The wish to die is usually transient, or at least time-limited and reversible. Having a support system with an explicit plan ...

This is the first attempt to systematically explore the qualitative literature on the experiences of women with psychosis. Three overarching themes emerged and a model was developed to explain ...

Schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder are often confused with each other, but they are fundamentally different. Why are ...

Living with bipolar disorder can mean experiencing everything from intense emotional highs and lows to challenges with energy, focus, and more. Understanding your symptoms is essential to managing ...

Psychotic disorders are severe mental health disorders that cause abnormal thinking and perceptions. Persons with a psychotic disorder often lose touch with reality and may experience symptoms like ...

Psychosis occurs when you lose touch with reality and experience hallucinations and/or delusions. It can be caused by psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, and ...

In summary, women with psychosis hold beliefs about their illness, which incorporate contextual factors and spiritual beliefs in addition to biomedical explanations. They developed adaptive ...

The most severe episodes can trigger psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that do not exist) or delusions (false beliefs). If you have a diagnosis of bipolar ...

Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia overlap in some ways. For instance, both can lead to psychosis, a state of mind causing a detachment from reality. Although they have some similarities ...

Dear Annie: I live with bipolar disorder, which I was first diagnosed with in the early 1990s. My husband and I got together ...

Participants Individuals prescribed antipsychotics between 2007 and 2011. Measures The proportion of individuals prescribed antipsychotics with a diagnosis of (1) psychosis and bipolar disorder, (2) ...

The stigma around bipolar disorder prevents people from speaking out publicly about their struggles, furthering their shame ...