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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic
Even better is CBT for prevention then you're not just giving people antipsychotics----I think its actually really hard to draw a line when people have psychosis or not, there are actually things called sips or something like that where they decide how many hallucinations it takes to make up psychosis.
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There is a self test that I looked at for prodromal issues. It's the test that some of these learning hospitals and mental health clinics which treat prodromal patients use at intake.
I am not aware of a line being drawn re: psychosis. I was taught that it's really a subjective Dx. All I know is that for me my symptoms are not constant, they vary, etc. So how can there be a test for a certain number of hallucinations occurring, etc.? What is the sips?
I agree that these patients should be treated without Ap's at first.
The fact is that if I'd had an early Dx, and been treated w/ AP's etc. all these years, Id probably be in an institution at this point. I had symptoms begin at about 9 yrs old. I am now 43. That could have been 34 ****ing yrs. of chemical intoxication.
My brain could have been turned to mush. I'm glad that I was not Dx'd so young. I would rather have some low grade symptoms of psychosis than be chemically damaged. I have been damaged enough by the meds I did take for years. I was brainwashed into believing that my mind is broken and I'd never recover and I'd have to take meds for the rest of my life. I'm proving them wrong.