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Originally Posted by DR.PAPADROPADOCALOPALIS
sounds like someone had a psychotic break.
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Patients suffering from psychosis have impaired reality testing; that is, they are unable to distinguish personal subjective experience from the reality of the external world. They experience hallucinations and/or delusions that they believe are real,
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That's not a very useful description of psychosis. Most people believe their personal, subjective experiences to be the reality of the external world. In fact, I think someone who believes their experiences in particular are
not real is likely the more disturbed individual--diagnosis comes from disagreement.
Now, if this is a personal and subjective psychosis, can you explain why there are others who share it?