Hospitalization for Husband *Trigger Warning*

TRIGGER WARNING!!!



Well yesterday I had to send my husband to the hospital for psychosis. He has DID. I was wondering if you guys have every experienced severe hallucinations both visual and audio? Did you believe it was true at the time? Did you feel like you are not suppose to be you but someone else during these episodes? Did you feel that you had a purpose that is coming from inside you?

And here is an example of his switching during psychosis. He will be excited and happy and feel the need to be in the hospital, then he takes a shower and walks out angry that he's there and wants to come home. I was wondering if it is severe like that for you?

Thanks for the help.

-- Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:32 am --

I made this a trigger one because recalling these events can be hard to handle and very stressful.

Icdejots,
What I've learned about these things... if someone feels that instructions etc are coming outside of him/her (like from the TV or a light talking), it is quite surely psychosis.

But if the voices come from inside someone, then it is more likely dissociation.

It is not always easy, even for psychiatrists, to tell which is which...

(Don't know if this is of any help to your questions...)

A diagnosis of psychosis is a judgment about the content of the mind, not the form in which the content occurs. There is a famous cautionary tale in the clinical psychology community, known as the Martha Mitchell effect (link below): a person's subjective experience may be highly anomalous and improbable, but not necessarily psychotic. Psychosis is simply loss of contact with reality; as long as the person's reality testing remains intact, they are not psychotic even if they are having such anomalous, unlikely experiences such as hearing voices, seeing things, etc. DID involves many unusual, anomalous experiences, but usually not psychosis.

Most hallucinations are not psychotic. And psychosis does not necessarily involve hallucinations.

I am not psychotic. I have DID and like most people who have DID I do see and hear things that are not perceptible to other people; that does not mean my perceptions are not real. Increasingly, my inexplicable perceptions are turning out to be true; I am perceiving what is not (yet) perceptible to others.

Icdejots, from what you have said I have no idea if your husband is psychotic or no, but it does sound like he is switching between alters. I hope he is in a hospital where the staff understand DID!

Wikipedia: Psychosis
Wikipedia: Martha Mitchell effect

Thank You so much for your help. And yeah you guys have really helped. From what you explained is exactly what is happening right now. He is with a doctor that has worked with one other person in his career with Dissociative Identity Disorder. The facility that he is in is a brand new one and there are only a few people that are there so he can get more personalized attention and I can visit him everyday. I have been trying to find out more information about the hospitalization part of this because I am not him and I admit that I am scared for him & I don't want him to hurt.

I do know his protective Alter is out more than usually because of the frustration of being there and wanting to get prepared to protect himself at all costs. I just want to make sure he is okay.

I am so sorry you and your husband are going through this, but I wanted to take a minute and say ow awesome are you?

Far be it wise from judging someone's personality from a post on the Internet, but you seem to be such an understanding, kind, compassionate spouse. Many SO's get very scared and back away from all this, but not you.

Good job.

DID is not a psychotic disorder.

Sotrsab wrote:DID is not a psychotic disorder.

Correct. However, almost anyone can be made psychotic if given enough medications or mistreated.