This is why depression, a lack of meaning, is described as the other side of the coin of mania: because mania is an overload of meaning.
This is also not a good definition of schizophrenia at all. Schizophrenics are people who, in extreme cases, can experience full-blown hallucinations. Meaning and connections don’t create literal hallucinations.
But, the core features for schizophrenia seem to be disturbed perception (hallucination), beliefs (delusion), and thought processes (abnormal reasoning, speech, and behavior). These can range from subtle or extreme over the life of the patient. The experience of these may lead to agitation, but mania often presents the other way around. The increasing energy seems to precede the other psychotic symptoms.
There are two other common conditions which also have many of the same symptoms, but not in the same pattern. Delirium is often a temporary condition when someone is sick or injured. Dementia is a terminal, degenerative condition. Sometimes a patient can have all of these: a lifetime of schizophrenia shifting into dementia in old age, punctuated with bouts of delirium due to infections etc. The differences may be recognizable and help with treatment plans, but the symptoms can all blur together. One way doctors try to distinguish them is by noting the timing of symptoms.
the only difference is, one can recover from manic psychosis
I think ALL of us shift between the two. or rather I'd say that we all experience a combination of both over our lives
when people shift between opposite states way too fast, from a big and deep depression to a high excited manic state that's called bipolar disorder. but normal people can and indeed are (is what I'm saying) expected to experience both extreme but possibly shifiting between extremes over the course of many weeks or even months, rather than a few minutes like in bipolar patients
Not correcting anything parent said, just adding information.
~1/3 of bipolar people fall into the category you are describing – rapid-cycling bipolar.
for the rest, the cycles are months long, whether manic, euthymic, or depressed, and often following seasonal patterns.
clinical bipolar disorder vs. the ups and downs of human life are quite different. it's difficult to understand unless you have seen a loved one suffer it, or have been afflicted with it yourself.
“On the other hand we have schizophrenia, a relationality so unkept than anything and everything is packed full of meaning, connections are drawn between everything, and existence is pure pattern and relation.”
^ that’s mania. Mania exists on the opposite side of the spectrum of depression, which is why we usually call it “manic-depression” when someone has mood swings. I’m fine with creating new definitions and using whatever words you want to use, but by using the word schizophrenia, we lose a connection to mood swings that I think is more representative of our cultural reality right now. We’re not all manic. Some of us are depressed, and some of us shift between the two.