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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic
Psychosis is a symptom of schizophrenia...it's like the hallucinations delusions and cognitive difficulties etc but for schizophrenia there are more criteria...you have to be impacted for at least 6 months although you only need 1 month of psychosis. You just have to have reduced functioning at school work or social life during that 6 month period. Some people get psychosis and never develop schizophrenia. If your psychosis is less than a month it's brief psychotic disorder and if it's more than 1 month but less than 6 it's schizophreniform. There is also schizoaffective or bipolar with psychosis if you also have mood symptoms and even psychotic depression. If you don't really hallucinate but have delusions there is also delusional disorder but that is considerd a type of psychosis as well. These days they simply refer to all of these as the schizophrenia spectrum just like the autism spectrum ...
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I find this to be very interesting. My first episode started after taking adderall but i always thought there was something different about me when i was younger. I hsve not been in pychosis since november and i never see or hear things that arent there. Im sitting here just so confused as to what im going through. My pychosis always comes after i use or drink. I remember everything i do. Im usually more delusional. Like i could heal people, or the tv was sending me messages, the whole coding thing i do and i sit here right now thinking how the hell did i even think that. I cant laugh it off because some of the stuff i thought was just insane. I isolate, i feel like someone looks at me and they can see that im trying to hide something. Its like i have post pardum of my delusions. I get flashbacks because of the stuff i thought. I think my paranoia is my eorst sympton. Like i caught myself the other day when i was driving i thought someone was following me. I wrote down the license plate but when ingot home i was like what a stupid way to think. I always talk to myself in my head, my racing thoughts are so frustrating. Its so confusing. I just cant get a base diagnoses because i always used to start drinking or drugging. I just want to go a year with no delusions. Im on no meds, going to see my therapist tomorrow. Maybe its guilt,depressive delusions or maybe im just a paranoid schytzo or maybe im just thinking its paranoia when its just anxiety. So so confusing...