Psychosis
Psychosis is a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. This may result in false beliefs about what is taking place or who one is (delusions) or seeing or hearing things that aren't there (hallucinations). Symptoms usually include:
“Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.”
― Christian Baloga
bibliography
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/248159.php
http://www.deltaproject.ie/psychosis_who_can_get.html
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Psychosis/Pages/Treatment.aspx
- Hallucinations (seeing, hearing feeling or tasting things that other people don’t)
- Difficulty filtering stimulation from the environment
- Delusions (false personal beliefs based on incorrect inferences about reality which are inconsistent with culture and previous beliefs, and which are firmly sustained in spite of evidence or proof to the contrary)
- Confused thinking or speech
- Difficulty doing ordinary things (often includes problems with memory, attention, putting thoughts together)
- Inability telling what is real from what is not
“Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.”
― Christian Baloga
bibliography
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/248159.php
http://www.deltaproject.ie/psychosis_who_can_get.html
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Psychosis/Pages/Treatment.aspx