#delusional misidentification

[thescarletwitchirl]

good morning to...

irls with ‘weird’ or ‘unusual’ medias

irls with ‘common’ medias

irls who are also systems

irls who aren’t systems

irls who are open about being an irl

irls who aren’t as open about being an irl

irls who use the term ‘irl’ in a kin way

irls who use the term ‘irl’ in a delusion way 

irls who don’t like and don’t use the term ‘delusional attachment’

irls who do like and do use the term ‘delusional attachment’

good morning to all irls!! you all are so valid and i love you all <3

[paleobeast]

man people HAAATE self aware psychotic people don’t they

[the-exanimate-nebula]

as a psychotic person who experiences a "delusional attachment" (for lack of a better word, i suppose) it is genuinely so disheartening to learn the coined term's roots and community. fuckin ew, dude. it was so nice to have a word for a genuine delusional experience i have and then to see what it's linked to, and how other psychotic people feel about it,,, super upsetting

[mangedog]

*includes were[animal]s and so on (so if you're a werehyena, choose feline, etc)

[hauntedselves]

I have a question if you don't mind me asking.

Can someone's parts in a DID system have different types of delusional misidentification syndrome?

For example, say one part has mirror self misidentification whilst another has delusional companion syndrome?

answering this ask here too:

hiya , i have a question if ya dont mind answering . in OSDDID systems can only a few parts have clinical lycanthropy ? or is it a all or nothing thing ?

it depends what's causing the DMS. DMSs are different from other psychotic disorders / syndromes since they're very often caused by a physical factor, like a brain tumor or a TBI. so if the DMS is caused by a neurological disorder like dementia, or a psychological disorder with a biological component like schizophrenia, it'd be more likely that all alters would have it, as the biological aspects of those disorders affects the entire body.

if there's no biological basis for the DMS, then i think it would be possible for one part to have a DMS while others don't / have a different one.

with clinical zoanthropy specifically, you need to be careful that you're not confusing alters that are animals (as is common in DID), or alters that are therianthropes with CZ. it gets pretty confusing - some nonhuman alters are so disconnected from their shared body that they believe their shared body is also nonhuman. working on lessening dissociative barriers will help with this, though if they actually do have CZ it won't (because it's delusional, not dissociative). therianthropes, on the other hand, recognise their body as human and know their animal identity is only internal.

[d1rtgru8-t4lk5]

૮ 𖦹 ﻌ 𖦹ა < iive been feeliing so diissconnected from my body iitss sscary..

૮ 𖦹 ﻌ 𖦹ა < there are partss of my body that eiither feel liike theyre rottiing or like theyve been replaced.. iit diissgusstss me lookiing at my arm iit doessnt feel liike miine and ii can feel my eye decayiing iin iitss ssocket.. ii dont know what to do..

૮ 𖦹 ﻌ 𖦹ა < ii alsso am jusst sstruggliing to see my sself ass aliive.. recently ii attempted and that doess not help.. iive been feeling liike ii diied then and have been walkiing around ass a zombiie?? iit ssoundss chiildiissh and iit iiss embarrassssiing to talk about but iitss really effecting me..

[foxylalonde]

Delusional Misidentification Syndrome

[ID: a 5 striped flag with a black border and shine effect on it. The stripes from top to bottom are silver, brown, pink, green, and silver. The second image portrays the same flag, but with labeling for each color’s meaning, which will be listed again under the cut.]

Delusional Misidentification Syndrome flag!! Can be used as an awareness flag or a pride flag, and is free for anyone to use ^v^

Black Border: general DMS delusions

Black Dots: Delusional belief of identical copies of something (such as in Subjective Doubles and Reduplicative Paramnesia) and delusional belief that multiple people are the same person (eg Fregoli Delusion)

Silver inner and outer stripe: Delusional belief that something has been replaced with an identical copy (eg Mirrored Self Misidentification and Capgras Syndrome)

Brown stripe: Delusional belief that one can or has shapeshifted (eg Intermetamorphosis and Clinical Lycanthropy)

Pink stripe: Delusional belief in sentience of the non sentient (eg Syndrome of Delusional Companions)

Green stripe: Delusional belief that one is dead, decaying, missing their soul, etc. (eg Cotard’s Syndrome)

[objectsarebestest]

I did end up drawing the DCS plushie dreadful to try to cheer myself up. If anyone has suggestions on how to improve it or criticism of things I got wrong please share them.

