Psychotic Depression
Wednesday June 23, 2004
"Roughly 25 percent of people who are admitted to the hospital for depression suffer from psychotic depression. Psychotic depression is characterized by not only depressive symptoms, but also by hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that aren't really there) or delusions (irrational thoughts and fears). Often psychotically depressed people become paranoid or come to believe that their thoughts are not their own (thought insertion) or that others can 'hear' their thoughts (thought broadcasting)."--Submitted by Aleta
Comments
Is psychotic depression different from paranoid schiziophrenia? My son was admitted to the hospital in his college town after a psychotic episode brought on by drugs. His doctor now insist it can only be schiziophrenia. He only had this one episode, he’s sociable, and able to work- I don’t agree with that doctor.