Psychiatry

PSYCHOSIS

Psychosis is a condition which affects the way your brain processes information. It can cause you to lose touch with reality. You might see and hear or believe things that which aren’t real. Psychosis is a symptom not an illness. A mental or physical illness and substance abuse or extreme stress or trauma can cause it.

Psychotic disorders like schizophrenia which involve psychosis that usually affects you for the first time in the late teen years or early adulthood.