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Symptoms of Psychosis
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| Cognitive Symptoms |
Cognitive Symptoms are often seen as a drop in grades or loss of ability to complete tasks, and may be due to greater distractibility, worsening disorganization, difficulty in understanding what others are saying or trouble expressing self clearly.
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| Social Symptoms |
Social Symptoms often involve withdrawal from friends and family, lack of interest in being with other people, lack of motivation regarding school, work, hobbies, loss of ability to have facial emotions, and loss of interest in keeping good hygiene.
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| Hallucinations and Delusions |
Hallucinations are a sensory experience of something that does not exist. Most often involves hearing or seeing something that is not there, but may involve the senses of taste, smell and touch as well. Command auditory hallucinations are voices telling you to do something or stop doing something, and may tell you to hurt yourself.
Delusions are false beliefs that are firmly held even though there is no proof. Paranoid delusions are the belief that someone or something is “out to get” you. Delusions of Reference are the belief that things in the environment are directly related to you even though they are not ie, getting a message from the TV just for you, strangers signaling to each other about you. Grandiose Delusions are the belief that you are very special or have special powers ie that you are a famous rock star.
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| Mood Symptoms |
Mood Symptoms may include depression, irritability, and aggression, but can also manifest as lack of any strong emotions at all. These mood symptoms are a core feature of psychotic illness for many people, occurring early in the course of illness, often before the more pronounced hallucinations or delusions.
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| Suicide Symptoms |
Suicidal thoughts may occur in the context of a psychotic illness as one struggles to make sense of one’s changing experience of the world. They may also occur in relation to a hallucination (voice telling you to kill yourself), a delusion (sacrificing self will save the world), or co-occurring depression.
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