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Originally Posted by amandalouise
here in america we switched over to a new standard for what is and isnt a mental disorder in 2013. short version of what is happening is a persons existing diagnosis's are being transferred over to the new system. Delusional disorder is a new diagnostic label for when someone has had a history of delusional thoughts, delusional beliefs that have lasted more than a month.
a delusion is thinking or believing something that is not true.
example if at some point in my life i thought and believed my co worker was possessed or had a mental disorder she does not have thats called a delusional belief, delusional thought with out having a hallucination.
another example would be if I thought I had a mental disorder that does not actually exist without having a hallucination with it is called having delusional disorder symptoms... for example lets use one of your posts where you said you thought you may have hysteric psychosis. there is no such existing diagnosis label for this. we did have a diagnosis like 40-50 years ago (I think it was the DSM3 when we are now on DSM5) called hysteria not hysteric psychosis.
my point your treatment providers may be matching what you are telling them you think you have to the existing diagnostics and when they encounter a diagnosis you think you have to which we do not have that diagnostic label they mark that as being the new diagnostic label Delusional Disorder.
that said the only way to get past diagnostics off a present file is by going through a psychiatric evaluation for diagnostic purposes. this is an extremely long process (both mental and physical assessments/tests) to discover what your present mental and physical health problems are. once that is done your file will show paperwork that shows what your present diagnostics labels are.
my suggestion talk with your treatment providers, ultimately only they can say how and why they have you placed as being delusional disordered and if you still do not agree with them you can ask them for the formal testing process of under going a complete psychiatric evaluation.
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O.k. maybe I still have delusional disorder in a very, very mild form. Sometimes I have absurd ideas, that nag at me and cause stress. But I know these ideas are absurd. Most people with delusional disorder, don't understand that their thoughts are absurd. Here are links to a couple of recent threads where I described these struggles.
http://forums.psychcentral.com/schiz...i-dismiss.html
http://forums.psychcentral.com/schiz...rstitious.html
I suppose my continual questions to people on this forum might get annoying ("have you ever heard of this type of symptoms?", ...). The therapist I currently see, has asked me why I keep researching things on the internet and looking for natural remedies instead of listening to her and going for prescription drugs. (BTW, this therapist thinks that I do NOT currently have a problem with psychosis or delusional disorder. Originally she wanted me to take anti-psychotics, but now she agrees that I don't need them. She wants me to take antidepressants though. We are doing CBT, and that is helpful.)
Sorry, I got off on a tangent. The reason I keep asking people if they have experienced symptoms similar to mine, is because my illness seems a lot different. Sometimes I wonder if some of my hallucinations were real instead of psychological. I've seen seemingly paranormal things like people that nobody else can see. Most hallucinations that others describe are primitive like a voice saying something mean. My hallucinations (if they were hallucinations) were like sitting and interacting for an hour in church with people that may not have been visible to anybody else. Also my hallucinations were spaced months and years apart, and the hallucinations often seemed totally real except for being very strange. So I keep wondering if maybe they were NOT hallucinations. That is why I keep bothering people with these questions.