Psychosis News

Psychosis News From AOL News

Opinion: Mental Illness, Public Safety and Lessons From the Past

In the aftermath of the tragedy in Arizona, I watched as the portrait of Jared Loughner, the alleged assailant, began to emerge. It was predictable and painful. Another young man, whose gradual psychological deterioration appeared to have been recognized but apparently not treated, had allegedly erupted in a horrifying...

Opinion: Educators Can Help Prevent Future Giffords Tragedies

The note said "I hope you die like that fat pig Ebert." The detective handed it back to me. We were sitting in my office at the University of Louisville. Someone, most likely a student in my Introduction to Humanities class, had left it for me to find. The detective said, "It's not really a threat." "No," I conceded,...

Study: Pot Smoking Increases Risk of Psychosis

(March 1) -- Before Mike Stultz even ate breakfast, the 17-year-old would start his morning by smoking a joint -- only to bump up with a few hits of marijuana every few hours throughout the day. One year later, he was pulled out of college after suffering from a hallucinatory breakdown. Stultz had become convinced that...

Psychosis News From AOL

THE HUFFINGTON POST

"Truman Show" Delusion Becoming More Common

Nicholas Marzano believes he's the subject of a secret reality show, and everyone in his town of Hillside, Illinois is in on it.

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Anders Breivik, Norwegian Mass Murderer, Declared Sane

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed a total of 77 people, most of them teenagers, last July has been legally declared sane ahead of his trial next week.

Psychosis News From the Web

05/31/12 'Truman show' delusion: Believing life is reality TV Source: NBC - KULR-8 - Billings MT Just when you thought those annoying Kardashians couldn't mess with your head any more than they already do, consider "Mr. A." When he first saw the psychiatrist, he demanded to speak to "the director" of the reality show in which he was starring.
05/30/12 "Truman Show" Delusion Becoming More Common Source: The Huffington Post Nicholas Marzano believes he's the subject of a secret reality show, and everyone in his town of Hillside, Illinois is in on it.
05/29/12 Naked Lunch Source: Slate Many times it's because the voices in their head told them to.
05/29/12 Did Bath Salts Spark âZombie' Attack? Source: The Daily Beast "The particularly alarming thing we noticed when we started seeing these cases were the extremely bizarre symptoms, the super-human strength, the hallucinations. With something like LSD, often the hallucinations users describe aren't horrid things; what people describe on these bath salts are extremely harmful," said Ryan. "They are seeing monsters, soldiers trying to kill them, and they're extremely delusional. They see things going on around them that aren't real, they firmly believe they're talking to Jesusâ¦People have taken guns and shot at houses because they were hearing voices inside. There have been murders associated with bath salts, a man cutting into his own body to take out wires he thought people had put in there."
05/28/12 Family desperate to find missing husband with mental... Source: NBC - NewsChannel 4 KFOR - Oklahoma City OK An Oklahoma City woman is hoping for the safe return of her husband who's been missing for over two weeks.

Background on Psychosis

Psychosis (from the Ancient Greek ψυχή "psyche", for mind/soul, and -ωσις "-osis", for abnormal condition or derangement) means abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality".

more at wikipedia »