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	Psychotic Disorders
		Psychotic disorders are a collection of disorders in which psychosis predominates the symptom complex.
		These patients do not have a primary psychotic disorder; rather, their psychosis is secondary to a mood disorder.
		Schizophrenia is a disorder in which patients have psychotic symptoms and social and/or occupational dysfunction that persists for at least 6 months.
	www.health.am /psy/psychotic-disorders (374 words)

	Psychosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Psychosis should also be distinguished from the state of delirium, in that a psychotic individual may be able to perform actions that require a high level of intellectual effort in clear consciousness.
		Psychotic states occurring after drug use may be particularly linked to drug overdose, chronic use and drug withdrawal.
		For example, people experiencing a psychotic episode in the context of depression may experience persecutory or self-blaming delusions or hallucinations, while people experiencing a psychotic episode in the context of mania may form grandiose delusions or have an experience of deep religious significance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychosis (4117 words)

	Lisa McPherson's Web Page
		In fact, human beings are actually afraid of a person in a psychotic break and in desperation turn to psychiatry to handle.
		Subsequent times of wrong indication in his life were cleared up, the person came out of the psychotic break and into p.t.
		"The EP in a psychotic break is the end of the psychotic break.
	www.scientology-kills.org /personal_pgs/mcpherson/quote.htm (425 words)

	Psychosis
		WILLIAM M. A case report of a patient who had an acute psychotic break is presented.
		The patient was hospitalized for an acute psychotic break.
		It is thus our recommendation that, in the evaluation of the psychotic or psychiatric patient, evaluation for vasospasm and cerebral ischemia should be performed and treatment instituted empirically to reverse any abnormalities found, as the psychiatric disturbance may have a vascular component.
	www.medforum.com /jobline-srch/lifeline/articles/psy00005/article.html (893 words)

	Crime and Justice
		I believe in the heat of the moment, in the heat of his anger, that everything (argument with Colette, Jeffrey's being tired which Colette had mentioned to a friend she had been worrying about, etc.) escalated to a point of no return.
		Psychotic break does not fit what happened in 1970 in my eyes but, of course, I'm no psychologist.
		But psychotic break - no. His actions were much too oriented to support such a theory.
	www.crimeandjustice.us /forums/index.php?showtopic=2183 (1029 words)

	NAMI Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		On the average, men experience their first psychotic episode in their early- to mid- twenties, and women in their late twenties; however, it may strike in late adolescence when, it seems, the pressures exerted during the transition into adulthood overtax the system.
		During an acute psychotic episode -- during the first psychotic break, when medications have been discontinued, or when an attack forces its way through the preventive effects of the medication, for example -- full hospitalization may be required.
		Once you begin to experience psychotic symptoms, you may not be able to judge that they are unusual; it may therefore be up to friends and family members to recognize the problem and seek help.
	www.namigeorgia.org /schizo.html (1525 words)

	New Page 1
		All are broad patterns of brain disfunction that lead to similar patterns of symptomatology, such as the inability to separate fact from fiction (delusions), false perceptions, disorganized speech and behavior, and the inability to care for oneself.
		Amador was taught that patients with psychotic disorders who had poor insight felt stigmatized and were defending themselves.
		Failure to treat psychotic episodes resulted in worsening of the mental illness, poorer response to medication, and increased overall severity of the illness.
	www.state.wv.us /wvsca/mentalhyg/amador.htm (656 words)

	Birmingham-Southern Campus Police- ERM Psychological Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A psychological crisis exists when an individual is threatening harm to himself/herself or to others, or is out of touch with reality due to severe drug reactions or a psychotic break.
		A psychotic break may be manifested by hallucinations or uncontrollable behavior.
		A psychotic episode may also involve a person from a neighborhood hospital or a halfway house walk-away.
	www.bsc.edu /Administration/police/manual/psychcrisis.htm (108 words)

	My sister had an "Acute Psychotic Break" - HealthBoards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Her diagnosis at the hospital was an "acute psychotic break," but we have no further information.
		If her psychotic break down does include those types of symtoms she may have a form of schizophrenia.
		Her feelings about the "psychotic break" are that it was related to stress caused by her unemployment(she works in IT).
	www.healthboards.com /boards/showthread.php?t=152023&highlight=ativan (1826 words)

	QiGong Psychotic Reaction/Deviation "zou huo ru mo""Pian Cha"
		QiGong Psychotic Reaction/Deviation "zou huo ru mo""Pian Cha"
		thus breaking your concentration, you cannot stop seeing the movement which will continue to be detected and cause your brain to continue to attempt to generate additional reflexes.
		The depth or strength of the psychotic mental break will depend on each individual's total exposure as well as the nature or direction of the episode.
	www.visionandpsychosis.net /QiGong_Psychotic_Reaction_Diversion.htm (4351 words)

