Psychosis

:This article is about the mental state. For the professional wrestler known as Psychosis, see Dionicio Castellanos.

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Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for mental states in which the components of rational thought and perception are severely impaired. Persons experiencing a psychosis may experience hallucinations, hold paranoid or delusional beliefs, demonstrate personality changes and exhibit disorganized thinking (see thought disorder). This is usually accompanied by features such as a lack of insight into the unusual or bizarre nature of their behavior, difficulties with social interaction and impairments in carrying out the activities of daily living. Essentially, a psychotic episode involves loss of contact with reality, sometimes termed "loss of reality testing."

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