Psychosis

Psychosis stood as an alternative to individual’s insanity or mania, used initially during mid nineteenth century. This was derived from Greek term psyche for the mind and ‘osis’defining its abnormal condition. The term ‘psychosis’ was meant to distinguish the disorder of nervous system as the latter was described with the term ‘neurosis’. Psychosis describes the psychiatric generic term conforming mental state of the individual, which involves loss of absolute reality. The term psychosis characterizes derangement of personality and absence of contact with reality.

Details about psychosis

While defining Psychos the Stedman’s Medical Dictionary terms it as a ‘severe mental disorder having prevalent organic damage or absence of it’. The sufferers of psychosis often come up with the complaints like hallucinations or delusional beliefs like paranoid delusions or grandiose. The things delve the lack of insight, turning the individual into unpredictable or bizarre natural pattern. They also find it difficult to interact with society compounded with impairment in carrying out normal personal routine. The psychotic reaction may be caused due to a variety of organic and functional nervous system disorders.

Psychosis is considered to be the ‘fever’ of mental faculties, which is nondescript but a serious indication of a graver problem. Often, the people come across experiences which shred the reality angle and those that have no bearing at those points of time in their lives. Alternatively, there are examples which manifest hallucinations with sudden emergence of inspirational force or religious revelations. Therefore psychosis is argued to be non-confronting with normal consciousness and regarded to be in consortium with normal consciousness. However, there are different examples of clinically diagnosed psychotic cases those may be classified as the cases of intense or distressing experiences and they are called schizotypy.