eli5: Difference between schizophrenia and psychosis?
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In my psych class we were told that schizophrenia was a diagnosis to describe a number of symptoms – whereas psychosis was a term that describes how the patient experiences those symptoms.
Essentially you can have neurosis (where the patient is aware of how the symptoms are affecting them) and psychosis (where the symptoms are so all encompassing, that the sufferer does is not able to identify them as symptoms of an illness)
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