A state in which a person's capacity for recognizing reality and communicating and interacting with others is impaired, thereby greatly diminishing the person's ability to deal with life's demands May be associated with several mental disorders, and includes thought disorders (delusion), sensory perceptual alterations (hallucinations, illusions), and extremes of affect
= A serious clinical condition the hallmark of which is a loss of contact with reality The loss of reality contact can be due to delusions or hallucinations often marked with severe incoherence and significant perceptual distortions One such psychotic disorder is schizophrenia
A severe emotional illness in which there is a departure from normal patterns of thinking, feeling and actions Commonly characterized by loss of contact with reality, distortion of perception, regressive behavior, and attitudes, diminished control of elementary impulses and desires, and abnormal mental content including delusions and hallucinations
Psychosis refers to a state of being completely out of touch with reality Psychosis is generally a state (a temporary condition) rather than a trait (permanent condition) Many medications (called neuroleptics or anti-psychotics) are available to help psychotic persons regain their comprehension of reality Psychosis is frequently associated with the family of disorders known as Schizophrenia
A general term for a number of major psychiatric illnesses, including schizophrenia, in which a person incorrectly evaluates the accuracy of his or her perceptions and thoughts and makes incorrect conclusions about reality
A state that causes very serious disorganized thinking and total loss of reality This state may cause auditory and/or visual hallucinations, delusions, and/or paranoia and may cause a consumer to become violent
Psychosis is mental illness of a severe kind which can make people lose contact with reality. He may have some kind of neurosis or psychosis later in life. psychoses a serious mental illness that can change your character and make you unable to behave in a normal way psychotic. Serious mental derangement characterized by defective or lost contact with reality. The primary psychoses are schizophrenia and the delusional disorders (e.g., megalomania), but extreme cases of depression and bipolar disorder, substance-induced delirium, and certain varieties of dementia are also understood to share important features with the psychoses. The major symptoms, aside from delusions and hallucinations, are disorganized speech and behaviour and, often, mood disturbances. Treatment usually consists of medication and counseling in an institutional setting. Compare neurosis
a general term referring to any significant mental disorder characterized by a loss of contact with reality and an inability to meet the ordinary demands of life