Treatment would look very
different for a person whose
psychotic experiences were linked to depression or anxiety
disorders or were the one - time result of acute stress, compared with a person who is showing the first signs of schizophrenia.
Depression is a complicated matter because there are many reasons people become depressed and
different expressions of depression including: major depression, seasonal affective
disorder (SAD), bipolar
disorder,
psychotic depression, premenstrual dysphoric
disorder and postpartum depression, as examples.