	The negative symptoms of schizophrenia
		An eruption of these psychotic symptoms — a psychotic break — is often what brings a person with schizophrenia to treatment for the first time.
		But the psychotic or “positive” symptoms are not necessarily the most important or characteristic ones.
		Psychotic, negative, and cognitive symptoms could result from different underlying processes, each with a genetic basis, that occur separately or together.
	www.health.harvard.edu /fhg/updates/update1006c.shtml (718 words)

	Meador-Woodruff Lab: About Schizophrenia
		Triggers should not be construed to imply blame on family, friends, or the patient, however, nor is there something inherent in the trigger that causes the illness.
		Although dopamine and its D2 family of receptors appear to be a critical step in the pathophysiology and treatment of schizophrenia, it has become increasingly apparent that the pathophysiology underlying schizophrenia is not quite so simple.
		For example, although the drugs that we use to treat this disorder interfere with dopamine neurotransmission, it often takes weeks to months for these drugs to have their effects, and therapeutic effects are often suboptimal, with patients still reporting psychotic symptoms albeit at reduced levels.
	www.umich.edu /~jmwlab/about.html (2689 words)

	Early treatment of schizophrenia may improve outcomes - He@lthLINK: Mental health - Yale-New Haven Hospital
		Although early symptoms of psychotic illness are usually recognized after the first psychotic break, study investigators are now using new criteria to diagnose and treat patients who are experiencing these early symptoms.
		The remaining 20 percent of subjects are considered at risk for developing schizophrenia because of brief intermittent psychotic episodes or because they have a family history of schizophrenia and have had a recent, significant loss of functioning.
		Those with such programs provided education for their residents, school counselors and health care workers about psychotic symptoms such as increasing isolation, responding to voices no one else hears, delusional thinking, irritability, difficulty sleeping and overall marked reduction in the ability to cope with life's daily stresses.
	www.ynhh.org /healthlink/mentalhealth/mentalhealth_7_04.html (1967 words)

	The Cause of Psychotic Mental Illness
		Hearing voices is one of the first effects of psychotic mental breaks such as ICU Psychosis.
		A guess is that when the brain attempts to learn how to deal with repeating subliminal input connections and associations are made that break down the normal barrier between a sleeping and waking state at least in reference to dreaming.
		Family members and those who co-habit with a psychotic person would possibly share exposure if the activities of both, while in the home, were the same.
	www.visionandpsychosis.net /Psychotic_Mental_Illness_Cause.htm (11698 words)

	Schizophrenia Daily News Blog: Hypofrontality as early Schizophrenia marker
		All subjects were given an MRI scan during an attention task (to activate the frontal brain regions) during hospitalization for a first-episode psychotic break.
		The remainder of the MRI group recieved the diagnosis of acute psychotic episode; they had no recurrance of psychosis during the 2-year follow-up period, and no incidence of negative or disorganized symptoms.
		Despite confounding variables (small homogenous sample size), the authors conclude that identifying hypofrontality in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex after an acute psychotic episode may be an early marker for schizophrenia.
	www.schizophrenia.com /sznews/archives/001482.html (355 words)

	Admitting in criminal trial juvenile probation officer’s opinion about defendant’s state of mind at time of offense ...
		On January 10, 2002, the Dallas Court of Appeals held that a criminal court judge’s ruling permitting a juvenile probation officer to testify that the defendant had not suffered from a psychotic break when he stabbed the victim to death was harmless error if it was error at all.
		According to a child psychiatrist, called by appellant, appellant was improperly diagnosed with ADHD and inappropriately prescribed Adderall and Zoloft.
		Additionally, the psychiatrist opined the combination of Adderall and Zoloft could cause a psychotic state, rendering an individual taking those two medications unable to conform his conduct to the law.
	www.tjpc.state.tx.us /publications/reviews/02/02-1-16.htm (1242 words)

	GLOBAL VISION : WHEN THE DREAM BECOMES REAL : CHAPTER 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Whether individual or collective, a chronic blockage of the psyche's inner communications process may lead beyond a mere sense of ennui, and eventually jeopardise the ability to be responsible for one's health and survival.
		What really took Jung's colleagues by surprise, however, was his declaration that the so-called acute schizophrenic break phenomenon is actually no disease, but rather a natural (and temporary!) healing process – which automatically activates itself in response to the underlying blockage which I have just described.
		At the cultural level a less obvious, but perhaps more serious result in this respect is the social cost a society must pay, which refuses – a priori – to integrate the insights of those experiences which may transmit a transformative vision both of the individual and of the body politic.
	www.global-vision.org /dream/dreamch1.html (6739 words)

	A new calculus for treating psychotic patients (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When I was just starting in psychiatry out at Washington University, we were learned that we needed to diagnose "affective" disorders (now called mood disorders) when possible: one could treat mania with a "neuroleptic" (a "typical" antipsychotic medicine) without really helping the patient.
		Treat a psychotic mood disorder appropriately and you could save a patient from decades of mistreatment with unpleasant chemicals.
		Each psychotic episode leaves a person at least a bit (or a lot) more disabled than before, never returning to "baseline".
	www.pshrink.com /wisdom/PsychoticPts.html (341 words)

