Psychosis is a medical term used to describe experiencing things like hearing voices or believing others want to harm you, which do not exist in reality. It can be caused by mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, drug use, brain injury, or extreme stress. Treatment options include medication and therapy, which can help manage symptoms and often lead to full recovery for acute cases of psychosis.

1. PSYCHOSIS

2. What is Psychosis?
■ Psychosis is a medical term used to describe
hearing or seeing things that do not exist, or
believing things that other people do not.
■ Common examples include hearing voices or
believing that people are trying to do you
harm.
■ You can experience psychosis for a wide
variety of reasons. For example it can be due
to having a mental illness such as
schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. It may be
caused by drug use, brain injury or extreme
stress.

3. Treatment
■ There are medication if you are suffering from Psychosis as well as therapy you
could attend to help with your symptoms.
■ If Someone with psychosis has a short-term (acute) condition it can be treated,
can often lead to a full recovery.
Types of Psychosis
1. Hallucinations = seeing things that other people don't (for example people's faces, animals or
religious figures)
2. Delusions = False belief that no one else shares.You will still believe it even if logically it
doesn't make sense, or if experiences show that it can't be true.
3. Disorganised thinking and speech = Racing thoughts is where thoughts go through your
head very fast. If you have racing thoughts you usually have flight of ideas too.
Flight of ideas is where your thoughts move very quickly from idea to idea, making links that other
people don't.