The psychosis it is a serious mental illness whose main effect on the patient is the loss of contact with reality, which causes the person to have delusions and false ideas about the events that he is experiencing and about his identity, while causing the patient to suffer hallucinations that will make him see or hear things that he does not exist.
The disease usually appears during the first years of life, but it is from the age of 10 when the symptoms are manifested to a greater extent and when those around the patient realize their lack of contact with reality.
The origin of the psychosis is not clear, although at first it seems to be due to a very deep suffering suffered in childhood, which leads the individual to establish defense mechanisms so brutal that they make him lose contact with reality, to get rid of that suffering.
The symptoms are very varied and usually prevent the patient from interacting socially with other subjects, as well as leading a normal life. The most common are:
- Sudden and profound changes in behavior, with a withdrawal on himself that leads him to not speak to anyone.
- Unfounded belief that others are talking about him or are plotting something against him.
- Soliloquies (talking alone) believing that they are doing it with other people, hearing voices, having visual hallucinations as auditory, all accompanied by periods of mental confusion or other episodes in which there is loss of memory.
The treatment will depend on each patient, since in each one the psychosis can have different manifestations, although they are usually used antipsychotic medications as well as body-mind therapies that help patients to lead a normal life and improve their social relationships.
This article is merely informative, in Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.
