Psychotic Experiences
Dimension 402 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Psychotic Experiences measures the presence and intensity of unusual perceptions, implausible beliefs, disturbed reality testing, and experiences of thought interference or detachment from ordinary reality. It encompasses hallucination-like experiences, delusion-like interpretations, and related forms of perceptual and cognitive distortion.
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Minimal Psychotic Experiences
Expressions activating this band show little to no clear psychotic content, with material centered on general mood, self-criticism, emotional distance, or broad behavioral concerns. Any unusual thinking is vague, questioned, or not clearly organized into altered reality perception or fixed implausible belief.
Mild Psychotic Experiences
Expressions activating this band show emerging unusual experiences such as feeling detached from oneself, perceiving things as altered, suspecting thought interference, or reporting hallucination- or delusion-like phenomena in a tentative or mixed form. The content reflects disturbed reality appraisal but remains inconsistently elaborated.
Moderate Psychotic Experiences
Expressions activating this band describe clearly formed unusual perceptions or beliefs, including voices, special powers, referential messages, suspicious interpretations, and experiences of unreality or strangeness. The experiences are presented as salient and personally meaningful rather than fleeting anomalies.
Severe Psychotic Experiences
Expressions activating this band describe vivid, sustained, and highly implausible perceptual or belief-based experiences such as hearing voices, seeing things others cannot see, or feeling followed, spied on, abducted, or surrounded by strange forces. The content reflects pronounced loss of shared reality and strong conviction in bizarre or persecutory interpretations.
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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.
Moderate Illness Diagnosis: Illness diagnosis is clearly present at this level. Compared to the band below, illness diagnosis is more intense and concentrated but retains the same essential character. Expressions activating this band reflect illness diagnosis at this level of intensity.
Intense Illness Diagnosis: Illness diagnosis is clearly present at this level. Compared to the band below, illness diagnosis is more intense and concentrated but retains the same essential character. Expressions activating this band reflect illness diagnosis at this level of intensity.
Peak 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.