Psychosis affects a person's mind and disrupts their thoughts and perceptions, making it difficult for them to recognize what is real and what is not.
Psychosis includes two major experiences:
- Hallucinations - seeing, hearing or feeling things that others do not
- Delusions - false beliefs
A person in a psychotic episode may also experience
- incoherent or nonsense speech
- behavior that is inappropriate for the situation
- depression
- anxiety
- sleep problems
- social withdrawal
- lack of motivation
- difficulty functioning overall