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How can i tell if i'm actually psychotic?

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By consulting psychi: You need to consult with a psychiatrist who can take your whole history. Isolated """psychotic symptoms may be clinically meaningless, so i think reciting them all here would be doing you a disservice if you were just having an isolated psychological event. It. Can even be difficult for even a seasoned psychiatrist to tell if someone is psychotic. In those cases we obtain projective psychological testing to determine whether someone has a more subtle psychosis. Many people have psychosis like symptoms but are not actually psychotic. There is also such a thing as a pseudo-psychosis. Please consult with a psychiatrist because this is a very delicate subject. Fortunately the treatments are often quite effective.

Answered 1/9/2014

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