Anxiety Psychosis
What is anxiety psychosis, and can depressed people be psychotic?
A person with anxiety psychosis loses contact with reality. He or she experiences delusions and/or hallucinations and lives mostly in a fantasy world. Depressed people can, unfortunately, experience psychosis if the depression becomes severe. Outward behavior reflects this condition, and the person may act very strange. Psychosis in chronic anxiety can be eliminated with the use of anti-psychotic medications and psychotherapy.
How many people suffer from psychosis?
In North America, anxiety psychosis disables as many people every year as heart disease and cancer combined.
How many Americans are hospitalized every year for psychosis?
About half the hospital patients with mental illness today occupy beds in the United States with mental illnesses. Almost all suffer from psychosis.
Interestingly, quite a few people define psychosis quite differently and tend to share vastly different symptoms and definitions. Some of the experiences are unshared, even not fitting the clinical definition of anxiety psychosis. In example, there are many people who have experienced some form of hallucinations in relation to religious, cultist or sects movements. Such experiences both can be classified as psychosis, and at the same time may not. So, it’s been agreed that psychosis is a completely extreme condition, a state when a person is beyond any kinds of societal norms and accepted behavior/experiences. Therefore, when a person is having some kind of extreme state of consciousness, he may not exactly be suffering from psychosis, even though he’s behaving outside societal norms, hemay simply be having an unusually extreme experience. For more information, search for schizotypy.
Most people refer to psychopathic or sociopathic behavior as if it was psychotic. It is mostly incorrect, because anxiety psychosis is not necessarily a tendency to engage in violent behavior, rather something that stems from within a person and is mostly characterized by internal signs.