The sweatshirt is similar to the sweatshirt worn by v2 Schizophrenia Bun to highlight links to the greater psychotic community. I just brightened the purple because I didn’t like that dark color. The symbol on the sweatshirt and back of the ear is also from v2 Schizophrenia Bun and it is the alchemical symbol for “Working in two fields”. This represents having to try to exist in two realities, the reality our objects reside in and what the rest of the world considers “normal” reality. The red cracks on the head represent the brain damage commonly thought to cause DCS, whether it is overt head trauma or a degenerative disease. The squiggles on the ear represent hearing our object’s voices. The head unzips and has two small buns inside. One is the existing plushie dreadfuls Trauma Bun, to show that this is not a “OMG Toy Story in real life lol” thing. It’s a real disorder that can inflict genuine trauma and mess people up for life, and the negative consequences of it deserve acknowledgment and treatment. The other bun has the same body type as the Trauma Bun, but is rainbow tye-dye instead of grey and has happy eyes. I am calling it the Wonder Bun, and it represents the positive side of DCS. It shows that as bad as our object sentience can sometimes be, our lives are not inherently tragic for experiencing it. We can have joy with our objects. The white cube represents our object companions, and it has an elastic strap so the bun can hold it. I tried to keep it detail-less so it can represent the many types of object companions out there.

[illustrioussanguine]

PSINKTOBER: DAY 25: SCARECROW

[dogdenhoarde]

I really don't understand why DMSs need like... something physically going on with the brain in order to "count" or be diagnosed. They're just a type of delusion yeah? So anyone with any capability of experiencing delusion should be able to have them. That makes more sense to me than saying that you need a traumatic brain injury or a brain tumor in order to experience them, or for your experience to count as DMS. If I didn't see mention that schizophrenia counted as a physical brain difference for DMS then I could've entirely written off my experiences with it as something else. Plus, how often do you think TBIs and schizophrenia and such go uncaught? Any sort of physical brain difference at all that goes unchecked, someone doesn't know they have it, and they see that DMS needs that physicality in order to count so they glance over it since as far as they're aware they lack that physical aspect? It's just duuuumb it's duuumb and stupiiiiid. If I'm completely missing something crucial here let me know but it just seems so... needless, when it's just another category of delusion. It's the only kind I've heard that needs that physical part to it or is attributed more to a physical brain cause like a TBI or dementia than to actual psychotic experience

I have beef with the removal of "simple schizophrenia" (schizophrenia with no positive symptoms) from the DSM as well since it wasn't replaced by anything. So imagine how many people have the cognitive and negative aspects of schizophrenia, don't fit criteria for other disorders with similar symptoms, but because they don't have psychosis they can't be diagnosed. It's ridiculous. All my homies hate the DSM

EDIT: I should say, all that stuff about DMSs is stuff I've seen specifically about delusional companion syndrome, but I've seen it for others in the category as well. DCS is so hard to research I'm unsure if it's diagnosable or not without evidence of physical brain stuff going on. So take it all with a grain of salt. Either way it's way WAAAAY underdiagnosed

[ich-theosaurus]

is there a term for a delusion that you are literally a fictional character that ISNT "delusional attatchment"? im so sick of this subject falling in the hands of bad people

[randomwikiarticles]

Mirrored-self misidentification is the delusional belief that one's reflection in the mirror is another person – typically a younger or second version of one's self, a stranger, or a relative.[1] This delusion occurs most frequently in patients with dementia[2] and an affected patient maintains the ability to recognize others' reflections in the mirror.[3] It is caused by right hemisphere cranial dysfunction that results from traumatic brain injury, stroke, or general neurological illness.[4] It is an example of a monothematic delusion, a condition in which all abnormal beliefs have one common theme, as opposed to a polythematic delusion, in which a variety of unrelated delusional beliefs exist.[1] This delusion is also classified as one of the delusional misidentification syndromes (DMS).[4] A patient with a DMS condition consistently misidentifies places, objects, persons, or events.[4] DMS patients are not aware of their psychological condition, are resistant to correction and their conditions are associated with brain disease – particularly right hemisphere brain damage and dysfunction.[5]

[paleobeast]

I have internal nonhuman identities, and external nonhuman identities.

