My psych records say delusions. The thing is I’ve had a measure of insight but that’s never stopped the thought when it’s happening.
Voices,if I have ever had them(loud thoughts v internal hallucinations?) have been infrequent. If hallucinations would place them as ‘pseudo’.
Just delusions would be something like delusional disorder, which is still a psychotic disorder. To me anything indicating a split from reality is psychosis.
Psychosis is the loss of touch with external reality.
Does this definition apply when you’re having delusions?
I thought that Delusional people were Psychotic?
Now I’m confused …
So when I was twice Involuntarily committed I wasn’t Psychotic?
I suffered with only delusional behavior and paranoia.
Please further explain yourself @firemonkey.
Well the belief that I have female body parts isn’t based in reality. The pdocs have classified me as delusional in the past.
When you believe that you have female body parts, do you know where you are? What planet you’re on? Etc.
I am just sounding things out. I’m in a grey area. Have had terms like psychotic symptoms and thought blocking mentioned.
I believe people who are psychotic are always delusional, but people who are delusional are not always psychotic.
I’m not that far gone but then again psychosis may lie on a continuum than involve a simple Yes/no divide.
I was both Delusional and very paranoid.
I needed to be in a Hospital setting.
I’m assuming that I was Psychotic.
I think the yes/no divide is a good point. For example, a person may lose touch with reality, then regain, then lose, then regain, etc.
I want to add that I believe that if a person loses touch with reality even once they would be considered to be in a psychotic state.
By the sounds of things you probably were. Mild psychosis,on the other hand is such a grey area.
I guess my strongest reason for thinking something untoward was going on was that regular APs have taken away the weird thoughts. Perhaps because they are doing what what an AP is supposed to do ,
I had the ol’ alien delusions, but also ones involving real life social situations. I think you can know what planet you’re on and still be delusional. I think of psychosis as dreaming while you’re awake. It samples things from real life and more out there ways of thinking. It’s like having a projector running in the back of your head and all you can do is sit there and watch.
I have the delusion that I am an apprentice of some sort to become God, the Devil, or some sort of higher up when I die. I also have the delusion (if you want to call it that) that I may end up in hell as a “loser” being tortured for an eternity. I’m also under the impression that one of these outcomes will happen for an eternity then will end when the universe ends and everything from the beginning of time will start over again. I seem to believe we are in an eternal loop and different outcomes of my existence (and everyone elses) have happened before and will happen again. Even when I don’t believe these things about myself I find myself hoping it’s true mainly so I don’t end up in hell when I die. I’m not even really religious at this time. I believe I am psychotic.
Interesting question. I have delusional disorder. My only real symptom is a chronic delusion. However, I am not always psychotic.
Every day (24/7) I believe I am in a brain study being mind controlled and watched by the whole world. This never goes away. However…I am perfectly aware of ‘this’ reality and can function perfectly in it. I go to school, do my homework, go to Starbucks, grocery shopping the gym, hold perfectly sane conversations etc. I believe in my delusion but I am keenly aware of what everyone else believes and can function in that reality.
Now, the times I have been psychotic and hospitalized was when there was no line between my delusion and reality. The two realities were blurred and I totally lost touch. I behaved very oddly and was obviously mentally ill and needed help.
To me, there is an absolute difference in just being delusional and being psychotic. That is being aware of ‘reality’ and able to function in it and not being aware and not being able to function in it.
That is just my opinion and experience.
That’s kinda like me. My delusion is that God Himself talks to me everyday in the pages of my prayer book. And I talk back to Him in a prayer journal. The conversation is interactive and meaningful. I fully believe in my delusion. I’m aware that my doctor’s and nurses do not believe in my delusion. My life is completely normal for a retired person otherwise. I sleep at normal hours for normal lengths of time. I eat normally at normal times of day. My hygiene is normal. Although I sleep in my clothes and only change clothes once a week, that is part of my negative symptoms. I tend to isolate a lot. Also part of negative symptoms.
I always had hallucinations accompanying my delusions. I believe the hallucinations came first then the delusions for me
I was diagnosed with delusional disorder and subsequently paranoid schizophrenia with just delusions and negative symptoms.
Then I quit taking my meds once and had full blown visual hallucinations. I made the disease worse by stopping my meds or the meds made me psychotic by stopping them. Who knows.
Moral of the story is I am happy maxed out on my antipsychotics. When I hallucinate I can’t tell what I am experiencing is not real and it was very scary.
Delusional Disorder is still considered a psychotic disorder.
does anyone really know what ‘reality’ is though? truly?
Oh lord I don’t want to have that conversation. Gives me a headache every time.
I think everyone on here has experienced their own separate version of reality. Technically everyone has but true that most on here’s experience has varied widely from the norm.
A split from the commonly accepted reality, if you prefer.