What are the diseases of psychotic disorder? Psychotic illnesses are diseases that disrupts how we think, how we understand, how we hear, how we see, how we feel, and disrupts our relationship with other people and disrupts our personal behaviour. These diseases can be experienced by anyone without discrimination of race, gender, or education level. The majority of these people who are affected by mental disorder are older than the age of 10 years.
*Symptoms:
1• Delusions – Believing something that is not true. People with this problem are doubting people. They doubt things without a reason e.g. people are following me to hurt me, people are going to poison me to kill me, people are talking about me. They think they can do something that is not based on their education and knowledge. They believe that they are loved by people they don’t know e.g. famous people. They are not religious leader but they act like religious leader.
2. Hallucinations – Emotional function Seeing and hearing things that doesn’t exist. Hearing and seeing at the distance that our ears and eyes can’t hear and see(extracampine hallucinations), and smelling and tasting the smells and tastes that doesn’t exist.
3• Disorganized Speech– Unsensible speech. Talking about something that is not understanding. Answering questions which is not related to each other.
4• Disorganized behaviour- Talking alone, laughing alone, insulting and beating people, restlessness, not taking care of themselves, going out of the house, walking naked, going somewhere without a plan.
5• Negative Symptoms- Losing previous habit, lack of motivation, lack of feeling, lack of thinking and decision making and talking.
*Causes: Although the causes of these problems are not fully known, there are reasons such as: Stressful life events like death of family, wars, natural disaster, rape. Genetic inheritance, Neurotransmitter imbance, addictions of drugs
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