: what is psychosis?
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A person suffering from psychosis cannot distinguish what’s real and not real. They usually have hallucinations and/or delusions that they are convinced are real. People who are schizophrenic are prone to bouts of psychosis, there’s also drug induced psychosis, and many other mental disorders that cause it.
To simplify it, Imagine you wake up from your dream and do not get that soothing feeling that it was a dream. You believe it is actually real, and your dream story keeps going and real life as well and you cannot distinguish which is which, hell sometimes you don’t even know there is something wrong. This comes in varying degrees.
Psychosis is where you see or hear things that are not there (hallucinations) or believe things that are not true (delusions).
The main symptoms of psychosis are hallucinations and delusions.
Common treatments for psychosis include antipsychotic medicines, talking therapies and social support.
Common causes of psychosis include mental health conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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when you cant distinguish whats real and what isnt.
I’ve experienced it and its horrifying.
Psychosis is the condition of the mind or metal state. From the etymology (the study of words) of psycho- and -sis.
Edit:to add and avoid repeating myself: Psychopathy is a deranged mental state. Psychotic is being affected by psychosis. A psychopath is someone incapable of empathy.
I’ve worked as a psychiatric nurse for a long time. The best explanation I developed through my experience is that a psychotic brain has a sensory overload and has difficulty interpreting all the input. This can involve all kinds of sensory inputs from sight, to smell, to hearing and tasting. This is also why psychosis comes in so many forms, from hearing, tasting to seeing things that don’t match reality.
I’ve worked as a psychiatric nurse for a long time. The best explanation I developed through my experience is that a psychotic brain has a sensory overload and has difficulty interpreting all the input. This can involve all kinds of sensory inputs from sight, to smell, to hearing and tasting. This is also why psychosis comes in so many forms, from hearing, tasting to seeing things that don’t match reality.
Hello! Person who has had psychosis in the past here
Psychosis is a period of time where the person experiencing it goes through an episode of not being able to perceive actual reality
This goes with positive symptoms which are the hallucinations, delusions and illogical or racing thoughts- these are all focused within the mind
The negative symptoms are shown in physical behavior, such as lack of pleasure, speaking with no sense and sometimes lack of movement.
There’s more symptoms in these categories but these are the fundamentals, for a person to be considered schizophrenic they need to have an ongoing psychosis episode lasting a larger period of time
I am not sure how much, I think it depends on what manual de psychiatrist studied on, due to the fact that I’ve had multiple psychosis episodes in a short period of time, but of short duration, and got diagnosed with /transitory psychosis/ which is just a way of telling I went through a phase of psychosis
If you or anyone reading has questions about taking antipsychotics as well, or just about psychosis, feel free to ask!
It’s a period of time in which a person can’t share the agreed upon reality that others occupy. Where there is a disorder which puts an otherwise functional brain into confusion.
It is a state of being that can come from both psychological conditions and certain bodily conditions. Which is often associated with certain illnesses. The nature of a psychosis can vary a lot, meaning that it can express itself in many ways.
It is a very involountary experience and a common reaction to having a psychosis is fear, because it is very overwhelming and it is experienced as a helpless situation where the sufferer can’t escape or predict what happens.
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