Psychotic Disorders
Treatment for psychotic disorders?
Psychotic disorders are treated with antipsychotic medication.
Psychosis as a symptom?
Psychosis can be a symptom and/or sign in disorders other than psychotic disorders such as Bipolar disorder, Major depressive disorder and occasionally individuals with severe PTSD or Borderline personality disorder have been known to experience psychotic symptoms
Types of Psychotic disorders?
- Schizophrenia
- Schizoaffective disorder
- Psychotic disorder caused by a general medical condition
- Substance induced psychotic disorder
- Delusional disorder
How Thriving Minds Can help?
Thriving minds can assess, evaluate, diagnose and treat any mental health symptoms you may experience. We can help you put the pieces together so you understand yourself and your symptoms are better.
What is a psychotic disorder?
A psychotic disorder is considered a thought disorder because it causes abnormal thinking and perceptions are called psychotic disorders. People with psychotic disorders lose touch with reality. The main two symptoms are believing things that are not actually true which are delusions (most commonly paranoid delusions) as well as might involve seeing or hearing things that other people cannot see or hear (hallucinations).
What are the symptoms of a psychotic disorder?
There are behavioral effects of psychotic disorders which include speaking incoherently, erratic or odd behaviors, agitation, and restlessness.
The positive symptoms of psychotic disorders are as below:
- Hallucinations and delusions
- Specific examples include:
- Thought insertion
- Thought extraction
- Thought broadcasting
Negative symptoms include:
- A seeming lack of interest in the world
- Not wanting to interact with other people (social withdrawal aka asociality)
- An inability to feel or express pleasure or be interested in activities that were previously pleasurable (anhedonia)
- An inability to act spontaneously
- Decrease sense of purpose
- Lack of motivation (avolition)
- Not talking much (alogia)
- Blunted affect
Other signs include
- A drop in grades or job performance
- Trouble thinking clearly or concentrating
- Suspiciousness or unease around others.
- Lack of self-care or hygiene.
- Spending more time alone than usual.
- Stronger emotions than situations call for.
- No emotions at all
What causes psychosis?
A combination of genetics along with social stressors typically are known to cause psychosis, however certain substances/illicit or licit drugs, medications and/or medical conditions can also cause psychosis. Psychosis can be present as part of the symptom constellation in several different mental illnesses such as Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective disorder, Major depressive disorder or Bipolar disorder or. However, a person may experience psychosis and never be diagnosed with schizophrenia or any other mental disorder due to the fact that psychosis can also be triggered by a number of things, such as a physical illness or injury, abuse or trauma, recreational drugs, alcohol and smoking, prescribed medication as mentioned above as well.