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Originally Posted by roboanxia
Thank you both for the responses.
4:00 the same day, or 4:00 several days later?
What I'm suggesting is that I may have skipped nearly a week, not realizing it until I checked the day wondering why things weren't going as expected.
When I read this article I thought it fit. Holly Gray (healthyplace.com losing time: the insidious nature of dissociative amnesia) thought something had occurred more recently than it actually had. She didn't realize she'd skipped several days until she reviewed the timeline with her partner.
I do have my doubts about the psychosis dx. I don't hallucinate.
They never did give a psychological evaluation from what I can tell. That dx was made by the inpatient psychiatrist with whom I spoke with for less than 30 minutes total. My family was surprised by the diagnosis too.
I think I recieved that dx because I described facial recognition being overactive to the point that I was mentalizing on lifeless photographs. It was automatic. I still knew they were just photographs, but I couldn't control it.
The depersonalization referred to the childhood actions which were involuntary and out of my control.
AlwaysChanging2, the admission went swell. I was there for four days. Most of the people there didn't seem crazy to me, but they maybe weren't telling everything in the groups.
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many diagnosis evaluations are oral meaning done when the client \patient does not know they are being evaluated. they are questionaires that the treatment provider writes down/checks off upon initial meeting. your intake treatment provider probably did one of these while you were currently showing symptoms in the words you were using, what you were telling them was happening(otherwise called self reported symptoms) your body language, how aggressive or non aggressive, or lack of emotions, all kinds of things can be diagnosed with in that first contact meeting now. some there are many different /new psychosis symptoms and disorders since 2013, not all include things like hallucinations, some do include symptoms that are similar to dissociative disorders.
now most mental disorders include the diagnosis criteria that the problems can not be better explained by another mental or physical health problem. it may be that the kind of symptoms that you see as depersonalization and time loss are actually with in the new diagnostics and because you may not fit other criteria for dissociative disorders they may have had no choice but to use the other most fitting diagnosis.
my suggestion is since you dont agree with the diagnosis ask them why they diagnosed you the way they did and if you still after they explain why your problems fit psychosis not dissociative, you still do not agree ask them for another psychiatric evaluation.
here on psych central we cant answer any of those questions that are directly related to how and why and which mental disorder you may have,only your treatment providers can do that.