Sometimes they overlap, sometimes they do not. My external clinical zoanthropy can inform my internal identity, and vice versa.

In saying that, my CZ and other non-CZ related identities are NOT the same experience.

[hauntedselves]

The Continuum of Delusional Misidentification

Sno (1994) suggests that Delusional Misidentification Syndromes (DMSs) exist on a continuum, from normal -> slightly abnormal (mild) -> abnormal (severe; delusional).

In this diagram he shows that Cotard's delusion exists as a severe form of depersonalisation, and reduplicative paramnesia as a severe form of déjà vu. "Differentiation is based on the severity of the disturbance of reality testing."

We can assume that this can apply to other forms of DMSs; for example delusional companion syndrome (DCS) might exist on a spectrum from animism to DCS.

Sno, Herman N., 'A Continuum of Misidentification Symptoms', Psychopathology, 1994, pp. 144-147.

[jacksprostate]

wip preview

A year in the psych ward, I’ve qualified for group therapy. A choir of lost souls, taking on a form I’m plenty used to. We're all in our circle of chairs as one of the archangels guides us through meditation. The ball of healing light. The cave inside us, with our power animal. It's obvious I’m the only one with any prior experience here.

I told the angel, I know a lot of these. All the settings and tips and tricks. I could run it for a day if she wants a break. She laughed and said I was funny. I’ve been here long enough, I’m like a declawed, defanged tiger. Jumping through hoops.

Whatever the archangel’s saying, I’m taking my leisurely stroll through the palace of seven doors. Behind the blue door, it’s Tyler’s body. Behind the white door, it’s Tyler’s brain leaking out of his skull.

This is, roughly, how meditation has gone for me since they backed off the benzos enough that I can string two thoughts together again.

Behind the green door, it’s Tyler, half buried in the garden at Paper Street. Up to the gills in blood and shit, just like Dave down the hall every other Wednesday.

Behind the red door, it’s Tyler, in a patient’s loose shirt and sweatpants with no ties so no one gets to hang themselves or each other.

It’s Tyler, entering the room and pulling up a chair. It’s Tyler, and his eyes are more dead than when I blew his brains out.

Tyler?

Everyone looks at me. I’m staring at him. Back to life. I’m Job at the end of all his trials.

Tyler?

Tyler. I plead. Desperate. My body unfreezes, starts the race across the room and the angels aren’t there to stop me before I’m grabbing a handful of his thin shirt and slamming my fist into his perfect cheekbone, getting all up in his dead face and saying you bastard, I shot you. You died. You left me. Tyler. Tyler. Tyler!

He looks through me. He’s seeing nothing, feeling nothing, he has never seemed more like a puppet of a hallucination.

Where the fuck have you been? Why are you back now?

Tyler! I shout. Tyler, answer me you piece of shit. Tyler!

And the angels shoot me full of high concentration promethazine, and I wake back up to learn about falsification of memories, and delusional misidentification syndromes, and all these other words that God seems quite excited about.

[fantasyproneworld]

Fantasilis flag

Fantasilis is a term describing when an individual cannot separate or disconnect their identity from fantasy, fiction, or make-believe.

Said individual can separate reality from fantasy but cannot see their identity as anything other than fantasy due to comfortability. Fantasilis is can come from anything, but primarily shows up in younger individuals who still have a heavy exposure to fantasy without a developed personality.

Can appear in those with fantasy-prone disorder, autism, and/or neuronarration.

Not to be confused with psychosis or delusional misidentification.

Individuals with fantasilic identities may have:

out of body experiences

phantom senses from fantasies or daydreams

morphing/inconsistent or unstable identities

hallucinations