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Total Insomnia Psychosis Hallucinations and Delusions

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Wow, sorry for this horrible experience. Polysomnography is like any outpatient procedure (yes, it is outpatient in all but extreme cases where an ER doctor might ask for a favour from a local lab to get you in as a special and urgent case, but 99.99% are by appointment and by referral, usually). If you have no unusual sleep behaviour, they can't do much. So, no unusual and sustained limb movement, no REM sleep patterns at all, no deep sleep...that kind of thing, they might have some treatments. But if you are awake, there's not much they can assess.
I take it you have had a brain scan to check for tumors or ischemia/stroke? Blood chemistry is normal? Any childhood trauma that might be suppressed but at play? No general anxiety disorder diagnosed? (BTW, the DSM is a political product in that, every three/four years ,the big wigs in psychiatry get together and there's a lot of lobbying behind the scenes to get the latest darling 'syndrome' or 'disorder' included, something someone has gotten a PhD writing and that many others like because it seems to accurately model or to explain a certain behaviour. The DSM sounds like a modern and current diagnostic tool, and in some ways it is, but it's also a product of popularity contests in the medical establishment).
I'm sorry I can't offer more. Hopefully someone will read your post and have some similar background and offer you some suggestions. I wish you the best of luck.

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gloaming, your post is spot on in assessing DSM being a political product, latest darling "syndrome" or "disorder" and the psychology/psychiatric community as a whole.

After 60+ years of dealing with them, I have found exactly two psychiatrists that truly gave a damn. One left practicing at the VA due to VA mismanagement and the other is at the VA and fixed my insomnia, anxiety and depression after 65 years of it.

He got the drugs right and the diagnosis - finally. I think the right drugs, the right doctor and support staff, and the right amount of time and space is the "cure" for environmentally caused psychiatric disorders.

Few people know the difference between a personality disorder, an organic brain disorder and a psychiatric disorder, a personality disorder or a mental health condition and a behavior problem. This has create so much stigma, anyone with any brain issue is stigmatized.