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May 01, 2023, 04:47 PM
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Member Since: Apr 2013
Location: Ontario Land
Posts: 3,592
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Can you define poor self image?
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Originally Posted by Valcingetorix5150
Psychosis can sneak up on you. My only psychotic experiences are in the area of delusional thinking. During the actual psychotic episode, you don’t see yourself as doing anything weird or thinking anything weird. Everything seems very real. Later, when you are back to a ground state, there may be large gaps in your memory as actually what happened.
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This is what happened to me as well. The bizarre thinking "sneaked" up on me. It really felt normal and rational at the time.
The hallucinations I experienced were a lot easier to challenge. In the beginning I knew they were not normal. As the illness progressed, the experiences became more frequent and impossible to ignore which made functioning difficult. E.g., I nearly flooded my apartment because I walked away from the sink while experiencing a hallucination. They were also the same theme as the delusional thinking. It was like they reinforced it.
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Other symptoms of psychosis people noted in me was difficulty staying on topic, social withdrawal and profound agitation.
Sometimes medication can cause hallucinations, which has happened to me as well. This was different from psychosis and resembled more of a dream-like state without delusions.
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Dx: Didgee Disorder
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