Posted by OldSchool on March 20, 2002, at 21:52:12
In reply to need psychosis defined if possible, posted by trouble on March 20, 2002, at 21:23:52
> dx:
> major depression
> schizo-affective
> ADHD
> PTSD
> Pers.Disor. NOS
> psychotic tendencies?
>
> this last is holding up my soc.security disability insurance. My p-doc says I have psychosis and the SS pdoc says I most emphatically do not, b/c I know when I'm getting confused and irrational, evin if I can't stop the thoughts I know they're off the wall. He says this self-awareness indicates I'm not psychotic, that to be psychotic is to believe your delusions are true.
> My p-doc says it's not that simple.
> Any information would be appreciated! I'll read books if that's necessary, of course.
>
> thanks
> trouble
Your Pdoc is full of shit, like so many psychiatrists. If you recognize your thoughts are not based in fact, you arent psychotic. It is something else, OCD or something. Period. Maybe your psychiatrist is the one who is psychotic, I think quite a few of them are nutcases themselves.Here is the Websters dictionary definition of psychosis: a major mental disorder in which the personality is very serious disorganized and contract with reality is usually impaired: psychoses are of two sorts, a) functional (characterized by lack of apparent organic cause, and principally of the schizophrenic or manic depressive type), and b) organic (characterized by a pathological organic condition such as brain damage or disease, metabolic disorders, etc.). see INSANITY
Thats what real psychosis is. Losing touch with reality. Hallucinations, hearing things, smelling things that arent there, feeling bugs crawling on you, delusions, serious paranoia.
One problem with the above definition of psychosis is that the neuroscientists are finding out that ALL psychotic illnesses are organic. Functional neuroimaging is clearly showing this. The brains of schizophrenics and manic depressives show deficits in function on high tech brain scans. You should read about the functional neuroimaging research of schizophrenia being done by Dr. Nancy Andreason, MD, PhD. There was some mention of her research in the January 2002 "Prevention" magazine. Schizophrenia is indeed a brain disease, it is not a "psychological" problem. That means psychosis...or insanity, is a neurological disease basically.
Your SS disability is probably trying to find a way to not give you disability by denying that you are psychotic in the classic sense. Which you probably are not. Psychiatrists have a tendendy to overreact, overanalyze and basically make people feel worse. If your SS disability says you are not psychotic, you probably are not.
You dont have to be psychotic to get SS disability BTW.
Old School
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