Hey I worry about all the same things and have DP as well. To reassure you, if you experience psychosis or shitzophrenia you just have the symptoms. You pretty much don't have the insight to sit around wonder if what you are feeling might be a precursor to something else, that is anxiety.
the fact that you have the insight to think and know that certain thoughts or feelings is illogical means you are sane and just have DP/DR. With DP/ DR you are aware that you don't feel like yourself which is probably why you are on a site trying to find some answers. If you were experiencing psychosis or schitzoprenia you really wouldn't be aware that how you are behaving is odd at all. In fact, the person is usually not aware. It is usually friends and family members that notice and send the person to be evaluated.
The reason I know this is because I have a friend of a friend that has schizophrenia. He was the college roommate of my friend, which is how I knew him. I was asking my friend how he found out that he had it and the reason was because he believed his father was trying to kill him. He didn't sit around worrying about hallucinating or having delusions, he believed with every ounce of his being that his father was trying to kill him and acted accordingly. It was his family and friends that noted the odd behavior and sent him into be evaluated, which is when they found out.(By the way, he is doing ok. He has a team of doctors that have him on a good medication and from what I know he is still able to go about his life normally)
I'm like you, where if I hear something, I have to validate that I'm not hearing things...if I see a shadow or something, I'm hyper-sensitive to it and thinking "what if this is a precursor to a hallucination".
The fact that we experience worry and dread over a fear of these things happening is an anxiety problem hence the DP/DR.
I know it's not super reassuring but I hope it's somewhat helpful.
the fact that you have the insight to think and know that certain thoughts or feelings is illogical means you are sane and just have DP/DR. With DP/ DR you are aware that you don't feel like yourself which is probably why you are on a site trying to find some answers. If you were experiencing psychosis or schitzoprenia you really wouldn't be aware that how you are behaving is odd at all. In fact, the person is usually not aware. It is usually friends and family members that notice and send the person to be evaluated.
The reason I know this is because I have a friend of a friend that has schizophrenia. He was the college roommate of my friend, which is how I knew him. I was asking my friend how he found out that he had it and the reason was because he believed his father was trying to kill him. He didn't sit around worrying about hallucinating or having delusions, he believed with every ounce of his being that his father was trying to kill him and acted accordingly. It was his family and friends that noted the odd behavior and sent him into be evaluated, which is when they found out.(By the way, he is doing ok. He has a team of doctors that have him on a good medication and from what I know he is still able to go about his life normally)
I'm like you, where if I hear something, I have to validate that I'm not hearing things...if I see a shadow or something, I'm hyper-sensitive to it and thinking "what if this is a precursor to a hallucination".
The fact that we experience worry and dread over a fear of these things happening is an anxiety problem hence the DP/DR.
I know it's not super reassuring but I hope it's somewhat helpful.