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Originally Posted by Trexller
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lets say with those aforementioned insights you are feeling weird and recognize psychotic and/or anti social behaviors in yourself
then what are you?
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To recognize a hallucination or delusion (the main symptoms of psychosis) as such is to invalidate them, especially the hallucination
A delusion is a false belief in reality, so anyone recognizing the belief as false moves it out of delusion category. People with delusions believe these to be true, not false. No one announces their delusions like “I have this false belief”
Hallucinations are a bit different in that some people can “recognize” them for what they are but these are usually people who are misunderstanding their own inner monologues in their head as hallucinations. True hallucinations should typically come from somewhere external, like the vents, the radio that is turned off, the empty apartment next door, etc. Once again, these are disembodied voices which are not real, but become real to the person hearing them. A person hallucinating will say “my neighbor next door is saying he will kill me” (when no one lives next door), not “I’m hearing a voice that can’t be real because no one lives next door”