<story><title>Perceptual distortions in late-teens predict psychotic symptoms in mid-life</title><url>https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3179/early-signs-perceptual-distortions-in-late-teens-predict-psychotic-symptoms-in-mid-life</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colordrops</author><text>I have always had these distortions throughout my life. I sometimes feel like high-functioning psychotic. I recall the story of that researcher James Fallon that found out he was a psychopath when he scanned his own brain. Everything feels intellectualized rather than a concrete physical reality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meowface</author><text>Just because there&amp;#x27;s a correlation doesn&amp;#x27;t mean distortions inherently imply psychosis. It&amp;#x27;s difficult to know your experience just from your brief comment, but it&amp;#x27;s possible that you may have something like depersonalization-derealization disorder, without any psychosis.&lt;p&gt;Psychosis generally involves delusions and hallucinations. For example: hearing things that aren&amp;#x27;t real, believing governments or other powerful entities are specifically targeting and watching you (much more so than just being caught up in the standard dragnet surveillance), thinking you&amp;#x27;re a divine being or on a divinely-mandated mission, frequently thinking people you see IRL are stalking and following you, thinking some external entity or machine is inserting invasive thoughts into your head via photons.&lt;p&gt;And as the other commenter said, psychopathy and psychosis are unrelated, and as far as I know not even correlated. But I understand you&amp;#x27;re probably just referencing that story as an example and weren&amp;#x27;t suggesting a connection. (The context, for anyone unaware: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&amp;#x2F;science-nature&amp;#x2F;the-neuroscientist-who-discovered-he-was-a-psychopath-180947814&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.smithsonianmag.com&amp;#x2F;science-nature&amp;#x2F;the-neuroscien...&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>
<story><title>Perceptual distortions in late-teens predict psychotic symptoms in mid-life</title><url>https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3179/early-signs-perceptual-distortions-in-late-teens-predict-psychotic-symptoms-in-mid-life</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>colordrops</author><text>I have always had these distortions throughout my life. I sometimes feel like high-functioning psychotic. I recall the story of that researcher James Fallon that found out he was a psychopath when he scanned his own brain. Everything feels intellectualized rather than a concrete physical reality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>heavyset_go</author><text>One feature of psychosis and mental illness, in general, is a lack of insight into one&amp;#x27;s own condition, or the lack of a complete picture into how symptoms impact one&amp;#x27;s thoughts and behaviors.&lt;p&gt;In psychosis, this very pronounced because many of those who experience psychosis don&amp;#x27;t know they&amp;#x27;re experiencing delusions or hallucinations. It&amp;#x27;s all very real to them.&lt;p&gt;The fact that you have an awareness of your distortions seems to suggest that you&amp;#x27;re not psychotic.</text></comment>