L4 - Schizophrenia and Psychosis

• What is psychosis?


   a collection of symptoms that affect the mind, where there has been some loss of contact with reality
• psychosis 


  focus on your perception of reality
• what are the several cause of psychosis?


  psychological disorders, major stress, and drug use
• Schizophrenia


  Is a serious mental health condition that affects how people think, feel and behave.
• what are the symptoms of schizophrenia?


  delusions (ocd and anxiety), hallucinations, disorganised speech, catatonia, and other negavtive symptoms
• what are the causes of schizophrenia?


  brain disorders such as predisposing factors and environmental causes, birth month (winter or spring) due to illness season and pregnancy or birth complications.
• what are the treatment for schizophrenia?


  anti-psychotic and CBT
• key features of psychosis?


  hallucinations, delusions, and disorganised thinkning/ Behaviour
• what is the key difference between schizophrenia and psychosis?


  schizophrenia is a long term, chronic disorder with persistent symptoms while psychosis is a symptoms that may appear in short episodes or as a part of mental disorder