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Psychosis is a condition of the mind or psyche that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real. Symptoms may include delusions...

symptoms of both schizophrenia (psychosis) and a mood disorder: either bipolar disorder or depression. The main criterion is the presence of psychotic...

Stimulant psychosis is a mental disorder characterized by psychotic symptoms (such as hallucinations, paranoid ideation, delusions, disorganized thinking...

Substance-induced psychosis (commonly known as toxic psychosis or drug-induced psychosis) is a form of psychosis that is attributed to substance intoxication...

Postpartum psychosis (PPP), also known as puerperal psychosis or peripartum psychosis, involves the abrupt onset of psychotic symptoms shortly following...

condition (such as a brain tumor). There are general medical causes of brief psychosis that should be considered during evaluation, including postnatal...

Caffeine-induced psychosis is a relatively rare phenomenon that can occur in otherwise healthy people. Overuse of caffeine may also worsen psychosis in people...

among persons with the disorder. To make a diagnosis of schizophrenia other possible causes of psychosis need to be excluded.: 858  Psychotic symptoms lasting...

such as insatiable greed and destruction of the environment are also thought to be symptoms of wendigo psychosis. The word appears in many Native American...

as an early sign preceding the onset of delirium. Psychotic and other erroneous beliefs: Symptoms of psychosis include suspiciousness, overvalued ideation...

thorough history and exam by a child psychiatrist, exclusion of medical causes of psychosis (often by extensive testing), observations by caregivers and...

known as "foreclusion"; French: forclusion) is a specific psychical cause for psychosis, according to French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. According to Élisabeth...

self-inflicted enucleation (removal) of the eye. It is considered a form of self-mutilation and is normally caused by psychosis, paranoid delusions or drugs....

Mystical psychosis is a term coined by Arthur J. Deikman in the early 1970s to characterize first-person accounts of psychotic experiences that are strikingly...

"increases the risk of psychosis in people with certain genetic or environmental vulnerabilities", but does not cause psychosis. Important predisposing...

of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood that each last from days to weeks. If the elevated mood is severe or associated with psychosis,...

Tardive psychosis is a term for a hypothetical form of psychosis caused by long-term use of neuroleptics. It was first proposed in 1978 but was questioned...

detoxification from amphetamine, cocaine, opioid, and alcohol use, causing prolonged psychosis, anxiety or depression. A protracted withdrawal syndrome can...

Bark Psychosis were an English post-rock band/musical project from east London formed in 1986. They were one of the bands that Simon Reynolds cited when...

Look up psychosis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state characterized by loss of contact with...