Sentences with phrase «psychotic thinking»

The impact of the CT intervention extended beyond positive symptoms to include insight, dysphoria and «low level» psychotic thinking.

This paper seeks to determine whether these effects generalise to other features of acute psychosis including dysphoria, insight and «low level» psychotic thinking which were not directly targeted.

Most psychiatric drugs seek to interrupt psychotic thinking, but experts agree that psychosis is just a single symptom — and a late - occurring one at that.

I feel bad for you... it is obvious that you are in denial of your own psychotic thinking.

What begins with trusting issues with my boyfriend (which I totally know where they come from but even so I'm not able to go around and solve it), then easily goes to almost psychotic thoughts / episodes, then I think is PMS, then I'm treated as slightly lunatic again by my boyfriend.

Not exact matches

Well, to take a step back I think it's important to note that dreaming essentially is a time when we all become flagrantly psychotic.

To be clear, he is not suggesting that Gandhi and his ilk were psychotic; their disorders were of mood, not of fractured thought.

You sound psychotic... dude be happy you and your family got to live long lives and stop opperssing yourself... how do you not go crazy laying awake in bed thinking you have wasted even a minute of your precious life giving it to some false diety?

We believe that people who think there are invisible, magical people in the sky, are psychotic.

They seem to love using all the gadgets that prove the power of Science so they can spread the word that Science is wrong and the psychotic bleatings of a few sheep herders 2000 years ago, who thought that the wind blowing meant god had indigestion, are the only ones who know what they are talking about.

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.

You may think it all useless but if you think about it the field is highly interactive with law enforcement agencies out there, so if we have no information to study the various behavior types out there and what motivates people to become violent, the world will become deprived of psychologists which are important to helping law enforcement and hospitals identify people with such psychotic behaviors as this killer.

As the illness continues, psychotic symptoms develop: • False beliefs or thoughts that are not based in reality (delusions) • Hearing, seeing, or feeling things that are not there (hallucinations)

It was written by a bunch of schizophrenic psychotics who thought that oppression and cruelty and totalitarianism were good ideas.

Psychotic people are called «primary process» thinkers by psychiatrists because they are in touch with those deep, primary issues, and they respond to them without the «secondary process» thinking (logic, rationality, denial, avoidance, sublimation etc.) that the rest of us use to deal with them.

I felt if I did those things everyone would think I was psychotic and abusive, acts the were uncalled for.

Not including clergy and prayer is a step in the right direction.There are those delusional, supersticious, psychotic belivers that think prayer and clergy have any control or meaning over anything.It is time to stop this 2000 year old fairy tale.

Although the study participants all suffer from bipolar disorder, the researchers behind the study think that the mechanisms also apply to other psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia.

Psychotic disorders — such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder — cause abnormal thoughts and perceptions, and often involve hallucinations or delusions.

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

Our finding that psychotic - like symptoms when young people are «stoned» are predicted by AKT1 variants is an exciting breakthrough as this acute reaction is thought to be a marker of a person's risk of developing psychosis from smoking the drug.»

Another scenario is a murder committed by a mentally ill son or another family member who is psychotic and thinks the victim is plotting against him.

Abnormal brain activity in psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is thought to stem in part from impaired function of the NMDA receptor.

«If someone's preoccupied by their psychotic symptoms, if you can dampen down their thinking, they lose interest in their delusions,» she says.

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).

«We found it can soar to 81 percent if additional features are present, like a family history of psychotic illness, odd or weird thoughts, and severe social deficits, such as having no friends or withdrawing from contact with others,» he says.

Psychotic symptoms can include detachment from reality, hallucinations, delusions, disorganised thinking, and lack of motivation or emotion.

BPD was originally thought to be «on the border» of a psychotic disorder, like schizophrenia, and a mood disorder, like depression.

Stress modulates hormones that are thought to affect pruning, and stressful events often precede a psychotic break.

But «people aren't really thinking, «This could be a budding psychotic process,»» says Cannon, who spearheaded NAPLS 14 years ago.

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.

These drugs may briefly produce side effects that resemble symptoms of psychotic disorders, including changes in perception, delusions, and disorganization of thought processes.

«The psychiatrists thought I was psychotic myself,» Torrey says.

Senior author Dr. Matcheri Keshavan, a Professor at Harvard Medical School, describes their results: «The main finding was that psychotic disorders are characterized by reduced folding of the cortex in key brain regions such as the cingulate cortex (a brain region involved in thinking and emotions).

We think that in psychotic illnesses the cellular activity is hyperactive.»

No other character in the movie can see these psychotic delusions, yet the one that they do see (the bloody gash from aforementioned shanking) just happens to be caused by the only delusion that the filmmakers don't even show the audience (Nina killing herself, apparently, when she thought she was killing Lily).

For me and, I think, most viewers, other horror movie villains like psychotic killers and deadly animals are simply no match for the faceless unknown that feels like a more plausible and insurmountable threat.

Seriously the entire story is your character has taken on the burden of freeing a small Montana town from the grips of a psychotic religious cult and you still hear the supposed sane thinking characters thanking a higher power when something goes well.

Frank Langella, as the crooked Chief of Staff, is also a comic gem, a near - psychotic, deluded by his own deceit into thinking he has a right to run the country.

You would think that a movie based on two psychotic twin brothers, who rose through the ranks of London's criminal underbelly, and teamed up with the American mafia with the aim of creating Europe's own Las Vegas would be a visceral affair, one heck of a story indeed.

2 min readWhen we think of the holidays, we think of children ripping off wrapping paper in a near - psychotic frenzy, holding up their gifts, and then profusely thanking their parents (or sometimes not — sweaters from aunts just don't get treated with that... Continue Reading →

Today I think we'd term her state a psychotic form of severe postpartum depression, but apart from lacking modern medicine to save her and her child, she probably lacked everything else as well - ample space, adequate food, any sort of safety net whatsoever.

«Another «narcissistic» artist,» her thoughts read, «utterly subversive» but «seriously psychotic,» to the point that «you should be ashamed.»

But at the same time, I know this is irrelevant - because I have developed what I think is the mildly psychotic delusion / safety net that I think is necessary to both succeed, or if not, guard against failure.

But at the same time, I know this is irrelevant — because I have developed what I think is the mildly psychotic delusion / safety net that I think is necessary to both succeed, or if not, guard against failure.

Think of Picasso's Pierrots, the psychotic clowns of Bruce Nauman's 1987 video installation Clown Torture, or Cindy Sherman's recent series of ultrastylized but pathetic clowns.

Sometimes its just delusional but well intended lateral thinking, sometimes it's because they have forgotten to take the anti psychotic medication, sometimes they are paid to post certain stuff.

Your denial that these facts can possibly be due to anything other than the magical gas CO2 shows a depth of delusory thinking which might indicate a psychotic condition.