Psychosis and schizophrenia

Hi all,

I have been diagnosed as having an atypical psychosis. Is it the same as having schizophrenia ?

Best regards,

No, not really. Psychosis is a term used to describe a certain state; psychosis occurs in many different illnesses and can even have a physical root rather than a mental illness causing it. Head injuries, very high fever, that kind of stuff can cause psychotic symptoms.

Psychosis can occur in schizophrenia; but it doesn't mean you have schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is much more than just psychosis although psychotic symptoms are very very common in that illness. Psychosis can also occur as part of depression, bipolar and so on.

A person can have one episode of psychosis brought on by whatever reason and once recovered never suffer again.

You'll probably find that you have similar experiences to some of us with schizophrenia in some ways. The same would be true of some depressive patients adn some bipolar.

Did that explanation make any sense?

Isme wrote:No, not really. Psychosis is a term used to describe a certain state; psychosis occurs in many different illnesses and can even have a physical root rather than a mental illness causing it. Head injuries, very high fever, that kind of stuff can cause psychotic symptoms.

Psychosis can occur in schizophrenia; but it doesn't mean you have schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is much more than just psychosis although psychotic symptoms are very very common in that illness. Psychosis can also occur as part of depression, bipolar and so on.

A person can have one episode of psychosis brought on by whatever reason and once recovered never suffer again.

You'll probably find that you have similar experiences to some of us with schizophrenia in some ways. The same would be true of some depressive patients adn some bipolar.

Did that explanation make any sense?

Yeah, the explanation made sense to me Thank you vey much.