Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for mental states in which the components of rational thought and perception are severely impaired. Persons experiencing a psychosis may experience hallucinations, hold delusional beliefs (e.g. paranoid delusions), demonstrate personality changes and exhibit disorganized thinking (see thought disorder). This is often accompanied by lack of insight into the unusual or bizarre nature of such behavior, difficulties with social interaction and impairments in carrying out the activities of daily livi ...

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• Psychosis - Overview
• Psychosis - Psychotic experience
• Psychosis - Hallucinations
• Psychosis - Delusions and paranoia
• Psychosis - Thought disorder
• Psychosis - Lack of insight
• Psychosis - Medical understanding of psychosis
• Psychosis - Psychosis and brain function
• Psychosis - Cannabis and psychosis
• Psychosis - Non-psychiatric conditions and psychosis

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Psychosis, Psychosis - Overview, Psychosis - Psychotic experience, Psychosis - Hallucinations, Psychosis - Delusions and paranoia, Psychosis - Thought disorder, Psychosis - Lack of insight, Psychosis - Medical understanding of psychosis, Psychosis - Psychosis and brain function, Psychosis - Cannabis and psychosis, Psychosis - Non-psychiatric conditions and psychosis

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There are a number of possible causes for psychosis. Psychosis may be the result of an underlying mental illness such as bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) or schizophrenia. Psychosis may also be triggered or exacerbated by severe mental stress and high doses or chronic use of drugs such as amphetamines, LSD, PCP, cocaine or scopolamine. However, incidence of psychosis resulting from a single administration of any drug is rare, although cases have been reported in the medical literature suggesting a person's sensitivities to n ...

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Psychosis, Psychosis - Overview, Psychosis - Psychotic experience, Psychosis - Hallucinations, Psychosis - Delusions and paranoia, Psychosis - Thought disorder, Psychosis - Lack of insight, Psychosis - Medical understanding of psychosis, Psychosis - Psychosis and brain function, Psychosis - Cannabis and psychosis, Psychosis - Non-psychiatric conditions and psychosis

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ADHD psychosis (or ADD psychosis) is a distinctive form of psychosis, identified by Leopold Bellak and his colleagues, which co-occurs with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and tends to be treatable with typical ADHD medication such as stimulants (or some antidepressants), but not with conventional or atypical antipsychotic medication. Although this condition does not appear in DSM-IV, and it is not widely recognized, it has been detailed in several academic papers wh ...

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Amphetamine psychosis is a form of psychosis which can result from amphetamine or methamphetamine use. Typically it appears after large doses or chronic use, although in rare cases some people may become psychotic after relatively small doses. Other chemicals or drugs which similarly increase dopamine function (such as cocaine and L-DOPA) can produce similar psychotic states. Because of this, the term stimulant psychosis is sometimes used in preference. Amphetamine psychosis - Overview. Amphetamine p ...

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The following article by Dr. Turi explains the celestial influences characterizing differents types of psychological states. He briefly outlines the astrological reasons for Psychosis/Schizophrenia, Hysteria, Dissociative States, Sociopathic Personality, A.D.D., and Paranoid Personality.

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Bark Psychosis is a band from Waltham Forest, East London. Graham Sutton is the core of the group, supported by a dynamic roster of musicians.The line up for the seminal album Hex was : Graham Sutton, John Ling, Mark Simnett and Daniel Gish. Current members include Sutton, Colin Bradley, Lee Harris, and others. After several singles and EPs from 1988 to 1994, the band released their first album Hex in 1994. Simon Reynolds of The Wire coined the term post-rock to describe Hex for "using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timb ...

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• Bark Psychosis - Discography
• Bark Psychosis - Albums
• Bark Psychosis - EPs & Singles
• Bark Psychosis - Compilations

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Fear is the most common negative emotion. It is universal. It drains away our physical and mental energy. Fear is a great stumbling block to progress. The origin, type and intensity of fear varies from person to person. Nevertheless, fear haunts us all. It is a great shame that despite our inherent divinity, we continue to be held hostage by the psychosis of fear.

(See also: Fear, Faith and Belief, Spiritual Guidance, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Brief reactive psychosis is the psychiatric term for psychosis which is triggered by extreme stress. The condition usually spontaneously resolves itself within two weeks, and the main goal of treatment is to prevent the patient from harming themself or others. See also. nervous breakdown ...

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The term antipsychotic is applied to a group of drugs used to treat psychosis. Common conditions with which antipsychotics might be used include schizophrenia, mania and delusional disorder, although antipsychotics might be used to counter psychosis associated with a wide range of other diagnoses. Antipsychotics also have some effects as mood stabilizers, leading to their frequent use in treating mood disorder (particularly bipolar disorder) even when no signs of psychosis are present. Some antipsychotics (haloperidol, pimozide) are used to treat Tourette's Syndrome. These drugs are also referred to as n ...

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• Antipsychotic - Common antipsychotic drugs
• Antipsychotic - Drug action and effectiveness
• Antipsychotic - Side effects
• Antipsychotic - History and design
• Antipsychotic - External link

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The Cotard delusion or Cotard's syndrome is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that he is dead, does not exist, is putrefying or has lost his blood or internal organs. It is named after Jules Cotard (1840 - 1889) a French neurologist who first described the condition, which he called le délire de négation ("negation delirium"), in a lecture in Paris in 1880. In this lecture, Cotard described a patient with the moniker of Mademoiselle X, who denied the existence of God, the Devil, several parts of her body and denied she needed to eat. Later she believed she was ete ...

