Sometimes the symptoms of neurosis and psychosis may appear very similar and it will take a professionally trained person to recognises the difference.
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Covers anxiety, stress and phobias.
Anxiety disorders are mental illnesses in which recurrent anxiety is a main feature. It can be so serious that the sufferer finds the anxiety and fear take over their life.
Neurotic people may show an exaggeration of normal patterns of behaviour and may become incapacitated. For example they may feel the need to constantly check the time or that doors are locked. The may feel very agitated about carrying out normal every day tasks.
They may feel the need to avoid entering a room where they believe the thing which they fear is. To the person with the fear it may feel perfectly rational to avoid the situation but to others who don't have the same fear the person may appear to be acting irrationally.
Who wouldn't avoid sometime fearful ? It could therefore be argued that the person is behaving in a rational way by trying to avoid the fear. This action could develop into a phobia.
Notice there is a difference between seeing things which don't actually exist and misinterpreting things as something else because of conditioning. For example a person may interpret something that is happening as something else. There is an event taking place so they are not hallucinating the event.
May not include mental problems that seem to have a physical cause.
Includes schizophrenia and manic depression. The inability of a person to distinguish between what is real and what is imaginary is seriously effected.
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Psychosis is a term used to describe a severe mental illness. Psychotics are characterised by a variety of symptoms that most people consider abnormal. These include hallucinations such as seeing things which don't actually exist and hearing voices when no one is around. They may also experience delusions, such as the notion that one is being persecuted or conspired against.
Psychotics tend to have a physical causes that effect the way they think.
Notice there is a difference between seeing thing which don't actually exist and misinterpreting things as something else because of conditioning. For example a person may interpret something that is happening as something else. There is an event taking place so they are not hallucinating the event.
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