Psychosis is condition that is categorized by hallucinations or delusions and is not an illness …show more content…
A basic description of psychosis it that “if you have psychosis, you might see or hear things, or hold unusual beliefs, that other people do not” (“What is Psychosis?”). A person is diagnosed with psychosis through a psychiatric assessment but other explanations can be found with medical tests and equipment (“Psychosis” Healthline). According to studies, “approximately 3 in 100 people will experience an episode of psychosis during their lives” (“Psychosis” National...).
Psychosis includes having a delusion or hallucination. Having a hallucination would be categorized by “[the] sensory perception in the absence of outside stimulus” (“Psychosis” Healthline). This means that a hallucination is when someone thinks that they have perceived something with their five senses, …show more content…
Three common myths are: People with psychosis are psychopaths, you can contract psychosis from someone, and people with psychosis are bad people or do bad things. There is much information about psychosis that contradict these statements. The first myth can be proved untrue because a person with psychosis is actually the exact opposite of a psychopath. Psychopaths are not capable of compassion and are manipulating in their relationships with other people. They are also potentially violent. Therefore, a psychopath is about the opposite of someone with psychosis. The second illusion that is affiliated with psychosis is that you can attain these symptoms from another person. This is untrue because “‘Psychosis is a medical condition that develops from an imbalance of brain chemicals, in the same way that cancer develops from an ‘imbalance’ of cancer cells’” (“Psychosis Myths and Misinformation”). Cancer and Psychosis is similar in the way that cancer only requires one cell doing it’s job incorrectly, to interrupt and overtake all the correct functions of the other cells. With psychosis, only a few chemicals in the brain need to be working incorrectly to cause people to hallucinate or have delusions. Both cancer and psychosis are caused by the overstimulation of brain or cell activity. The third myth is that people with psychosis are bad people and have malicious intentions. In fact, it is actually rare for people with this