Psychosis: Psychosis is loss of touch with reality. It may occur with patients who have schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, mania, severe depression, schizophreniform disorder, brief reactive psychosis or certain personality disorders. Medical causes of psychosis can include dementia, drug or alcohol intoxication or withdrawal, brain tumors, medication side effects (such as steroids) or stroke.>>>.
Answered 4/21/2013
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By your symptoms.: The most common symptoms are hallucinations ( auditory, visual, smell, taste, touch), delusions ( feeling that people are out to get you or scheming against you, feeling that the tv or radio are talking about you, feeling that people can insert thoughts magically into your mind or steal thoughts from your mind, and hearing your own thoughts spoken aloud outside your mind.) these are. Often accompanied by changes in mood personality and behavior.
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