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Clinical lycanthropy is a psychiatric syndrome that involves a delusional belief that the affected person is, or has, transformed into an animal. It is named after the mythical condition of lycanthropy, a supernatural affliction in which people are said to physically shapeshift into werewolves. The word zoanthropy is also sometimes used for the delusion that one has turned into an animal in general and not specifically a wolf. Clinical lycanthropy - Symptoms. Affected individuals report a delusional ...

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• Clinical lycanthropy - Proposed mechanisms
• Clinical lycanthropy - Neurological factors
• Clinical lycanthropy - Cultural contributions

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A hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion, which is a misperception of an external stimulus. Hallucinations may occur in any sensory modality - visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, or mixed. Hallucination - Origins of the word. The word 'hallucinatory' has its roots in the Latin hallucinere or allucinere, meaning 'to wander in mind'. Altenatively in the Greek Including:

• Hallucination - Origins of the word
• Hallucination - Possible causes

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Erotomania is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that another person, usually of a higher social status, is in love with them. Erotomania is also called de Clerambault's syndrome, after the French psychiatrist Gaëtan Gatian de Clerambault (1872 - 1934) who published a comprehensive review paper on the subject (Les Psychoses Passionelles) in 1921. Erotomania - History. Early references to the condition can be found in the work of Hippocrates, Erasistratus, Pluta ...

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• Erotomania - Contemporary syndrome
• Erotomania - Erotomania in fiction

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Psychotherapy is a set of techniques intended to improve mental health, emotional or behavioral issues in individuals, who are often called "clients". These issues often make it hard for people to manage their lives and achieve their goals. Psychotherapy is aimed at these problems, and attempts to solve them via a number of different approaches and techniques; commonly psychotherapy involves a therapist and client(s), who discuss their issues in an effort to discover what they are and how they can manage them. Because sensitive topics ...

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• Psychotherapy - General description
• Psychotherapy - History
• Psychotherapy - Psychoanalysis
• Psychotherapy - Cognitive
• Psychotherapy - Humanistic
• Psychotherapy - Behavioral
• Psychotherapy - Brief counseling
• Psychotherapy - Schools and approaches
• Psychotherapy - Therapeutic Relationship
• Psychotherapy - Criticism
• Psychotherapy - Related lists

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D-lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly called acid, LSD, or LSD-25, is a powerful semisynthetic psychedelic drug. A typical dose of LSD during the 1960s was only 100 to 150 micrograms, a tiny amount roughly equal to one-tenth the weight of a grain of sand. Today a typical dose of LSD is as low as 25-50 micrograms. Threshold effects can be felt with as little as 20 micrograms. LSD causes a powerful intensification and alteration of senses, emotions, memories, and self-awareness for 6 to 14 hours. In ...

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• LSD - Origin
• LSD - Dosage
• LSD - Effects
• LSD - Physical
• LSD - Pharmacological
• LSD - Psychological
• LSD - Acute duration
• LSD - Physical dangers
• LSD - Flashbacks
• LSD - Psychosis
• LSD - Addiction potential
• LSD - Chemistry
• LSD - Forms of LSD
• LSD - Legal status
• LSD - LSD in the United States
• LSD - Notable people who have commented on the LSD experience
• LSD - Related topics
• LSD - Chemical
• LSD - People
• LSD - Other

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A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed false belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception. In psychiatry, the definition is necessarily more precise and implies that the belief is pathological (the result of an illness or illness process). Delusions typically occur in the context of neurological or mental illness, although they are not tied to any particular disease and have been found to occur in the context of many pathological states (both physical a ...

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• Delusion - Psychiatric definition
• Delusion - Primary and Secondary Delusions
• Delusion - Diagnostic issues

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Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness". Conrad originally described this phenomenon in relation to the distortion of reality present in psychosis, but it has become more widely used to describe this tendency in healthy individuals without necessarily implying ...

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Typical antipsychotics (sometimes referred to as conventional antipsychotics or conventional neuroleptics) are a class of antipsychotic drugs first developed in the 1950s and used to treat psychosis (in particular, schizophrenia), and are generally being replaced by atypical antipsychotic drugs. Typical antipsychotics may also be used for the treatment of acute mania, agitation, and other conditions. Traditional antipsychotics are broken down into low-potency and high-potency classifications. Fluphenazine and halo ...

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• Typical antipsychotic - Common side-effects
• Typical antipsychotic - Risks of serious side-effects
• Typical antipsychotic - Typical medications

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Emotional clearing (EMC) is a form of psychotherapy, developed in the 1980s. It spread mainly in Europe during the 1990s and has been championed by therapist John Ruskan. It has been given support by some therapists and clinicians who have highlighted its use in dealing with conditions such as psychosis, depression, and anxiety. However, as a technique it has yet to be rigorously tested in controlled trials and little peer-reviewed data has been put forward for its effectiveness, with much of its supporting evidence remaining anecdotal. Its advocates however, stress its benefits, and b ...

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