Sentences with phrase «psychotic symptoms for»

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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.

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?

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.

A homotypic pattern consisted of affective or mood - associated symptoms that are related to, but fall short of, standard diagnostic criteria for BD: for example, mood swings, relatively mild symptoms of excitement, or major depression, sometimes severe and with psychotic symptoms.

The Warwick research is the first to test the prospective association between adolescent cannabis use and hypomania in early adulthood, whilst controlling for important other factors that might explain this connection (e.g psychotic symptoms).

She says a small, unpublished study done by her group has shown that brain training for people in the early stages of schizophrenia reduced psychotic symptoms.

The PIER staff believed that her symptoms, coupled with a history of schizophrenia on both sides of the family, put her at high risk for a full - blown psychotic break with reality.

Lately, the drug has also been in the news as a possible treatment for schizophrenia, after psychotic symptoms disappeared in a young Japanese man treated with the antibiotic for pneumonia.

«When young people come to youth mental health services, we should be assessing for trauma and for emerging psychotic symptoms, and treating them as soon as they emerge,» Dr Bendall said.

Dr Bendall said providing this evidence was a crucial first step in developing tailored, sensitive and effective treatments for trauma - based psychotic symptoms.

Individuals who have had mild or transient psychotic symptoms (such as unusual thoughts, suspiciousness, perceptual disturbances) without using substances such as marijuana or alcohol and have a family history of psychosis or other risk factors are considered at clinical high risk for psychotic disorder.

At the age of 12, participants in the study were interviewed to assess for the presence of psychotic - like symptoms including hallucinations, delusions and thought interference in the previous six months.

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.

Similar to what is found in adults with schizophrenia, for the subgroup of subjects with pre-illness scores, there was an initial steep decline in IQ, from about 2 years prior to 1.7 years after onset of psychotic symptoms.

These authors argue that this pattern of a plateau in IQ despite persisting psychotic symptoms and substantial gray matter loss argues against a neurodegenerative model of schizophrenia for COS especially since they found improvements on certain subtests of IQ.

«The approval of Fanapt ™ marks a new opportunity for many patients with schizophrenia, who experience only partial responses to current therapies, to achieve better control of their symptoms,» remarked Dr. Peter J. Weiden, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Psychotic Disorders Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Participants had psychotic symptoms, not caused by substance misuse, for > 4 weeks and scored 4 or more on the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS).

Individuals with psychotic disorders might choose to forgo antipsychotic medication because of side effects.1 Over 40 randomised controlled trials (RCT) have demonstrated that cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is generally efficacious in improving symptoms, with small to medium effect sizes in individuals with psychotic disorders.2 It was unknown, until now, if individuals with psychotic disorders who were antipsychotic - free could tolerate CBTp and benefit from it.

The power calculation for detecting the association between perceived discrimination and psychotic symptoms (delusional hallucination) was based on Janssen et al. 21 This study differs from our study because it has a longitudinal design and it also includes Dutch inhabitants, not only migrants.

To be conservative, we counted these participants as psychotic only if (1) their symptoms persisted for at least 1 week; (2) they had not used alcohol, illicit drugs, or medication during this time; and (3) a project clinician (a psychiatrist or clinical psychologist) reviewed the case and judged that the symptoms were «probably indicative of psychosis.»

Patients in the family intervention group had better functioning on activities of daily living than patients in the 2 control groups, but did not differ for cognitive function, depression, psychotic symptoms, behavioural disturbances, or overall severity of dementia.

Integrated Trauma - Focused Cognitive - Behavioural Therapy for Post-traumatic Stress and Psychotic Symptoms: A Case - Series Study Using Imaginal Reprocessing Strategies.

Thus although individual CBT for persistent psychotic symptoms when added to medication may confer some modest benefits in reducing emotional distress, 2 and should continue to be offered, it is not efficacious in preventing further relapse among those recovering from a recent relapse.

The odds of subjects showing a reduction in psychotic symptoms of 50 % or more decreased by a multiplication factor of 0.87 for every additional year of duration of illness, and decreased by a multiplication factor of 0.15 for every unit increase in severity of illness.

301 people aged 18 — 65 years (218 without carers, 83 with carers) with non-affective psychosis (ICD - 10 category F2 and DSM - IV) and a second or subsequent psychotic episode not more than 3 months before the trial began, plus a rating of at least 4 for one or more positive symptoms on the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS).

Primary outcomes: relapse (re-emergence of, or significant deterioration in, positive psychotic symptoms of at least moderate severity, persisting for ⩾ 2 weeks) and total days in hospital.

Psychotic symptoms occur more frequently in the general population than psychotic disorder and index risk for psychopPsychotic symptoms occur more frequently in the general population than psychotic disorder and index risk for psychoppsychotic disorder and index risk for psychopathology.

Management guidelines for behavioural and psychotic symptoms in persons with dementia — A review article

Measures utilized include the Diagnostic Infant and Preschool Assessment (DIPA), the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children, the Clinical Global Impression — Severity (CGI), the Clinical Global Impression — Improvement (CGI — Improvement), the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM - IV - TR Axis I Disorders, Research Version, Patient Edition With Psychotic Screen (SCID - RV), the Expectancy Rating Form, and the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire.

Measures utilized include the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM — IV Axis I Disorders With Psychotic Screen (SCID), the PTSD Symptom Scale — Interview (PSS - I), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Social Adjustment Scale (SAS), and State - Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI).

Measures utilized include the Pennebaker Inventory of Limbic Languidness (PILL), the Social Adjustment Scale, theStructured Clinical Interview for DSM — IV Axis I Disorders With Psychotic Screen, the PTSD Symptom Scale — Interview (PSS), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Social Adjustment Scale (SAS), and PTSD Symptom Scale — Self - Report (PSS — SR).

Measures utilized include the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM — IV Axis I Disorders With Psychotic Screen, the PTSD Symptom Scale — Interview (PSS), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Social Adjustment Scale (SAS), and PTSD Symptom Scale — Self - Report (PSS — SR).

The study gound that cannabis use is a risk factor for the development of incident psychotic symptoms.

Continued cannabis use might increase the risk for psychotic disorder by impacting on the persistence of symptoms.

Relapse rate defined as re-emergence of symptoms associated with significant disturbance in functioning and social behavior (clinical judgment), which considered time period of symptom exacerbation measured by average outcome of time duration of rehospitalization for psychotic symptom treatment.

DBT is not recommended for clients with prominent psychotic symptoms (e.g., diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder or schizophrenia), current alcohol or substance abuse, or significant cognitive or intellectual impairments as these symptoms may interfere with the capacity to learn and implement DBT skills.

Associations Between Peer Victimization and Narrow Psychotic Symptom Status Additionally Controlling for Potentially Confounding Factors

Associations between peer victimization and psychotic symptoms controlling for possible confounders

Using the experience sampling method (ESM), a structured diary technique assessing current context, mood, and psychotic symptoms in daily life (I.M. - G., M. Oorschot, D. Collip, J. Lataster, P. Delespaul, J. Van Os, unpublished data), 20 it was shown that increased risk for psychosis is associated with increased emotional reactivity to the small stresses of daily life.