"During a period of psychosis, a person's thoughts and perceptions are disturbed and the individual may have difficulty understanding what is real and what is not. Symptoms of psychosis include delusions (false beliefs) and hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that others do not see or hear)."
"During a period of psychosis, a person's thoughts and perceptions are disturbed and the individual may have difficulty understanding what is real and what is not. Symptoms of psychosis include delusions (false beliefs) and hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that others do not see or hear)."
All that you have done is assert that one way to be out of touch with reality is through psychosis, which we can agree with. But nothing in your description implies that psychosis is thereby the ONLY way one can become detached from reality.
Another would be dementia due to aging and degenerative brain diseases. Yet another would be delerium, a short term process caused by medical issues and which will clear up once those issues are treated. And I believe that some ideologies, in particular those which emphasize the subjective over the objective and dogmatic attachement to Reinforcing the Narrative above adherence to the truth, can also result in detachment from reality.
By your reasoning, a doctor might say "I see you have a fever; the description of West Nile virus includes fever which sounds like your symptoms, so I conclude that you must thereby have West Nile virus". I would not return to a doctor who so reasoned.
West Nile => Fever is not synonymous with Fever => West Nile.
As an example of detachment from the real world, a large portion of self-identified liberals put their estimate of how many unarmed black people are killed by police at 10s to 1000s of times higher than the actual rates. That's seriously detached from reality, but it's not psychosis. On the other side, amazing numbers of people believe that Trump won the last election in a landslide victory, which I would claim to also be very disturbingly detached from reality - but still not thereby meeting the criteria for psychotic.
Your saying in effect that "well, since psychotic people can also be detached from reality, it follows that you are calling anybody detached from reality psychotic" is not defensible reasoning. I hope you will withdraw that logically problematic argument upon deeper consideration.
"During a period of psychosis, a person's thoughts and perceptions are disturbed and the individual may have difficulty understanding what is real and what is not. Symptoms of psychosis include delusions (false beliefs) and hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that others do not see or hear)."
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/raise/what-is-psychosis#:~:text=During%20a%20period%20of%20psychosis,do%20not%20see%20or%20hear).
Sounds synonymous with "detachment from reality" to me
Chris, please rethink that reasoning.
All that you have done is assert that one way to be out of touch with reality is through psychosis, which we can agree with. But nothing in your description implies that psychosis is thereby the ONLY way one can become detached from reality.
Another would be dementia due to aging and degenerative brain diseases. Yet another would be delerium, a short term process caused by medical issues and which will clear up once those issues are treated. And I believe that some ideologies, in particular those which emphasize the subjective over the objective and dogmatic attachement to Reinforcing the Narrative above adherence to the truth, can also result in detachment from reality.
By your reasoning, a doctor might say "I see you have a fever; the description of West Nile virus includes fever which sounds like your symptoms, so I conclude that you must thereby have West Nile virus". I would not return to a doctor who so reasoned.
West Nile => Fever is not synonymous with Fever => West Nile.
As an example of detachment from the real world, a large portion of self-identified liberals put their estimate of how many unarmed black people are killed by police at 10s to 1000s of times higher than the actual rates. That's seriously detached from reality, but it's not psychosis. On the other side, amazing numbers of people believe that Trump won the last election in a landslide victory, which I would claim to also be very disturbingly detached from reality - but still not thereby meeting the criteria for psychotic.
Your saying in effect that "well, since psychotic people can also be detached from reality, it follows that you are calling anybody detached from reality psychotic" is not defensible reasoning. I hope you will withdraw that logically problematic argument upon deeper consideration.