Psychotic Symptoms
Dimension 243 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Psychotic Symptoms measures the presence and salience of experiences involving hallucinations, delusional beliefs, thought interference, and altered reality testing. It encompasses unusual perceptual experiences as well as beliefs or sensations that outside forces are controlling thoughts or perception.
evidence final name · Illness Diagnosis
Minimal Psychotic Symptoms
Expressions activating this band mention broad mental or psychiatric concerns, odd or unsettling experiences, or unrelated health and life topics without clear evidence of sustained hallucinations, delusions, or thought control.
Mild Psychotic Symptoms
Expressions activating this band describe possible psychotic-like experiences in tentative or screening form, such as feeling detached from oneself, sensing special powers, or referring generally to psychiatric problems and antipsychotic treatment.
Moderate Psychotic Symptoms
Expressions activating this band describe clear psychotic phenomena, including hallucinations, psychosis, unreality, and beliefs that thoughts are being interfered with or controlled by an outside force.
High Psychotic Symptoms
Expressions activating this band center on active hallucinatory experience, especially hearing voices, echoes, or related perceptual disturbances, often alongside delusional content.
Severe Psychotic Symptoms
Expressions activating this band describe vivid, explicit auditory hallucinations in which voices or sounds are heard clearly, speak in words or sentences, and become a prominent focus of experience.
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Minimal Illness Diagnosis: Illness diagnosis is present at a low level. Expressions activating this band reflect early or diffuse illness diagnosis.
Emerging Illness Diagnosis: Illness diagnosis is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where illness diagnosis was characterized by a general or mixed form, the proxy here has shifted in character. Expressions activating this band reflect illness diagnosis at this level of intensity.
Elevated Illness Diagnosis: Illness diagnosis is experienced here at a level consistent with formal clinical assessment and disorder-relevant measurement. Unlike the band below, where illness diagnosis was characterized by a general form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band likely reflect illness diagnosis at a clinical or disorder-relevant level.
Severe Illness Diagnosis: Illness diagnosis is clearly present at this level. Unlike the band below, where illness diagnosis was characterized by the clinical form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band reflect illness diagnosis at this level of intensity.