This poll is kind of for my only personal curiosity since I feel that I am in the minority in only having delusions and no other positive symptoms while in psychosis. I want to know how many there are like me.
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I still have hallucinations. Already 10 years now. Count yourself lucky!
I have had a lot of different positive symptoms. But someone I work with who also has sz told me he only had delusions as positive symptoms
I only had delusions until I stopped taking my meds about four years into the illness. Then the hallucinations came.
I had delusions and hallucinations (auditory, visual and tactile) and experience a negative symptom called “The flat effect” (Although it is not severe or debilitating)
I don’t have delusions or hallucinations anymore on my current meds.
I do admit that I sometimes had a ringing/buzzing in my ear during psychosis. I suppose that it is possible that that could have been an auditory hallucination…IDK. It sounded a little bit like the old “beeeeeeeep” when the tv stations use to go off the air in the old days. It was extremely faint though. In my delusional state, I thought that it was the sound of someone accessing my brain electronically.
Edit: It could have just as easily been tinnitus.
I will say my delusions are my primary problem during psychosis but I get hallucinations too
Look up a list of positive symptoms, you must have had some agitation or disorganized speech.
I just had delusions mainly.
I’ve looked up positive symptoms before. I did not have disorganized speech. I don’t think agitation is a positive symptom. If I was agitated it was because of my delusions anyway.
I’m mostly asking about hallucinations of one kind or another.
Agitation is definitely a positive symptom of sz. Contributed to me becoming homeless once or twice when I became too unstable over little things at home.
I’ve never experienced positive symptoms, only ipseity disturbances.
You remind me of Roquentin from Sartre’s Nausea, but that book was more about a generalized MI.
Edit but I guess in an opposite kind of way because he was adamant that he existed.
@dividedself I remember Roquentin, he was a dirty fella, which I’m not. But I take your point.
I mainly have delusions, lots of paranoid ones
I have voices but since I got on haldol all i have are delusions and depression it seems to have gotten rid of the voices and took the mania away
I’ve had auditory hallucinations when I was off my med’s, but most of my illness consisted of delusions.
I have had delusions voices hallucinations and intrusive thoughts. Also negative symptoms but they are much better now.
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