and I have no such fixed delusions.

However, I do experience thought disorder and have trouble with theory of mind (understanding what others know, do not know, what they need and do not need to know etc. as well as thinking others already know what I know) that at least one professional said I may be experiencing mild thought broadcasting.

I have a constant flat affect, blank look in my eyes and face. I seem to experience the four A's of schizophrenia (autism, alogia, ambivalence and affective blunting.) Poverty of thought and speech is alogia iirc. I can expand a lot on my symptoms if you're interested.

I have massive short and long term memory issues and terrible attention span which one psych told me was inconsistent with bipolar disorder since it's not associated with any change in cognition.