Sentences with phrase «on psychotic experiences»

Adolescent depression was the primary interest, but data were collected on psychotic experiences, anxiety, conduct problems, educational achievement, substance abuse, self - harm, and physical health.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

Building on the successful Recent Advances in Understanding Mental Illness and Psychotic Experiences (2000), this report is intended for service users, their friends and families, journalists, policymakers, mental health workers and the public.

Dimensional assessment of schizotypal, psychotic, and other psychiatric traits in children and their parents: development and validation of the Childhood Oxford - Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences on a representative US sample.

In the realm of trait variables, in a longitudinal study of stable outpatients involving an initial assessment and a 9 - mo follow - up session, 24 those who scored high on a self - report measure of trait anxiety at the initial assessment and who experienced one or more «independent» stressful life events (ie, events not caused by patient behavior) during the month prior to the follow - up session showed significant increases in psychotic symptoms compared with those who either were low in trait anxiety or had no independent stressful life events.

Modelling psychosocial influences on the distress and impairment caused by psychotic - like experiences in children and adolescents

Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Psychotic - Like Symptoms and Stress Reactivity in Daily Life in Nonclinical Young Adults.