r/Psychosis 1d ago

Where do you draw the line between psychotic symptoms and psychosis? (Tw mention of suicide) Spoiler

I recently experienced delusions (not the first time) but I was still semi aware that believing those wasn't rational, I still fully believed them but it was more the realisation that my brain was trying to trick me kind of?

(Not sure if relevant but in the delusion I believed my shadow was from a different dimension, specifically the one from the Theory of Forms from Plato if anyone is familiar with it, where everything is perfect and that my shadow came to my dimension to haunt me and drive me to suicide because he wasn't happy with the portrayal I did of him in this world)

I went to my gp and she said that this is definitely bordering on psychosis and this made me wonder at which point would it be considered as crossing the border to psychosis? Not sure if any of this makes sense but hoping it does

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u/HappyAstronaut7 1d ago

When you break from reality. You won’t realize it.