Posted by Caedmon on March 25, 2006, at 13:51:23
In reply to Are you psychotic or neurotic? How to tell...., posted by JaclinHyde on March 25, 2006, at 2:18:41
Unfortunately the distinction is not always that simple.
I recall a study in which doctors, blinded to prior diagnostic history, were given schizophrenic patients to evaluate. The blinded evaluations were not very consistent. (Often they were mistakenly Dx'ed as depressed or anxious.) So, even in the more clear-cut cases of psychosis, it may not be so clear-cut.
I subscribe to the "spectrum" model of psychosis in which one can exhibit a certain degree of psychotic Sx without being truly psychotic. I don't think these conditions are black and white.
- C
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