Can obsessive thoughts be psychosis?

DX'd - Sz/SzA
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I once spent 3 days searching about schizophrenia and if I was faking it. I didn’t sleep in that time I become so obsessed with it. I did get involuntary hospitalised on that occasion.

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Besides suffering with Schizoaffective I also suffer with OCD.
My obsessions flare up when I become psychotic as well.

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I have Schizoaffective disorder. I thought about OCD myself? When I well I over-analyse conversations with my community nurse or pdoc. I over-analyse thinking they think I’m faking it. I also have persistent thoughts that my care team are keeping secret folders on me, this becomes more intense when I’m unwell. I think I’m faking it but I have been on a community treatment order since 2011 because of non-compliance with meds, so think to myself they must think I have SZA to keep me on it all this time?

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you got hospitalization due to your obsession alone?

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No, for being manic and psychotic. flight of ideas and neologisms.

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Off meds I get obsessive thoughts, it drains you, on meds not so much

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alright then. I was obsessed with sz in the beginning of my illness and right before it. I was reading online all day long.

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I noticed around the time I was beginning to exhibit psychotic symptoms, I also got obsessed about Schizophrenia. It’s happening again so I wonder if I’ll become psychotic again some time soon…

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Obsessive thinking is common with psychosis.

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Can I argue the case I have OCD instead of SZA? I have a long history as a SZA patient and its deemed as chronic condition. I personally think I haven’t got SZA. I feel like I’ve faked it. Could my condition be down to OCD alone. I severely hurt myself cutting a (supposed) microchip out my armpit when I drunk. I think it was down to the alcohol and obsessive thinking about microchips alone How can I persuade my pdoc I have OCD?

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I get very obsessive when I get unwell, it ties in with my delusions I get stuck in what I call ‘looping’ where I make connections between different experiences and signs or symptoms, I can ruminate and obsess for days before being able to stop. I have a diagnos of thought process ocd so I don’t do actions it is purely thought based

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