{"id":183,"date":"2025-02-09T12:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T11:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/farmakologia\/depersonalization-derealization-dissociation-depersonalization-derealization-disorder-beware-it-is-not-the-same-as-psychosis-schizophrenia-and-delusions\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T20:50:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:50:47","slug":"depersonalization-derealization-dissociation-depersonalization-derealization-disorder-beware-it-is-not-the-same-as-psychosis-schizophrenia-and-delusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/farmakologia\/en\/depersonalization-derealization-dissociation-depersonalization-derealization-disorder-beware-it-is-not-the-same-as-psychosis-schizophrenia-and-delusions\/","title":{"rendered":"Depersonalization. Derealization. Dissociation. Depersonalization-derealization disorder. Beware. It is not the same as psychosis, schizophrenia, and delusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dissociation and depersonalization are concepts with similar meanings.<br \/> I have encountered very sad stories where a psychiatrist confused dissociation with psychosis and prescribed antipsychotics to the patient completely unnecessarily, leading to long-term use with side effects such as weight gain. Moreover, the patient only experienced a one-time symptom, which did not even meet the diagnostic criteria for a disorder.<br \/> Professional publications even point out that the use of drugs may not be necessary even when the diagnostic criteria for the disorder are met. This is a rare mental disorder for which experts say to be careful with drugs and to consider whether they are needed at all.<br \/> Similar publications also state that sometimes the patient is scared that they have schizophrenia, while depersonalization is not nearly as serious a health condition.<br \/> Antipsychotics will never improve the symptoms of depersonalization. SSRIs are a better solution, especially for symptoms of accompanying anxiety.<br \/><br \/> Very high-quality research of all professional publications on the topic of depersonalization and the associated disorder is available on Wikipedia. Mandatory reading for psychiatrists and patients.<br \/><br \/> The reason why a psychiatrist may confuse depersonalization with psychosis is that depersonalization is one of the phenomena accompanying schizophrenic psychosis.<br \/><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Depersonalization-derealization_disorder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Depersonalization-derealization_disorder<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dissociation_(psychology)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dissociation_(psychology)<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Depersonalization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Depersonalization<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dissociation and depersonalization are concepts with similar meanings. I have encountered very sad stories where a psychiatrist confused dissociation with psychosis and prescribed antipsychotics to the patient completely unnecessarily, leading to long-term use with side effects such as weight gain. Moreover, the patient only experienced a one-time symptom, which did not even meet the diagnostic &#8230; <a title=\"Depersonalization. Derealization. Dissociation. Depersonalization-derealization disorder. Beware. It is not the same as psychosis, schizophrenia, and delusions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/farmakologia\/en\/depersonalization-derealization-dissociation-depersonalization-derealization-disorder-beware-it-is-not-the-same-as-psychosis-schizophrenia-and-delusions\/\" aria-label=\"Pre\u010d\u00edtajte si viac o Depersonalization. Derealization. Dissociation. Depersonalization-derealization disorder. Beware. It is not the same as psychosis, schizophrenia, and delusions\">\u010c\u00edta\u0165 viac<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmacology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/farmakologia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/farmakologia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/farmakologia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/farmakologia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/farmakologia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/farmakologia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/farmakologia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/farmakologia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/farmakologia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/farmakologia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}