The feeling of this changed perception of reality is one of the early symptoms. It can cause anxiety, depression or a deviant behavior. Early symptoms of a psychosis can also be that you begin keeping to yourself, that you don’t have the strength to work or study and that you start thinking about life a lot in an anguished way.
Keep in mind that there are different types of a psychosis. Psychosis is a generic name for experiencing a changed perception of reality. To explain this occurrence, you can say that reality and fantasy seems just as real. Imagine living in a nightmare.
A psychosis can strike sudden, but the most common beginning is that it develops over time. Schizophrenia is an example that develops this way. If the psychosis strikes suddenly, it’ll be easier to go back to your old life after a treatment. A sudden type of psychosis is often a combination of psychosis and a depression at the same time. In that case you can feel ecstatic in one moment, and in the next moment you’ll feel depressed and start hallucinating.
How long a psychosis lasts is also varying. Some people only experience a psychosis once, while it is recurrent with others.
Psychosis has many causes, inheritance is one of them. Some people are more sensitive and will react with a psychosis to psychologically defend themselves in nervous tensions, like sudden or prolonged stress. Examples of this are trauma, drug influence or problems with handling the further future. There are many