eli5: Difference between schizophrenia and psychosis?
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schizophrenia is a diagnosis made out of both positive and negative symptoms. Positive symptoms add something to a person like hearing voices or seeing things or having delusions ect. The negative are stuff that take away from a person such as low mood, withdrawal. Of course they could be a whole host of positive and negative symptoms outside the ones i have listed. The diognois itself requires both the positive and negative symptoms for a length of time without a trigger such as drugs.
However psychosis is a bit different its more episodic like could be due to sleep deprivation, use of drugs and only includes the positive symptoms such as the hallucinations and delusions.
I kept it brief for the sake of this subreddit
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