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Originally Posted by The_little_didgee
PTSD can definitely cause psychotic symptoms. It can appear similar to schizophrenia but without the cognitive impairment and disorganized thinking/speech. Has complex PTSD been explained to you? Some clinicians consider cPTSD to be BPD. In these individuals psychotic symptoms emerge during periods of stress and is connected to feelings of abandonment. It is a part of the splitting defense. These psychotic reactions develop abruptly and are brief. Their delusions can easily be corrected when someone points out the irrational thoughts which makes them very different from a schizophrenic delusion. These are firmly held beliefs that usually develop gradually and cannot be changed with suggestion and contradictory evidence.
Usually when a person becomes psychotic they question what is happening to them until they reach full psychotic insight. The prodromal period is confusing, because the person is struggling to determine what is real or not. Some people can stay in this period of years and may not even develop psychosis.
It is very possible to have hallucinations without delusions.
Have you had your iron and B12 levels checked?
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Complex PTSD has never really been explained to me in these terms with relation to psychosis/hallucinations. I honestly had no idea there was a link between BPD and PTSD. I have borderline, so this makes a lot of sense.
The thing that still puzzles me is why the hallucinations have nothing to do with my supposed trauma (still figuring out exactly what that is) and why I was full on psychotic (throwing away computers and electronics, knocking on neighbors doors asking if they were spying on me, looking for spy cameras everywhere, driving out of state in hopes of escaping electronic weapons reach, etc.) when it first started. It still freaks me out because I'm afraid it will happen again. That's another reason I wanted a 'proper diagnosis'... ya know, in case things go south again.
I found the first thread I made here from late 2012 that might put things into perspective.
http://forums.psychcentral.com/schiz...less-life.html
I got talked down quite easily. Is that a good sign?
Sorry for posting in this forum if I don't actually have sz or psychosis. I just don't know where else anyone will understand constant hallucinations and fear.
Thank you (and Sometimes_psychotic) for helping.