How Psychotic Are You?

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In my last topic, I asked Are You Neurotic? Now I'm wondering how psychotic you are. Psychosis itself is an episode of psychological break from reality. However, personality traits found in actively psychotic individuals are distributed in the population at large. Hans Eysenck attempted to measure this as psychoticism, which actually comes closer to measuring psychopathy than psychotic tendencies. Another measure of psychotic personality traits is called schizotypy; it is a more accurate measure of the classically psychotic characteristics:

• Unusual experiences
  
  • Hears things with no recognizable source
  • Experiences things as more vivid at times, more dull and flat at others
  • Feels bodily sensations with no identifiable cause
  • Sees things that aren't there
  • Nebulous feelings of being watched or persecuted
• Cognitive disorganization
  
  • Tangentiality in conversation
  • Racing thoughts
  • Difficulty finding words
  • Invents new words or uses words with nonstandard meanings
  • Loses train of thought
• Introverted anhedonia
  
  • Little pleasure in life
  • Lack of emotional expression
  • Afraid of unfamiliar situations
  • Anxious
• Impulsive nonconformity
  
  • Bizarre emotional response
  • Behavior that is detrimental to self or others without forethought
  • Ignores social convention

not at all psychotic. this axe is merely for ... erm ...

what dose nortic mean

ok i have no idea what you are all taking about
it doisnt sound like it has anything to do with autism

The first diagnose I got was schizotypal.

I had some pretty wild stuff like this happen to me on concerta/ritalen. psychois by amphetamine is no fun, I'll tell you all that.

Unusual experiences:

Hears things with no recognizable source [rarely]
Experiences things as more vivid at times, more dull and flat at others [no]
Feels bodily sensations with no identifiable cause [rarely]
Sees things that aren't there [no]
Nebulous feelings of being watched or persecuted [yes]

Cognitive disorganization:

Tangentiality in conversation [yes]
Racing thoughts [yes]
Difficulty finding words [yes]
Invents new words or uses words with nonstandard meanings [yes]
Loses train of thought [happends]

Introverted anhedonia:

Little pleasure in life [often]
Lack of emotional expression [yes]
Afraid of unfamiliar situations [yes]
Anxious [yes]

Impulsive nonconformity:

Bizarre emotional response [yes]
Behavior that is detrimental to self or others without forethought [happends]
Ignores social convention [yes]

Could someone please provide some sort of scoring system for this outline?
All we can really do with it at the moment is see who's crazier than who.

I really don't know whether someone can call themselves 'psychotic', 'neurotic', or anything else for that matter.

I took an online personality test a few days ago, in order to try to compare results between the two. The criteria for determing psychosis outlined above are, like so many of these lists of criteria - contingent upon the circumstances in force at the time.

The notion of 'bizarre behaviour' is arbitrary. I think 'bizarre behaviour' is perfectly reasonable in response to 'bizarre circumstances'. Similarly, 'social convention' is arbitrary, after all, if everybody rocked back and forth on occasion in public (as I sometimes have to stop myself doing halfway through), then that would be considered 'normal behaviour'. Equally, if only a single individual in the pub was making an absolutely unjustified racket in front of the television when the Football is on (Soccer outside the UK), shouting imprecations and the players on the pitch, or offering encouragement to their favourite team, then he would be considered the 'weirdo', while everyone who was rocking back and forth, and getting increasingly irritated with the squeaky hinges on the entrance door sound, or the impenetrable buzz of over-loud chatter would be the 'majority'.

Is that the defining difference between normal/abnormal or conventional/bizarre?

Here are the results of the test I took, which while not a real basis for concern as an unmoderated online test hardly qualifies as epitomising clinical rigour and objectivity was one of the better tests of its kind that I have seen.

Personality Disorder Test Results
Paranoid |||||||||||||||| 66%
Schizoid |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Schizotypal |||||||||||||| 58%
Antisocial |||||||||| 38%
Borderline |||||||||||||||| 62%
Histrionic |||| 14%
Narcissistic |||| 14%
Avoidant |||||||||||||||| 70%
Dependent |||||| 22%
Obsessive-Compulsive |||||||||||||||| 70%
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Paranoid 82%
Schizoid 74%
Schizotypal 82%
Antisocial 38%
Borderline 76%
Histrionic 38%
Narcissistic 26%
Avoidant 54%
Dependent 56%
Obsessive-Compulsive 82%

omg, this is depressing