Research paper on psychosis
Psychosis
Imagine reality as a blur, thoughts are coming out unclear, and having no control over it; this is called psychosis. It is when someone loses contact with reality and hallucinates and stick to their strange beliefs. Psychosis is not new, but recently doctors are accepting the face that the brain of a psychotic person is different from the normal person. In the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6Th edition under psychosis defines it as:
Today, there are separate categories for schizophrenic disorders, mood disorders (which include bipolar disorder and major depression), and other serious mental disturbances such as delusion disorder… Another type of psychosis involves brief episodes, characterized by an acute onset lasting no longer than a month, usually resulting from situational circumstances such as an earthquake or flood.
It is now being treated but many centuries it was seen as wrong, rather than a natural mental disorder. Psychosis is not a specific disorder but is a symptom of a mental illness; basically the brain is not in its right state of mind. There are many mental illnesses that psychosis leads to such as schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder; sadly the abuse of drugs can cause these disorders for the long run. In the early 1900s psychoses was not treated properly, many were patients with schizophrenia. Patients were usually locked away in insane asylums with little to no treatment. In the article “The History of Shock Therapy in Psychiatry” by Renato M.E. Sabbatini says, people were considered plain crazy and psychiatrists began to truly understand psychosis by the 1930s, “these methods began to be supplemented by physical approaches using drugs, electroconvulsive therapy, and surgery.” (Sabbatini). Psychiatrists were experimenting a lot with shock therapies such as insulin shock, chemical convulsions, and electroconvulsive shock. The insulin shock therapy was effective at first and had people content with the results
Imagine reality as a blur, thoughts are coming out unclear, and having no control over it; this is called psychosis. It is when someone loses contact with reality and hallucinates and stick to their strange beliefs. Psychosis is not new, but recently doctors are accepting the face that the brain of a psychotic person is different from the normal person. In the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6Th edition under psychosis defines it as:
Today, there are separate categories for schizophrenic disorders, mood disorders (which include bipolar disorder and major depression), and other serious mental disturbances such as delusion disorder… Another type of psychosis involves brief episodes, characterized by an acute onset lasting no longer than a month, usually resulting from situational circumstances such as an earthquake or flood.
It is now being treated but many centuries it was seen as wrong, rather than a natural mental disorder. Psychosis is not a specific disorder but is a symptom of a mental illness; basically the brain is not in its right state of mind. There are many mental illnesses that psychosis leads to such as schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder; sadly the abuse of drugs can cause these disorders for the long run. In the early 1900s psychoses was not treated properly, many were patients with schizophrenia. Patients were usually locked away in insane asylums with little to no treatment. In the article “The History of Shock Therapy in Psychiatry” by Renato M.E. Sabbatini says, people were considered plain crazy and psychiatrists began to truly understand psychosis by the 1930s, “these methods began to be supplemented by physical approaches using drugs, electroconvulsive therapy, and surgery.” (Sabbatini). Psychiatrists were experimenting a lot with shock therapies such as insulin shock, chemical convulsions, and electroconvulsive shock. The insulin shock therapy was effective at first and had people content with the results