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Understanding Psychosis: Signs, Symptoms, and Consequences

Learn about the early, nonspecific changes in behavior and cognition that may indicate psychosis. From social withdrawal to sensory perceptions, explore key symptoms, consequences, and treatment options for psychosis.

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Understanding Psychosis: Signs, Symptoms, and Consequences

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  1. Psychosis

  2. Early, non specific changes (signs) • Social withdrawal or isolation • Decline in functioning (at school or work, in self-care) • Depressed mood • Anxiety • Decreased motivation • Reduced concentration • Sleep disturbance • Reduced emotional expression • Problems with handling everyday stress • Impairment in personal hygiene

  3. What do you say whensomebodyasksyou ‘ what is psychosis’? • Problems in meaningand thinking • Problems in sensoryperception • Problemswithcognitivefunctioning • Problems in emotional life

  4. Problems in the meaningand thinking • The meaning: interpretation of himself or the surroundings: delusions f.e. socialinteraction: canyou trust that person? He looks angrywith me. • A person withpsychosis is attractedby a specificsort of interpretation. f.e. megalomania: he is loving me. f.e. suspiciousness • Lots of associations

  5. Problems in sensoryperception • Hallucinations (hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling, feeling)

  6. Problems in cognitivefunctioning • Problemswithrecognising the tone of a conversation • Problems in recognisingmimicexpressionsandgestures • Problems in flexibility (switchingfromone subject toanother is hard) • Problems in information processing (everything is important) • Problemswithabstraction

  7. Problems in emotionalfunctioning • Lessemotional drive • Flat emotions • Flat mimic

  8. Consequences • Lessemotionalexpressions • Depression • Isolation • Loss of skills • Loss of control • Anxiety, agitation

  9. Brain • Frontalbrain: lack of dopamin • Emotions, abstractionandlearning -> apathy • Central brain: tomuchdopamin • Marking of information: what is important -> everythingseemstobe important.

  10. Treatment • Medication • Psycho-education • Crisis-intervention • Earlyintervention

  11. Psychosis • documentary

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