Seeking Recommendation Books and articles about how to differ occult practices from mental illnesses

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Hello. I'm a heavily skeptical and heavily experienced spiritual person at the same time. So I'm often wondering and second guessing what's real/what's my imagination and what actually works in my practice. Although I myself do not have any sort of hallucinatory disorder, I've always wondered about the thin line between the occult and mental health issues because of new age spirituality misinformation in social media and past bad experiences with people who were not ready for the occult.

Here are some examples for my personal doubts: how to differ gnosis, premonitions and assumption methods from psychosis; how to differ channeling/possession from dissociative identity disorders and also visual/auditory practices from schizophrenia. I had a few former friends who used to be spiritual but either ended up in the hospital due to psychotic episodes or eventually were diagnosed with schizophrenia and other personality disorders with hallucinatory symptoms. And that scared the hell of out me and pushed me to extensively research about that matter.

So do any of you have occult books or general psychological/psychiatric researches recomendations that dive into the differences between solid spiritual/magical/witchcraft practices and mental health issues/disorders? Thanks!