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Originally Posted by Steve223
Not really, no. Say if someone starts talking to a tree once.....and the tree talks back that is a form of psychosis. The fact that they just took a hit of acid an two hours ago makes no difference, the experience is still deemed psychotic by pdocs. Of course, the tree talking was caused by the acid, but the fact that it was from drugs does not make a difference to shrinks. You might be a totally sane person, but the experience was insane. If someone has the same experience once without taking acid, but it never happens again then the experience is still deemed psychotic by pdocs whether you are sane or not. However, if this happens all every day for at least 6 months and you cannot function, then your deemed schizophrenic. If the same guy who took the acid keeps conversing with trees 6 months later then he has drug induced schizophrenia
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Yes it's all psychosis but there is a separate dsm category for drug induced psychosis. If you only have one event without acid it may or may not be psychosis. If your cultural beliefs suggest that you can talk to trees perhaps by entering a trance state and you talk to trees it's not psychosis same as hearing God speak to you...any sort of cultural belief can cancel out the label of psychosis. There are also common hallucinations like hearing your phone ring as soon as you get in the shower when it didn't really ring that aren't considered psychotic. Apparently people sometimes also feel their phone vibrate when it's not happening. As far as the acid guy 6 months out depends if he's still using, if he is it's still drug induced psychosis but if he's abstained and still psychotic then yeah schizophrenia. But an awful lot of this depends on the pdoc a lot of them take the dsm as sort of a rough guide and sort of sort out how they think about a person by gut feeling so any one person can get like four different Dx's from different pdocs.