Welcome to the Jungle, Revised Edition. Hilary T. Smith
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Название: Welcome to the Jungle, Revised Edition
Автор: Hilary T. Smith
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары
isbn: 9781633410541
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HALLUCINATIONS
Hallucinations can be auditory, visual, tactile, or even olfactory. You might see people who aren't really there or hear voices giving you commands. Hallucinations can be more or less scary, and they can also be caused by lack of sleep. Like the other aspects of psychosis, hallucinations are on the spectrum of normal human experience and can range from interesting to terrifying and dangerous.
DELUSIONS
Delusions are tricky, because there is such a fine line in our society between which beliefs are considered acceptable and which are considered insane. For example, millions of people hold the same “perfectly normal” religious beliefs that would be considered bizarre and outlandish if they were held by a single person. The DSM-V defines a delusion as “a false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly sustained despite what almost everybody else believes and despite what constitutes incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary. The belief is not one ordinarily accepted by other members of the person's culture or subculture.” A good example of a delusion is the belief that you're being held captive by kidnappers, when really the “kidnappers” are your stoner roommates who wouldn't even notice if you left the house. If you're delusional, it can be hard to believe friends who tell you your delusions are false. You might believe they're lying, thereby interpreting their comments in a way that confirms your version of reality.
THOUGHT DISORDER
Thought disorder is easiest to identify in a person's speech or writing. It's characterized by a person not making sense from one sentence to the next or making associations that don't make sense to anyone else. For example: “The plane left the airport at three o'clock, and therefore the daisies in the bowl were put there by the dragon.”
LACK OF INSIGHT
In psychiatry, insight means the ability to recognize when your behavior and thought patterns are coming from your mental illness as opposed to your regular self. For example: “I realize that the voices in my head aren't coming from real people, even though it really feels like they are.”
Insight can vary drastically in psychotic episodes. A person experiencing a full-blown episode of psychosis may not realize that the person sitting next to them on the bus can't also see that the bus is being driven by the Hindu deity Ganesh. Another person experiencing psychosis might slip in and out of insight, alternately realizing that their reality isn't shared and believing that it is. A third person might be aware the whole time that nobody else can see what they're seeing.
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