	Inside this issue... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It took a psychotic break in 1997- more than 15 years after her original bipolar diagnosis was made - to make Carrie realize something was truly amiss, even by the standards of La-La Land.
		Like the other ordeals she'd endured, from her parents' high- profile divorce when she was a toddler to her own struggles with substance abuse, Fisher ultimately chose to make her battle against bipolar disorder part of her public persona.
		Though she doesn't sit in one position, much less one place, for very long, the preoccupations and obsessions that led to her break seem as distantly past as the cinnamon-roll hairstyle favored by Princess Leia.
	www.bphope.com /wi_f04_cf.html (2772 words)

	The Introspection Rundown explained by Jeff Jacobson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The first step of the rundown is "isolate the person wholly with all attendants completely muzzled (no speech)." [1] Auditing sessions are given infrequently to search for the cause of the psychotic break during this rundown, otherwise the person is isolated in complete silence.
		Her behavior on that date was one of a person having a psychotic break, which would then require the IR.
		The actions of church members after her death indicates to me that probably the IR was poorly handled and Lisa died as a result.
	www.whyaretheydead.net /lisa_mcpherson/introspe.htm (706 words)

	Childrens Guide - Schizophrenia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Most children with schizophrenia show delays in language and other functions long before psychotic symptoms appear, usually at age seven or later.
		The schizophrenic psychosis (set of symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations that indicate loss of reality) develops gradually in children, without the sudden psychotic break that sometimes occurs in adolescents and adults.
		Psychotic features (hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking) can be seen in bipolar disorder, as well as schizophrenia.
	www.namiwisconsin.org /library/children/schizophrenia.cfm (453 words)

	FIMDM Health News Review
		The story mentions that this was a preliminary trial and explains that the idea of identifying patients at high-risk of developing a psychotic disorder and treating them with a drug like Zyprexa is still very new, controversial and has several risks, with very limited long-term benefit.
		Results from such a small number of patients would not be generalizable to a larger population of patients at high risk of developing a psychotic disorder and experiencing early symptoms of schziphrenia, which is mentioned in the story.
		Anti-psychotic drugs are not typically used in clinical practice for the prevention or reduction in severity of psychotic episodes because of the potential for harmful side effects.
	www.healthnewsreview.org /review/review.php?rid=332 (1040 words)

	psychotic depression
		A year and a half ago at the age of 30, I suffered a psychotic breakdown followed by severe depression.
		I haven't experinced psychotic symptoms in about a year now but still suffer with the depression that is somewhat controlled by medication.
		First of all, I agree that a psyhotic break is unusal at age 30 without a previous history of significant distress.
	www.medhelp.org /perl6/mentalhealth/messages/31144a.html (427 words)

	RI-200i 'Fair Game Law - Disconnection'
		Disconnection can be an ability, that is, an ability and a way to stop somebody from having a psychotic break or to stop or diminish somebody's psychotic behaviour.
		It is not actually disconnecting at all, and you can't really call it disconnection, because you continue to listen to the person and you continue to look where his bullets will land, but you don't give him any oxygen to feed the fire and you don't hand him any boxes of ammunition.
		And usually, when so handled, a person's psychotic break diminishes and a psychotic calms down remarkably.
	www.insolitology.com /topten/koostrenite/ri-200i.htm (1123 words)

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		Psychotic Disorders: Schizophrenia Mood Disorders: Anxiety disorder Social phobia.
		A student who may have a break and be escorted off campus, may be showing his first psychotic break and therefore no previous documentation.
		Anti psychotics: new drugs are better and seem to be showing good evidence of being effective.
	www.ahead.org /training/conference/2004_notes/R5.doc (1080 words)

	Gerry Armstrong--The Apollo
		The breakthrough was made on a person who, after a series of wrong indications, went into a full-blown psychotic break -- violence, destruction and all.
		The psychotic break, the last of the "unsolvable" conditions that can trap a person, has been solved.
		The person who "went into a full-blown psychotic break -- violence, destruction and all" was Bruce Welch.
	www.gerryarmstrong.org /50grand/writings/historical/apollo.html (1381 words)

	My sister had an "Acute Psychotic Break" - Page 2 - HealthBoards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I've been diagnosed with major depression with psychotic features (along with many other things) so just because she had a psychotic episode doesn't mean that she's schizophrenic.
		I did that for security reasons because I totally trust her, we live together, and I know she wouldn't let anything happen to me that I wouldn't want (like being sent to a particular hospital that I refuse to go back to, or ECT and things like that).
		But the truth is that as it stands, if she is of legal age then her medical information is hers and hers alone to share...
	www.healthboards.com /boards/showthread.php?p=1684196&highlight=ativan (1385 words)

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