Sentences with phrase «experiencing psychotic experiences»

The likelihood of experiencing psychotic experiences in adolescence increased with the incidence of nightmares.

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Traditional Buddhist stories abound of meditators being taken over by evil spirits, and contemporary psychological studies of mindfulness practice going back to the 1970s include patients who experienced hallucinations, psychotic episodes, depression and other mental trauma, as well as nerve pain and similar physical impacts.

In the extreme case of the psychotic person living in a private world out of all relation to the real world value - experience is severely restricted, because it lacks the possibilities for growth and enrichment through the establishment of new external relationships.

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

It seems the world is made up of: — persons who enter a mystical state and experience oneness and tranquility — persons who have adverse reactions as their minds dissociate resulting in their experiencing psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

The question of course is: how does a person like me who is experiencing psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena while in an altered state of consciousness know whether or not it is god who is communicating with them?

On researching my experiences I discovered that when some persons engage in intense spiritual practices like intense prayer, meditation etc. it induces psychotic and psychic symptoms as I described above.

All these scriptures / Biblical teachings created a problem for me as over the years when I would experience psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena as a result of intense / deep prayer and meditation, I actually thought that God was trying to show me a sign or tell me something or he was leading me in a particular direction.

She flagged this up to her supervisor, a psychiatrist, who told her in no uncertain terms to leave the subject of abortion well alone; that the woman who mentioned abortion in the first place was not experiencing flashbacks but merely a psychotic reaction to the medication she was on.

Search teams believe he may be suffering from Jerusalem Syndrome - a well - documented condition whereby visitors to the Holy Land experience psychotic delusions, including the belief they are figures from the Bible.

They also experienced more symptoms of paranoia, such as a psychotic episode, than women who developed depression during or after pregnancy.

Following their experiences in detention, I have seen people literally shaking with fear, I've seen them have a psychotic breakdown as the flashbacks of their torture become so frequent that they lose all touch with reality.

The study aimed to determine whether childhood trauma could be considered a cause of psychotic experiences.

Dr Ian Kelleher, Lead Investigator, Department of Psychiatry, RCSI said «Our analysis shows, we believe for the first time, that cessation of traumatic experiences predicted a significantly reduced incidence of psychotic experiences compared to individuals for whom the traumatic experiences continued.

The researchers undertook a nationally representative prospective cohort study of 1,112 school - based adolescents aged 13 - 16 years, and assessed them at baseline, three - months and 12 - months for childhood trauma (defined as physical assault and bullying) and psychotic experiences.

ProfessorMary Cannon, HRB Clinician Scientist and Senior Investigator, Department of Psychiatry, RCSI said «Our findings are the first to show there is direct evidence between exposure to childhood trauma and psychotic experience.

Researchers at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have demonstrated that exposure to childhood trauma (physical assault and bullying) is linked to psychotic experiences, (such as hearing voices), and in turn the cessation of traumatic experiences led to a significant reduction in the incidence of psychotic experiences.

These thoughts are very distressing to women experiencing postpartum depression, but there are no hallucinations, delusions or psychotic symptoms.

PLEs affect many more people than the number who will be diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, and can cause impairments in social and occupational functioning similar to, though less severe than, those experienced by people with psychosis.

They found that those who with this variation in the AKT1 geneotpye were more likely to experience a psychotic response.

«People with psychotic - like experiences spend less time in healthy brain states.»

The participants who reported the psychotic - like experiences (PLEs)-- considered to be at the low end of the psychosis spectrum — spent less time in a brain state reflecting healthier brain network activity.

Younger children, between two and nine years old, who had persistent nightmares reported by parents had up to one and a half times increased risk of developing psychotic experiences.

In contrast, problems with falling asleep or night waking (insomnia) had no relationship to later psychotic experiences.

The study, published today in the journal SLEEP, shows that children reporting frequent nightmares before the age of 12 were three and a half times more likely to suffer from psychotic experiences in early adolescence.

Children who suffer from frequent nightmares or bouts of night terrors may be at an increased risk of psychotic experiences in adolescence, according to new research from the University of Warwick.

Up to half of the 45 million people worldwide who are living with Alzheimer's disease will experience psychotic episodes, a figure that is even higher in some other forms of dementia.

He divides perpetrators into three psychological categories: psychopathic (lacking empathy and concern for others), psychotic (experiencing paranoid delusions, hearing voices and having poor social skills) and traumatized (coming from families marked by drug addiction, sexual abuse and other severe problems).

Before most people experience full - blown psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, they are often diagnosed as being at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis.

They also experienced more symptoms of paranoia, such as a psychotic episode, than women who developed depression during or after pregnancy.

Factors such as poor emotional control, limited coping skills, poor social functioning, and increased stress sensitivity increase a child's risk of experiencing psychotic - like symptoms (e.g., unusual thoughts, suspiciousness, perceptual disturbances).

Although the majority of children who experience trauma do not exhibit signs of psychosis later, a sizeable share (by some estimates as much as 35 %) of children go on to experience psychotic episodes.

One recovered schizophrenic calls her experience with mental hospitals a «revolving door,» and many others can't socialize with other people, even between psychotic episodes.

«The pattern we observed in Ontario suggests that psychosocial factors associated with the migratory experience and integration into Canada may contribute to the risk of psychotic disorders.»

The authors postulate that experiences of discrimination and racism may explain the higher rates of psychotic disorders in some immigrant groups, as indicated by previously published studies.

But when physicians interviewed patients hospitalized after their initial psychotic episode, they were startled to learn that in many cases, «people began experiencing changes in cognition, behavior, and perception for months or years» before psychosis struck, Heinssen says.

Those with psychotic - like experiences but no diagnosis are unlikely to be taking antipsychotic medication.

«Although this was a small, preliminary study, it suggests that marijuana may affect individuals at high risk for psychosis differently than other marijuana users, by briefly inducing psychotic - like experiences and impairing their cognition,» said Nehal Vadhan, PhD, a psychologist and associate professor in Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and first author of the paper.

The finding that a diagnosis but not psychotic - like experiences is associated with low physical activity may reflect aspects of illness such as low motivation, but may also reflect sedative or other side - effects of therapeutic drugs.

Senior author Dr Abraham Reichenberg, Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and with King's IoPPN said: «It is important to bear in mind that many children will experience some difficulties with schoolwork or other intellectual tasks at some point in their lives, and only a small minority will go on to develop a psychotic disorder.»

Dr Josephine Mollon from King's IoPPN, now with Yale University, said: «For individuals with psychotic disorders, cognitive decline does not just begin in adulthood, when individuals start to experience symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, but rather many years prior — when difficulties with intellectual tasks first emerge — and worsen over time.

Up to two thirds of people with Alzheimer's disease experience psychotic episodes, yet the distressing symptom is still widely under - recognised and is challenging to treat.

They then used interviews to assess experiences of nightmares, night terrors and sleepwalking at age 12 and psychotic experiences at age 18.

At age 12, 24.9 % of children reported having nightmares in the previous 6 months and 7.9 % of the sample were found to be experiencing psychotic symptoms.

A cannabis - like substance produced by the brain may dampen delusional or psychotic experiences, rather than trigger them.

Researchers at the University of Warwick have found a significant link between the presence of persistent nightmares in childhood and psychotic experiences in later adolescence.

Experience of stressful events has also been related to both the development of both nightmares and psychotic symptoms in late childhood and may be important.»

There was around twice the odds of later experiencing psychotic symptoms in those earlier reporting nightmares.

«Persistent nightmares in childhood could be linked to psychotic experiences in later adolescence.»