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Originally Posted by borntoroam
I'm really confused what I'm going through. I feel completely out of touch with reality. I was recently diagnosed with psychosis, but I don't really know why. I was hearing voices + hallucinating in the beginning, but they seem to have faded away. Now I just feel completely detached and as if I'm looking at through a camera lens of a horrible dream/movie. I've tried to talk to my psychiatrist about Dp, but they have no clue what it is or about. How do you really know if it's something you're going through?
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Psychosis can in some people mimic the same symptoms as dissociative disorders.. the way to tell the difference is by the diagnostic criteria. here in america all mental disorders have diagnostic criteria that defines mental disorders from each other.
in the diagnostic book treatment providers in america use for the diagnostics of psychotic disorders hallucinations and delusions are part of the diagnostics where as the diagnostics for depersonalization does not include hallucinations and hearing voices.
you can see more differences in the two by going to the DSM 5 website
for the presently used depersonalization diagnostic criteria click on DSM IV tab
http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevision...on.aspx?rid=58
for psychotic disorders again click on DSM iv tab for the presently used diagnostics
http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevision...n.aspx?rid=146