Depressive symptoms are highly prevalent in psychotic populations and result in significant functional impairment. Limited knowledge of whether depressive symptoms are invariant across stages of illness curtails our ability to understand how these relate to illness progression. Clarifying the latent structure...
Programs Treatment Team Admissions Specialized Services Understanding Mental Illness Careers Contact Us What is schizoaffective disorder? Some people display features of both schizophrenia and an affective disorder such as bipolar disorder or major depression with psychotic features. In depression, the perso...
Psychotic disordersare a group of serious mental illnesses that all have signs of psychosis. Psychosis is a cluster of symptoms, not an illness. It's sometimes described as "losing touch with reality." What's likely happening during psychosis is that the person has disruptions in their thoughts...
There are a number of medical risk factors for psychotic disorders. Steroid-induced psychosis is one example of the risk of certain medications causing this illness. Women who have recently delivered a baby (in the postpartum state) are at risk for a number ofmental healthproblems, including po...
Sometimes you can lose touch with reality even when you don’t have a primary psychotic illness such as schizophrenia orbipolar disorder.When this happens, it's called secondary psychosis. These episodes stem from something else, like drug use or a medical condition. Whatever the reason, they ...
For every type and duration of the illness, the sufferer experiences significant problems with his or her functioning at school, at work, socially, or otherwise in their community, may need hospitalization, or may have psychotic symptoms (for example, delusions or hallucinations). ...
The main classes of mental illness includes: Neurodevelopmental like ADHD or autism. Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. Detachment from reality. Bipolar and related disorders that have episodes of mania and depression. Depressive disorders like premenstrual dysphoric and major depressive di...
This brief review of the relationship of thyrotoxicosis to psychotic behavior stresses the importance of combined psychiatric and medical management of patients with medically related psychotic illnesses. A detailed case report is presented, and the role of the psychiatrist in recognizing and altering stre...
Psychotic depression is a subtype of major depression that occurs when a severe depressive illness includes some form of psychosis. The psychosis could be hallucinations (such as hearing a voice telling you that you are no good or worthless), delusions (such as, intense feelings of worthlessness,...
Delusional disorder, previously calledparanoiddisorder, is a type of seriousmental illnesscalled a psychotic disorder. People who have it can’t tell what’s real from what is imagined. Delusions are the main symptom of delusional disorder. They’re unshakable beliefs in something that isn’t true...