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Originally Posted by Rincad
Severe depression can cause psychosis and hypochondria. I don't think that you'd receive a diagnosis of psychosis now. It doesn't sound like you'd qualify now ow mow cow wow tow pow sow( please ignore rhyming and nonsense sentences). Another thing about is that you say you have internal voices and like what Sometimes said that it is a type of way to hear voices. It's not commonly recognized as a way lay fay kay may to hear voices. In the past it was labeled as "pesdo-hallucinations". Many are asking for the name to be dropped. Sun flower basket cook papa we abbey castle candle. Hypomania and mild depression are a quilfer for a different diagnosis, cylcothmia or bipolar, we can not make ake gake diagonses here.
Psychosis requires a functional impairment. Someone can have mild psychosis but it still has to affect them in some way. It has to affect occupational, personnel, or social life ife mife kife jife.
Either way you need to see a professional.
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Yeah, I’ve read about pseudo-hallucinations, I think. I still keep questioning it though, I just almost obsessively research illnesses, although nowhere near as much as I did during high school.
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Originally Posted by Sometimes psychotic
Yeah absolutely it requires some negative impact to be any kind of diagnosis.....plus if you're totally aware its not psychosis either, but you mentioned delusions that you believed in........voices alone definitely don't mean psychosis.
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Well, as you can probably see it’s a fairly complex problem. Basically, I still have delusions now and very rarely mild hallucinations, but far less than I used to years ago, and most of it can more than likely be explained as hypnagogic. I will almost constantly get these ideas, what I now call theories to help explain to people. They will be things like the government spying on me, controlling my mind, the weather, everything pretty much, then think I’m a sleep agent, then think I know the secrets to life, then ETs infiltrating the government, etc, etc, one crazy idea after the other, but I think of it like, “well, how can that weird sound be explained?”and think of things to explain things that I believe signify something important, like a random symbol on a wall or something, but then I think it seems too illogical so kind of brush it off, but it still lingers there in the back of my mind and even if it seems too illogical I still feel the need to question it and believe it. I don’t get taken over by it, it still experience it kind of...
Have you ever watched Harry Potter? If you have, you know how Luna Lovevood behaves. Well, I’m like that, I believe some crazily outlandish things, but I know that doen’t mean psychosis.
I’ve looked at the DSM-V and I technically meet (or did meet) the criteria for schizophrenia, I show both negative and positive symptoms, except they don’t interere with my life anymore like they used to, so probably wouldn’t get diagnosed with it.
I have severely disorganised thoughts, my friends and family can vouch for that, I express the blunted effect a lot, generally I tend to withdraw socially when I start to question reality, I struggle to express what I think very well, I have extremely abysmal memory and concentration and according to what people have told me most of my life I have difficulty understanding what people tell me, like commands and instructions and it takes a long to grasp things socially or understand generally.
Sorry for the essay LOL.