Posted by boB on April 8, 2000, at 12:22:48
In reply to What is psychosis like?, posted by Morc on April 7, 2000, at 22:24:02
The diagnosis of psychosis depends in large part on who is making the diagnosis. Many practitioners classify most spiritual beliefs to be psychotic, under the classification of magical thinking. Others practice the same kinds of behaviours that would be considered psychotic, such as offering in a clinical setting regression excercises and suggestions of past lives (this really happens). Psychosis, as defined by DSM-IV, comprises a wide range of mental conditions. Some people are obviously psychotic, at least that is my opinion having met some in public and in institutions. Other psychotics have very public lives, and their pathologic behaviour escapes diagnosis. I believe we have a large number of this kind of people in government, in the military, in the finanacial sector, and even in the academies.
If you want to know how psychosis feels, it is easy enough to degrade you mental organization with fatigue, hunger or neurotropic substances (including alcohol). The particular feeling will be subjective, depending on your life experience and the nature of your psychotic episode.
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