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Originally Posted by jimi...
If someone has OCD and psychosis they simply have OCD AND psychosis. At least where I live, if you get psychotic you get a diagnosis of psychosis no matter how it happened that you got psychotic.
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I see the problem you are in a different country then I am...I am in the United States. You are in EU according to your profile....
here in the USA the mental disorder diagnostics and groupings/categories have recently changed. here in the USA OCD does include the symptoms of hallucinations/delusional/psychosis type symptoms...and OCD is no longer listed as an anxiety disorder here in the USA....
http://www.dsm5.org/Documents/change...to%20dsm-5.pdf
This change also emphasizes that the presence of
absent insight/delusional beliefs warrants a diagnosis of the relevant obsessive-compulsive or related
disorder, rather than a schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorder.
I know its confusing but psych central is made up of members from many different locations and that means everyone is not going to be going by the same standards for mental disorders definitions/treatment options....for example you and I...
your country sees /treats and thinks of OCD one way and here where I am in the USA we now go according to the new diagnostics published in the DSM 5. in the new diagnostics OCD does allow for symptoms of hallucinations and delusions and no longer labels someone with a psychotic diagnosis just because the person has OCD and hallucinations, or OCD and delusions or OCD and Delusions and hallucinations. its now just the person has OCD with a specifier of symptoms hallucinations/delusions...
kind of like the standards we go by for DID now has a dissociative disorder that has specifiers and subsections that takes into consideration people with alternate personalities things that was not considered to be part of the disorder in the past. like taking into consideration people with alternate personalities that dont lose time, or having dissociation symptoms because of coersion/brainwashing (other specified dissociative disorder) or like the mental disorder PTSD now has a specifier/subsection for people who have a PTSD/dissociation combination of symptoms.
here in America OCD now has specifiers that include psychotic symptoms like hallucinations and delusions.