Deep psychosis is a severe state of detachment from reality, characterized by hallucinations and delusions. It can be triggered by past traumatic events or stress and is often associated with mood disorders and mental illnesses. Treatment involves medication and psychiatric care.
Deep psychosis is an acute state of psychosis during which a person is so completely detached from reality that abstract thinking, planning and socializing with real people are completely replaced by hallucinations and delusions. The standard form of psychosis distorts one’s ability to realistically perceive oneself, events, and other beings, but sufferers generally can function partially and engage in limited social interactions with varying degrees of detachment and delusion. The difference is that with deep psychosis, the sufferer moves to the most severe level of detachment in which normal functioning and reasoning are not possible.
This state can be temporary or long-term. It is often one of the conditions understood by the phrase “temporary insanity”. Often triggered by sights, sounds, smells, or other associations with past traumatic events, this type of psychosis can also be a response to new and unpleasant stimuli or to stress that seems unavoidable by any other means.
Crisis level patients of profound psychosis, also known as acute psychosis, often feel completely isolated and are often unable to communicate with their therapists. Therapists generally mimic patients’ speech and actions to create some form of contact. This mimicry can create a path for the patient to return to the normal world; most patients find it difficult to return to normal after an episode, because they are forced to integrate the imaginary world into their real environment, but do not know how. Re-entry often involves a confrontation, which can turn violent. Medical professionals typically use pharmaceuticals and physical restraints to calm a person’s violent behavior as they exit or continue into the acute psychosis phase.
Mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder are frequent precursors of profound psychoses; so are mental disorders such as schizophrenia, dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. These exacerbating conditions are so closely linked because the condition typically takes weeks or months to develop, and these conditions allow a person to incubate mental stress for extended periods of time. After ascending to an isolated and completely detached state, a person in acute psychosis may commit acts that the normal world considers criminal or indecent, while seeing them as redemptive and even heroic.
To prevent profound psychosis, people with manic depression and schizophrenia often take antipsychotic medications. Doctors report that most episodes of the condition are related to interruptions in drug therapy where a patient refuses or forgets to take medication. While drugs can enable a person with mental disorders to integrate and live in mainstream society, the state of profound psychosis makes a person a danger to themselves and society and generally leads to a temporary or permanent commitment to an assessment center and psychiatric treatment.
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