Psychosis is more of a "state" rather than an illness with it's own symptoms. Paranoia may go along with it and be wrapped up in it but it's a bit like having a cold and with the cold you have cough and sore throat and headache, stuffy nose, etc. Lots of other things might cause coughs, sore throats, headaches and stuffiness, one doesn't identify a cold from those symptoms but from the whole picture. Same with psychosis but the main thing with a psychotic episode is the being out of touch with reality, that's the most important thing; kind of like the cold actually being a cold germ that will be gone in about a week; when the being out of touch with reality goes away, the psychosis will be gone.
So, if you are not out of touch with reality, the symptoms you are having are probably related to your OCD. Being psychotic makes it pretty impossible to "worry" about intrusive thoughts and how to help make them go away because you are not dealing with reality well so don't even realize the thoughts are not real. If you know the thoughts are thoughts and not really what is happening (whether you feel what you see/think is controllable by you or not) then it is something other than psychosis.
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