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currently with a care/therapy team for having traits (?)

Postby Ubinix800 » Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:23 am

Hi all, I have followed some of these posts on this forum and other occasionally but not obsessively for a little while now, not self-diagnosing, but with the team i'm with I was told I have "psychotic tendencies" (Vulnerability Group
Attenuated Psychosis Group
‘BLIP’ (Brief, Limited, Intermittent Psychosis) Group

and unusual perceptual experiences, lately, over the past 6 months, but also prior to that, I've vaguely fit some of the critera for negative symptoms of this, prior substance use, stress etc. It is mainly emotional support/long term support thing I was after through my gp and I got it.

I may also have vulnerable narc traits. I had a quick look and apparently APG is less severe for a break, blip is more non-attenuated and more severe, vulnerability is just vulnerability to stress and other aspects 'mising' from the psyche, that could lead to a break. Apparently I was told by crisis team I am up to my 7th break... wonder which category i'd fit, perhaps it doesn't matter.

As well as having heard voices, seen 'things', have had odd beliefs, 'occasional' ideas of reference vaguely delusional-like ideas, derealization, health anxiety (most of the odd thinking was somatic, but I may have had bdd prior), and rarely paranoia but I must admit I think that was linked to substance usage. Ironically, my phycologists and the other team noted I spent a lot of time in the digital world, lack of structure to my life causes a sort of disrupt in 'the here and now' and grounding, but a lot of it was stress related/ideation, I forget the term.

My care co-ordinator and I think I have asd traits or aspergers yet I have known individuals with this and there isn't always a crossover into "psychotic tendencies". I had the full psychosis assessment done.

There's a lot that could cause it, but I am wondering if I have 'traits' of this or eupd traits, however to get a dx of a pd you need to have met the critea for a general pd and have serious disruptions in daily life, I wouldn't say serious, but I do relate vaugly to one or the other. how would I know I have it? never needed to be hospitalized but years ago I considered it but it never happened just got by with occasional help from other services, so I wouldn't really have a dx, in the uk now they move away from this. a sprained leg is a sprained leg, so call a tree a tree and see a doctor but with mh, I was told its not so clear cut...
BDD and vulnerable narcissism/avpd traits.
(possible psychotic traits/undiagnosed, or trauma/anxiety(?)
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Re: currently with a care/therapy team for having traits (?)

Postby Ubinix800 » Mon Jul 15, 2024 9:04 am

Anyone?
"APS comes out of the prodrome literature and is really meant to be a description of one of the syndromes typical of individuals at high risk of transition to a full-on psychotic disorder. APS should be a new development in someone's life and is generally not that stable - in a few years it will either declare itself as psychosis or it is going to resolve.

STPD on the other hand is a more stable pattern for many people. However, when accompanied by a marked recent decline in function, it is also a clinical risk syndrome for development of transition to psychosis." Folks with STPD can have brief, breaks, but shorter than BLIPS, also more in line with what is 'normal' to them, more magical in nature. You almost always have 'symptoms', some of which are normal to the person, not culture bound, genetic family history of psychotic disorders, breif breaks are transient.

BLIPS are similar to APD but last less than a week then their... gone(?), and the persons mental state has returned to normal. This also apparently shows quite a large risk of becoming a psycotic disorder, like, you're just ok one day, next day you have symptoms, like a glitch in the matrix or perceptual distortion, then normal again.
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BDD and vulnerable narcissism/avpd traits.
(possible psychotic traits/undiagnosed, or trauma/anxiety(?)
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