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When a person believes bizzare things, which is irrational for most normal people, when a person sees or hears things, which is not experienced by most normal people, when a person behaves abnormally the person is considered to be having psychosis.
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What are antipsychotic drugs used to treat?
Anti-psychotic drugs control the symptoms of psychosis, and in many cases are effective in controlling the symptoms of other disorders that may lead to psychosis
What are the signs and symptoms of organic psychosis?
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What are the symptoms of Wendigo psychosis?
Wendigo or Windigo psychosis is an often disputed mental disorder in which a person has a craving for human flesh. Symptoms include depression, distaste for regular diet, nausea, and vomiting.
What is organic psychosis?
Organic psychosis occurs where a person experiences psychotic symptoms in the context of an organic (physical) health problem. Symptoms of psychosis include hallucinations, delusions, formal thought disorder, anhedonia, apathy, avolition, amotivation. Organic problems that can cause psychosis are varied, and include brain tumours, viral infections, traumatic brain injury, and genetic disorders. Psychotic symptoms can also arise in the course of dementia, and also may be present when a person is experiencing delirium.
What is Adderall psychosis?
Adderall is made up of 4 amphetamine salts. These are in a class of drugs known as stimulants. Excessive use of stimulants can cause sleep deprivation and a lot of negative psychological symptoms (psychosis). Whether this psychosis is due to the lack of sleep, the drug or the combination isn't know, as sleep deprivation alone can cause psychosis. Symptoms can include paranoia, auditory hallucination, tremors, panic attacks, etc....
How do you prevent psychosis?
Psychosis is a fundamental derangement of the mind for which there is generally no cure. In some cases psychosis develops from outside conditions and the conditions that caused the psychosis can be addressed and in those cases the condition may be cured. Some victims can control their symptoms with a cocktail of several medications which can inhibit some of the symptoms but also can cause extremely unpleasant side effects.
What are the symptoms of lupus cerebritis?
Symptoms of lupus cerebritis may include headaches, seizures , stroke , psychosis, dementia , peripheral neuropathy , cerebellar ataxia
What is another name for psychosis?
Psychosis is a term describing mental health symptoms including hallucinations, delusions, formal thought disorder, and negative symptoms. Psychosis is a broad term, which encompasses a range of diagnoses. These include schizophrenia, substance-induced psychosis, brief reactive psychosis, post partum psychosis, schizophreniform disorder, schizoaffective disorder to name just a few. These disorders have the presence of psychotic symptoms as a common feature. However, the specific diagnoses are differentiated according to a variety of features such as lengbth of illness, association with mood, association with drug use or stress, etc. So, there is not another name for 'psychosis', but there are a range of terms that people use to more specifically name types of psychotic illness. Sometimes people use these terms interchangeably with psychosis - even though this is strictly not correct. (As an analogy, consider the term cancer - like psychosis, cancer is an umbrella term covering a range of more specific types such as breast cancer, bone cancer, ovarian cancer etc).
Difficulties do people with psychosis have?
People with psychosis may experience symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking, and difficulty understanding reality. They may struggle with social interactions, maintaining relationships, and completing daily tasks. Additionally, psychosis can impact their ability to express emotions and make sound judgments.
Is depression a psychotic or non-psychotic illness?
Usually it is non-psychotic, but severe depression can cause psychotic symptoms. Psychotic means having hallucinations and/or paranoia.
What are the symptoms of Paranoid Psychosis and can the person be a danger?
The person would be expressing ideas that someone is trying to harm them, plotting against them or talking about them or something similar. Their feelings and thoughts will be very real to them but will be far from reality as is psychosis. The person can present as a danger as they may feel they have to defend themselves as their perecived ideas are real to them.
What are the symptoms of Spice addiction?
Spice was first marketed as a legal alternative to marijuana. Some examples of intoxication include psychosis, hallucinations, and odd behaviors.
