If you’ve been diagnosed with both, I’d definitely get another opinion. Schizophrenics are often misdiagnosed when bipolar is a truer diagnosis. With Schizophrenia there is a deterioration of the brain matter. With bipolar, there isn’t. Schizophrenia is a disease and bipolar is a disorder, there’s no "cure" for either.

On the other hand, many with bipolar are misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. The symptoms and behaviors can overlap. The patient has to be studied over a period of time to make a true diagnosis. And there is a definitive test for schizophrenia, which usually doesn’t present itself until age 20 or older.

Psychiatrists are very careful when diagnosing either because both are considered debilitating. For example, the patient would not be eligible ofr a government job, or the military, and many, many other jobs that have insurance.

However, people diagnosed with these disorders are many times of very high IQ and in good times are very productive, even brilliant.