How do you tell if you are suffering from Psychosis?

Question

Lately I have honestly been questioning my sanity I have been having violent thoughts having slight hallucinations and been hearing things I don't know what it is I can even have a conversation in my head where it responds to me and its not exactly me

Answer 1

you stop trying to diagnose yourself and see someone who knows what psychosis is.

Answer 2

You can't! That is why it is called a psychosis. ^_^ Sorry to be so blunt and obvious about it, but think...

A psychotic break happens when you can no longer distinguish the stuff going on in your head from reality. It is literally a failure to reality check. The fact that you still *question* your sanity is a sign that you have some remaining. And likewise, by the time you do have the break from reality....well, at that point you can't tell anymore, and won't be in any state of mind to question it.

This is one of the things that irks me, honestly, about many Mental Illness questions. People may mean well, but it seems like *everyone* is an idiot about the "illness" side of the equation. This stuff is NOT voluntary! Nobody does this on purpose. Nobody makes this stuff up. When someone is in a state of psychosis, reality checking *does not happen* because it *cannot happen*. That is the nature of the illness, it is as much a fact as cancer cells and tumors are a fact of having cancer.

Nobody asks if you are having "the flu" on purpose, do they? But the question comes up all the time with psychiatric illnesses.

But I digress....the good news is, you aren't psychotic yet. You *can* still reality check. You asked the question and are still *aware* that you are hallucinating, hearing voices, having the violent thoughts.

Now here is the bad news. You have to arrange to see a doctor. Now. Why now? Because unless you have *buttloads* of money and/or an old-school traditional insurance plan that *covers* psych issues, it is going to take *time*, and lots of it, to get in to see a doctor on this. Mental Illness is on the *bottom* of the totem pole when it comes to doctors, insurance, HMOs, the whole works. You can expect, on a good attempt with most mental health centers and/or social service systems to be put on a waiting list for 1-3 *months*, minimum, before you get to see someone on an outpatient basis.

And going to the Emergency Room with this isn't an option, not unless you wish to lose *three days* of your life to involuntary confinement, perhaps more, as people poke and prod and probe you with all manner of medications at and beyond max dosages, and *never listen to anything* you have to say. Really, it's bad, once you are in a Psych Ward, even for the 3-day minimum some states require absent a Court Order, your Civil Rights as a human being go down the toilet. And they will especially go down the toilet if you *admit to having Violent Thoughts* as that will make you a Threat to Self And Others. So yeah....

the bad news is that you will have to arrange to see a doctor, *right now* while you still have some sanity left, and then wait, and sit on it, and *not* have a break before the appointment comes.

I'm sorry to break it to you like that, but Mental Health issues in America suck royally like that. Honestly. Take care and stay safe. -_-

Answer 3

Yes, I would say that is borderline psychosis. Anytime you see or hear something that is not really there, you are suffering from psychosis. I hate when people say to "go to the doctor", but you really should.

Lack of sleep can cause this as well. If you are not sleeping, take some sleeping drugs. You need your sleep.

Take care of yourself, you are a wonderful person who is going through a difficult time. This will all be over soon, and you will be back to yourself in no time.

Answer 4

hallucinations are a good indication of mental illness. You need to see a psychiatrist and they can tell you if you are diagnosable. They can help you with treatment and.or medication.

Answer 5

Are you a psychology major or recently taken a psychology class? When people learn new information then they tend to apply it to them selves. As psychology majors say, don't analyze yourself. :)