#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

[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]

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[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)

[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]

[clowncaraz-journal]

A lot of people have misconceptions or leave out certain parts of the community as a whole because they seem to not have had any sort of interaction with the other part (mainly due to miscommunication and "rarity".

Meanings below:

CLCZ - Clinical lycanthropy & Clincal zoanthropy.

Endel - Delusional Misidentification Syndrome or other form of alterhumanity affected by a delusion.

IRL - In Real Life. A character or creature IRL.

Mythicals - Physically tied to or related to mythical creatures and myths. Usually used to describe "limb growers" like avians or nekos.

[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

[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.

[lordoftablecloths]

alright here's round two

(sorry for the delay I was procrastinating :3)

Winner of round one :

Imposter Syndrome

Invasive Surgery

The Rhine

you know, the funny thing is that I dont even ship these two. talk about public service.

I swear to god if yall put any more names in the comments I will not hesitate to make a third round with considerable delay just like this one

okay yippee lets go remember to reblog !!

[syscultureis]

Delusional plural culture is literally never knowing if you're experiencing a Delusional attachment, a misidentification, or another persona/alter...

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[revenant-coining]

hi! do u know the genders for when your nonhuman identity influences your gender? like seeing your gender in a nonhuman lenses in a way only nonhumans could understand. like how a dog would see their gender.

here’s what we could find:

GenderNH (link): an umbrella term for a gender which is impacted by being nonhuman in some way. This includes but is not limited to alterhumans and nonhumans in systems, delusional misidentification, and vampires.

Alterhumangender (link): an umbrella term for individuals whose gender identity is tied to their alterhumanity.

Speciogender (link): a gender for nonhumans whose species is their gender.

Nohinlexicon (link): a gender which can only be communicated through words of a nonhuman language; a gender which cannot be communicated through human language.

Nonhuman Gender (link): “I know that xenogender/xenic already exists, but this is a subset of that specifically for nonhumans; not for genders beyond the scope of human categorization, but actual people who are not human (This works well for nonhuman system members and kin.)”

-honum (link): a gender that’s related to being nonhuman; a suffix for genders that are related to being nonhuman.

-ideric (link): a suffix for genders that are experienced because one’s kintype, copinglink, vaguetype, constel, or other alterhuman/nonhuman identity experiences that gender. for example, a deerideric person would be someone who experiences their gender like a deer’s because of their deer alterhuman/nonhuman identity.

Aliegender (link): when one's interpretation of gender/their gender(s) feels as though it's from a nonhuman perspective. One may or may not adopt a gender or attempt to fit into a gender but it feels like it's in an "alien trying out foreign species’ gender" sort of way.