Psychosis
Psychosis is a general term which refers to any significant mental disorder that has a physical or emotional source. It is a severe disturbance in which a person is unable to distinguish reality from fantasy.
What is going on in the body?
Psychosis is considered a mental and behavioral disorder. It results in a significant distortion of a person's mental capacity. The person has problems recognizes reality and relating to other people. These distortions are serious enough to interfere with the
person's ability to deal with the normal demands of everyday life.
What are the causes and risks of the condition?
Psychotic
illnesses can have a physical or emotional cause. The causes include such
disorders as:
Wernicke-Korsakoff's syndrome, a personality disorder that causes a wide variety of symptoms
senile dementia or Alzheimer's
disease, which involve memory loss and other changes
drug- or alcohol-induced psychosis
manic depression
severe affective, or mood, disorders
schizophrenia
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