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What is psychosis?

Medically reviewed by Lindsay Cook, PharmD Key Takeaways Psychosis makes a person lose touch with reality, causing sensations or beliefs that are not real. Psychosis can be a symptom of other ...
Psychosis refers to a collection of symptoms that affect the mind, where there has been some loss of contact with reality. During an episode of psychosis, a person’s thoughts and perceptions are ...
A phenomenon when using AI chatbots. Arising in the mid-2020s, AI psychosis is delusional thinking after long interactions with AI chatbots. Various lawsuits claim that, like social media, all ...
Clinicians are now confronting a pattern they had never seen at scale before: people arriving in crisis after long, intense ...
This post is part one of a four-part series interviewing psychologist Lisa Dahlgren. When I was first experiencing psychosis, I had to confront a problem. Was my psychosis needing medical attention, ...
Alcohol-induced psychosis can happen after intoxication, during withdrawal, or it can be chronic among people living with alcohol use disorder (AUD). Here’s what it looks like. Alcohol is a ...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition, and psychosis is a more general term that describes a range of experiences. They may both share similar symptoms, such as intrusive ...