1. Mentally Healthy Neurotypical:
Thought processes are clear and coherent. Emotional responses are proportional. Day-to-day functioning is stable, with minimal stress or anxiety beyond normal challenges.
2. Mild Stress or Slight Anxiety:
Mostly balanced but occasionally experiencing mild worry, difficulty concentrating, or short periods of feeling overwhelmed. Still able to cope and adapt effectively.
3. Noticeable Anxiety and Mood Swings:
Frequent bouts of tension, irritability, or moodiness. Minor difficulties sleeping or staying calm under stress. Challenges emerge in maintaining focus and emotional equilibrium, but insight remains strong.
4. Mild to Moderate Distress:
Persistent anxious or depressive symptoms that start affecting routine tasks. May have trouble enjoying activities, feel more fatigued, or experience minor irrational thoughts, but self-awareness is generally intact.
5. Strong Emotional Instability:
Frequent mood fluctuations, worry, or sadness that noticeably disrupt daily life. Struggle with maintaining relationships or responsibilities. Intrusive thoughts or mild paranoia may arise, though still reality-based.
6. Moderate Disorganization or Cognitive Distortions:
Thinking becomes less linear; difficulty following complex tasks or maintaining coherent conversation at times. Periods of heightened irrational fears, stronger paranoia, or mild hallucinations may occur under stress, though intermittent and recognized as unusual.
7. Significant Psychotic Features Under Stress:
Noticeable episodes of false beliefs (delusions) or misinterpretations of reality. Intermittent auditory or visual hallucinations. Functioning is impaired, and though episodes may come and go, the sense of what is real can become uncertain.
8. Persistent, Structured Delusions or Hallucinations:
More continuous presence of delusions that are deeply held or recurring hallucinations that feel very real. Day-to-day life is markedly disrupted. Insight into having a mental health issue is severely limited, and rational thought is consistently compromised.
9. Severe Psychotic State with Disorganized Behavior:
Constant and pronounced hallucinations, delusions that deeply shape perception, and profoundly disorganized thinking and speech. Basic self-care becomes difficult. The person may appear very agitated, fearful, or disconnected from the surrounding world.
10. Complete Disassociation and Uncontrolled Psychosis:
Reality testing is almost nonexistent. Hallucinations and delusions dominate. You may be incoherent, erratic, and unable to perform basic functions without intervention. Behavior can be unpredictable and chaotic, and rational reasoning is virtually absent, requiring immediate, intensive medical care and support.
In this state you could go out of control!
Thought processes are clear and coherent. Emotional responses are proportional. Day-to-day functioning is stable, with minimal stress or anxiety beyond normal challenges.
2. Mild Stress or Slight Anxiety:
Mostly balanced but occasionally experiencing mild worry, difficulty concentrating, or short periods of feeling overwhelmed. Still able to cope and adapt effectively.
3. Noticeable Anxiety and Mood Swings:
Frequent bouts of tension, irritability, or moodiness. Minor difficulties sleeping or staying calm under stress. Challenges emerge in maintaining focus and emotional equilibrium, but insight remains strong.
4. Mild to Moderate Distress:
Persistent anxious or depressive symptoms that start affecting routine tasks. May have trouble enjoying activities, feel more fatigued, or experience minor irrational thoughts, but self-awareness is generally intact.
5. Strong Emotional Instability:
Frequent mood fluctuations, worry, or sadness that noticeably disrupt daily life. Struggle with maintaining relationships or responsibilities. Intrusive thoughts or mild paranoia may arise, though still reality-based.
6. Moderate Disorganization or Cognitive Distortions:
Thinking becomes less linear; difficulty following complex tasks or maintaining coherent conversation at times. Periods of heightened irrational fears, stronger paranoia, or mild hallucinations may occur under stress, though intermittent and recognized as unusual.
7. Significant Psychotic Features Under Stress:
Noticeable episodes of false beliefs (delusions) or misinterpretations of reality. Intermittent auditory or visual hallucinations. Functioning is impaired, and though episodes may come and go, the sense of what is real can become uncertain.
8. Persistent, Structured Delusions or Hallucinations:
More continuous presence of delusions that are deeply held or recurring hallucinations that feel very real. Day-to-day life is markedly disrupted. Insight into having a mental health issue is severely limited, and rational thought is consistently compromised.
9. Severe Psychotic State with Disorganized Behavior:
Constant and pronounced hallucinations, delusions that deeply shape perception, and profoundly disorganized thinking and speech. Basic self-care becomes difficult. The person may appear very agitated, fearful, or disconnected from the surrounding world.
10. Complete Disassociation and Uncontrolled Psychosis:
Reality testing is almost nonexistent. Hallucinations and delusions dominate. You may be incoherent, erratic, and unable to perform basic functions without intervention. Behavior can be unpredictable and chaotic, and rational reasoning is virtually absent, requiring immediate, intensive medical care and support.
In this state you could go out of control!
