As the name suggests is that correct ?
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I am always out of touch with reality but I don’t think it’s because I am psychotic all the time I just have delusions I can’t shake but maybe.
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It’s when you experience delusions or hallucinations.
Doctors and psychologist do differentiate based on severity as well, but there are no rigid criteria.
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You know I once went to hospital and they gave me morphine.
I really lost touch with reality and I heard and hallucinated bad.
To me that is what psychosis is. I haven’t had that again even when I was off meds
Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech.
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For other reasons or mental problems? I mean were you diagnosed when they gave you morphine?
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The best thing to do is ask your doctor for the definition.
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@anon51414962 No i had a chest operation it was when i was 18 and only got diagnosed a few years ago.
The morphine made me have a terrible reaction and i entered into what i believe was psychosis.
Since then i never had “psychosis” as bad as that so im just wondering if i even have SZ
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I think i heard also that they gave me morphine when general anesthesia because i had broken arm. I remember i was singing, it was so weird… @anon97118089
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From my experience with psychosis, it can be described as completely losing touch with reality,
and it was reflected by some actions, as well.
After you have a psychotic break, you can expect a decline in functioning.
That is what happened in my case, at least.
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When I think of being psychotic, I think of a break. Like you have no connection to the physical world at all. But I guess if having hallucinations and delusions is what defines being psychotic then what a pdoc recently told me about me being mildly psychotic all the time is true. I was wondering about that. Good question.
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That’s the way I’ve always looked at it.
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I guess it varies widely. It seems subjective. I mean I have schizophrenia but I rarely am fully detached from reality. I have one foot in this reality and another foot in psychosis. Seriously, that’s how it is for me. I don’t lose 100% insight. I know something is wrong with me 99.9% of the time. Is it really black and white with no gray area in between? I don’t think so.
Are some people with delusions constantly psychotic? I doubt that. You can be delusional and yet still functioning. I would assume psychosis is very damaging to the brain. I mean it’s probably toxic.
No. Some people just want to point out that they have it worse and exclude others from their group. It’s a counterintuitive status thing.
Yes, some people are. My best friend’s mother has schizophrenia. She never visits her mother because she is treatment-resistant, permanently institutionalized, and permanently psychotic with delusions.
Here’s the different phases of psychosis.
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Yeah I think we’ve all been there, everhopeful.
That doesn’t mean we lived in a dream world. Or that we were only prodromal because we didn’t.
Also, this part is just a suggestion about how it could go down:
“During this phase, the person experiencing psychosis can become extremely distressed by what is happening to them or behave in a manner that is so out of character that family members can become extremely concerned and may start to seek help. Before this stage the individual may have been experiencing a more gradual decline.”
The part before that is the only relevant part if you’re asking for a definition. And it’s basically what I said.
is it still psychosis if you have insight?
I think it differs from person to person. Personally, when i have issues with psychosis, i don’t have much insight into what is going on. I don’t really remember what i’ve said or done. It is embarrassing.
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