Psychotic Disorders
Psychotic Disorders are a group of mental illnesses that all have signs of psychosis. Psychosis can be identified through a cluster of symptoms and are described as "losing touch with reality”.
Psychosis involves disruptions to a persons thoughts and the way they interpret their thoughts in which it makes it hard to interpret what is reality. Psychosis can interrupt a person's functioning through impaired cognition, reduced ability to understand reality and reduced feelings of safety.
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental health condition that affects how someone thinks, feels and functions. It can result in a mix of hallucinations, delusions, disorganised thinking and strange or uncommon behaviours. These symptoms can come in many forms, along with symptoms including amotivation, lethargy and impaired cognition.
Schizoaffective Disorder
Schizoaffective disorder is a mental health condition that is identified through a combination of schizophrenia symptoms, such as hallucinations, delusions and mood disorder symptoms, such as depression and mania. It can change how people think and function with risks of impulsivity and erratic behaviours.
Delusional Disorder
Delusional disorder is a condition where the main symptom is one or more delusions. A delusion is an unshakable belief in something that’s untrue. The belief isn’t a part of the person’s culture or subculture, and it is often widely know by others to be false. People with delusional disorder often experience delusions that could be within the realm of possibility, however situations have often been misinterpreted with some instances of the delusion being exaggerated.
Psychosis
Psychosis involves a disconnection from reality. People may have false beliefs or experience things that aren’t real. Psychosis involves symptoms of hallucinations and delusions, along with paranoia and disorganised thoughts. It can develop through a range of reasons including drug use, family genetics or trauma. Functioning when experiencing psychosis is very challenging with limitations to organisation, planning and memory.