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No one is getting (properly) diagnosed with schizophrenia with incidents of drug induced psychosis, which is what you’re describing. Schizophrenia as a diagnosi
by robbiep 3y ago
No one is getting (properly) diagnosed with schizophrenia with incidents of drug induced psychosis, which is what you’re describing. Schizophrenia as a diagnosis relies on the presence of both negative and positive symptoms (as defined in the literature). Other people here have talked about the definition and fluidity of schizophrenia, things change but what does not change is schizophrenia is characterised by not only the positive and negative symptoms but also by being a degenerative condition.
As opposed to drug induced psychosis, which is reversible if you remove the aetiological agent.
- aatd86 3y agoThe issue is that it is not clear cut at all. Psychosis is a positive symptom. But by changing the neuro-transmitter balance when treating psychosis with anti-psychotic medication, negative symptoms can also appear. Depending on who establishes the diagnostic, you can be diagnosed as schizophrenic while you are simply in one of the phase (acute or post) of psychosis. In general, if you repeatedly suffer from bouts of psychosis, you will get a diagnosis even though the real trigger has not been established. Also, the presence of negative and/or positive symptoms differs from people to people so even that is not clear-cut.