• impaired source monitoring
• inner speaking (discernment) of the 'internal' monologue attributed to outside-of-self (external source)
• hallucinatory
• sleep deprivation
• threat, trauma, and memory intrusions (adaptive mechanism)
• distinguish cues and markers indicative of psychosis as a symptom (temporary psychosis), where certain constraints and stress induce psychosis, versus frequent and longer lasting hallucinations

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Impaired emotions and thoughts that has caused the victim to become disconnected from facts and thus, disconnected reality itself.

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