What are your symptoms if you don't mind me asking. I checked your profile and it says you have been diagnosed with "psychosis NOS." Sometimes when I go to the hospital that is what they diagnose me with. My actual doctors say schizoaffective disorder bipolar type. At my family doctor somehow i got diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. The last time I got out of the hospital this year I got diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder with psychotic features. I am truly sorry for what you are going through. People in general don't understand mental illness. That includes some doctors. If they are a psychiatrist they are supposed to be experienced in dealing with mental illnesses but I have come across jerks that never understood me. The main thing I deal with is people downplaying. A long time ago I had a therapist (not a full psychologist or psychiatrist) said I don't have psychosis because I can talk coherently. She said I have "psychotic ideas" and not "psychosis." In paranoid schizophrenia thought processes don't get as affected as someone with disorganized schizophrenia and I DO talk and write incoherently occasionally, even on these very boards. Especially when psychotic or stressed. So there are definitely people who don't understand. The funniest psych doc I've had (and I'm NOT joking here even though when I explain it might sound like a joke) that when I told her I hallucinate and see aliens she said that I'm seeing into another dimension and she's actually met the aliens. Oh by way according to her, the aliens are friendly. But there is a cult out here and she goes there. How old are you exactly?