I’m willing to bet that I’m not the only one who has PTSD (as the years of my diagnosis went by). If delusions are constantly bombarding you, developing PTSD is just a matter of time in my opinion/experience. I will be presenting this notion to my psychiatrist on our next meeting.
Can psychosis cause PTSD? I think it does, inevitably. And I think later two of them feed of each oher. Doctors should look to us with compassion. We aren’t an enemy.
I looked up the symptoms of PTSD and I don’t have it. Given what I went through in the past, I was surprised.
I have PTSD from my childhood and PTSD from psychosis. It is possible. I have flashbacks to an episode I had over the summer a lot. It makes me on edge that it’ll happen again. My hallucinations had me convinced I was going to die
As my own experience goes. I think that schizophrenia or psychosis experiences are traumatic enough to lead to symptoms of developing PTSD.
Yea you can get ptsd if your psychotic experiences are that disturbing. Especially if they were particularly intense or for a long duration. I haven’t been diagnosed but I definitely feel I have ptsd from my hallucinations and delusions
I agree I also believe it can cause ptsd and trauma.
When I read a psychology book when I was 19 I thought I had every condition in the book. I thought I was a sociopath, anti-social, a psychopath, dependent, narcissistic, etc. You name it; I thought I had it. I am pleased though that I read the symptoms of PTSD and I don’t think I have it.
What I described is very common among college students studying psychology.
This topic was automatically closed 95 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.