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Originally Posted by Gr3tta
I am interested in this. I see things that others do not and hear voices daily, but this does not generally interfere in my ability to go about my daily tasks.
I have only experienced a couple episodes where my thoughts and beliefs became so unusual and so far from reality that i was unable to function for an extended period of time. For myself i am considering extended days/weeks not months/years. I do occasionally experience brief episodes of this but by brief i mean minutes to hours. But that is rare.
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Yeah you actually sound pretty unique too---are you NOS? But yeah I know there are people who hear voices who don't even get a psych diagnosis at all because they are functional. I really haven't read much about the relapse/remission rates, but it seems like most people have some sort of residual hallucinations in between episodes based on everything I've read. Thats what I was actually thinking was so unique about didgee was the spacing of the episodes and I think lack of hallucinations in between. The one case I read about like that was Mark Vonnegut who had a long enough break to be dxed with sz then recovered for like 10 years went to harvard med then had another break. But yeah you don't sound like you actually fit any of the DSM categories at all---but of course I'm not a pdoc so disregard my speculation.