Sentences with phrase «whose psychotic experiences»

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.

Not exact matches

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?

For example, an eight - year - old child exposed to a period of postnatal depression upon the birth of a new sister is less likely to experience a threat to her development compared with an eight year old child whose mother has had repeated hospitalisations due to psychotic episodes resulting from schizophrenia.