What is the difference between a schizophrenic and someone who is psychotic ?
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schizophrenic
-a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
psychotic
-a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
well someone who is schizo is someone who has two personalities i believe, and someone who is psychotic can have many different symptoms, for example, hearing voices, seeing things that arent there.
Schizophrenia is a multiple-personality disorder...Psychosis is a larger array of things that MAY include schizophenia, or some other disorder...but overall, psychotic people have a mental issue that makes them a big menace to society.
But...one can be schizophrenic without neccesarily being psychotic.
You can recover from a psychotic episode. Schizophrenia is with you for life.
Schizophrenia is NOT multiple personalities and has absolutely nothing to do with multiple personlities. It is a combination of symptoms and psychosis is only a part of the illness.
Psychosis can occur in severe depression, mania or even in otherwise mentally healthy people when under extreme amounts of stress. Basically, it's losing touch with reality.
As for a basic understing on how one can tell the difference between a psychotic episode and schizophrenia, I suggest you refer to the DSM. If you do a quick search, you should be able to find the usual symptoms of both schizophrenia and a psychotic episode. Compare the two.
contrary to popular belief schizophrenia is not split personality. it's extreme mood swings which i suppose can give the impression of two personalities. people that are said to be psychotic tend to suffer from sudden bursts of extreme uncontrollable violence! the word comes from psychosis, an umbrella term for mental illnesses.
Good question.
First off, schizophrenia is NOT a word that means multiple personalities. It used to mean that, but now we call that 'multiple personality disorder'.
Both words words get thrown around a *lot*, and a lot of people use them to just mean 'Crazy'. But if we're asking about an actual medical diagnosis (when a doctor would actually tell you your friend was psychotic, or schizophrenic) then they are pretty different.
Schizophrenia has a very wide variety of symptoms. It can include hallucinations, delusions or just very disorganised and confused thinking. If you have enough symptoms for long enough, then you get diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Psychosis isn't a disorder exactly, just like fever isn't a 'disease'. Psychosis is actually a symptom. If a person is 'psychotic' then this doesn't tell you what disease or disorder they actually have.
Being psychotic means you've lost touch with reality. If your shizophrenia is very bad, then you are probably psychotic, but you might have a milder kind of schizophrenia. You could also be psychotic because of another disorder, and not have schizophrenia at all.
I've experienced psychosis twice. I was hospitalized both times. My diagnosis is bi-polar with psychosis.
A high dose of Geodon brought me back to reality real quickly. (The second episode was when I had gone off the Geodon.)
Sooooo -- what's it like?
It was awesome!! Okay, I was paranoid so that was bad, but the complexity of the scenarios was amazing. Like patterns within patterns.
I could read a magazine and every story had this elaborate story behind it and I could laugh so hard at these "normal" stories. Plus I believed the magazine was made especially for me.
And there was time travel, and genetic engineering and robots! It was craaaaaaazy. But just these rushing thoughts and elaborate conspiracy theories that involved television commercials and random objects around the house.
I wasn't violent, but I was seriously in my own delusional world and I could certainly have harmed someone if I had access to a gun or even a car. I just wasn't in touch with reality. I was just babbling incoherently which is why my parents took me to the hospital.
Although I was delusional, I didn't see hallucinations. I saw normal objects-- but everything had an elaborate story behind it.
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