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The main factors that induce acute psychosis in people who are prone to the corresponding mental illnesses (mostly schizophrenia) or were already diagnosed with them are (in descending significance):

  • any stress inducing circumstance (e.g. anxiety, work, emotional problems, sleep deprivation)
  • certain drugs and certain withdrawals
  • social deprivation, isolation or maladaption
  • irrational belief systems

However, no known method exists to induce psychosis in people who are not prone to develop the corresponding mental illnesses (i.e. the vast majority). Especially drug withdrawals and excessive sleep deprivation (weeks) can induce psychosis-alike mental states. But those are not the same and will quasi instantly subside once the cause is removed. In most people, even a ridiculous excess of triggers will not lead to psychosis but merely other symptoms (e.g. confusion, severe fatigue, apathy, avoidance).

Thus it could be concluded that psychosis can only manifests as a result of some unknown underlying defect in the human mind, but that it will not be triggered without that dysfunction present.

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