Psychosis
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Harmful effects seen with repeated ketamine abuse...used as a veterinary anesthetic. In humans, it causes hallucinations and high blood pressure. A one-time dose of ketamine can cause psychosis-like effects and impaired thinking, Dr. Celia J. A. Morgan and colleagues, from University College... In this article: Ketamine, Psychosis, Hallucination, University College London, and NEW YORK |
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BBC News | 3 days ago
Sacked adviser urges drugs probe
...and tobacco from illegal drugs and said smoking cannabis created only a "relatively small risk" of psychotic illness. Skunk and psychosis But this view is challenged by research due to be published next month by Robin Murray,...
In this article: Cannabis, Alan Johnson, BBC Radio 4, Institute of Psychiatry, Tobacco, and Robin Murray
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Reuters | 4 days ago
Heart disease a killer in psychotic individuals
...likely to die of heart disease than mentally healthy individuals, a study in US veterans indicates. While the fact that people with psychosis were more likely to smoke and be inactive accounted for much of the difference, it didn't...
In this article: Bipolar disorder, Mental disorder, Dementia, Delusion, Cardiovascular disease, Hallucination, and Reuters Health
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Times Online | 5 days ago
'Laughing fraudster' jailed for conning banks out of more than GBP8m
...of his requests for information concerning its RBS account. Judge Timothy Stow, QC, said: "I am quite sure that he was unaffected by any psychosis or symptoms of any sort of paranoid schizophrenia when he committed the sophisticated frauds...
In this article: Defendant, Delusion, Shinhan Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, University of Dundee, and Bank of Korea
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Moderate Voice | 6 days ago
Nidal Hasan: Homicidal and Suicidal Psychoses Is Not Terrorism, Rather, It Comes From Being Psychotically Terrified
...'freedom of speech,' and 'freedom of movement. ' Anti-psychotic medicine, to gentle and still the storms, and to slow or stop the psychosis, is what we have to offer a person who suffers from this at present. A large number of persons...
In this article: God, Offal, Surgery, Anti-psychotic, Hypervigilance, Virginia Tech, and Charles Manson
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washingtonpost.com | November 13, 2009
Sri Lanka general hits out before possible poll bid
...branches would "be very dangerous." Fonseka also said the president had succumbed to every Sri Lankan leader's longstanding "fear psychosis of a coup," which prompted the government to sound a false alarm to India in October. Diplomats...
In this article: Sarath Fonseka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka, Suicide, Janaka Perera, United National Party, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and U.S. State Department
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Jury to decide mom's mental health in murder trial
...Sanchez had appeared fine and gave no hint of a severe mental illness. An estimated one in 1,000 women are afflicted with postpartum psychosis. Unlike postpartum depression, which occurs in as many as one in five new mothers, women with...
In this article: Hallucination, San Antonio, Texas, and Postpartum depression
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AP Online | November 12, 2009
Lawyer: Mental illness wore down accused Texas mom
...court appearance Thursday, the question remains: could someone have stopped it? "There was no, 'Here, she's suffering from postpartum psychosis - you better do this, do that and keep an eye on her every minute,'" said Ed Camara, Sanchez's...
In this article: Mental disorder, Texas, Hallucination, and Postpartum depression
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Psychosis (from the Greek ψυχή "psyche", for mind or soul, and -οσις "-osis", for abnormal condition), with adjective psychotic, literally means abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality". People suffering from psychosis are said to be psychotic.
People experiencing psychosis may report hallucinations or delusional beliefs, and may exhibit personality changes and disorganized thinking. This may be accompanied by unusual or bizarre behavior, as well as difficulty with social interaction and impairment in carrying out the activities of daily living.
A wide variety of central nervous system diseases, from both external toxins, and from internal physiologic illness, can produce symptoms of psychosis. This disease link has led to the metaphor of psychosis as the 'fever' of CNS illness—a serious but nonspecific indicator.
However, many people have unusual and distinct (unshared) experiences of different realities at some point in their lives, without being impaired or even distressed by these experiences. For example, many people have experienced visions of some kind, and some have even found inspiration or religious revelation in them. As a result, it has been argued that psychosis is not fundamentally separate from normal consciousness, but rather, is on a continuum with normal consciousness. In this view, people who are clinically found to be psychotic may simply be having particularly intense or distressing experiences (see schizotypy).
In contemporary culture, the term "psychotic" is often incorrectly used interchangeably with "psychopathic" (which describes a more long-term condition prone to violence, rarely having hallucinations).
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