What Is a Shared Psychotic Disorder? A shared psychotic disorder is a rare type of mental illness in which a healthy person starts to take on the delusions of someone who has a psychotic disorder ...

Psychotic depression is a subtype of major depression that occurs when a severe depressive illness includes some form of psychosis. The psychosis could be hallucinations (such as hearing a voice ...

Kids playing too many video games and spending too much time online has long concerned parents, but new research has found that these activities may be associated with psychotic experiences.

Our editors also may be in touch with follow-up questions. While often sensationalized in movies and television, a psychotic “break” is more accurately described as an episode of psychosis ...

Psychotic breaks, even though they are deemed mental versus physical, are not under our control and discretion. As a control freak for quite some time in my life, I have always been an overly ...

The recent sentencing of Bryn Spejcher, the 33-year-old who stabbed a man she was dating more than 100 times during a cannabis-induced psychotic episode, has brought national attention to what ...

Psychotic-like experiences, such as suspiciousness and unusual thoughts, are common among adolescents who are referred to adolescent psychiatric care. The symptoms are often associated with ...

Previous research showed that children who took stimulants for ADHD were at increased risk for psychotic symptoms. After adjusting for confounding factors, researchers did not identify a causal link.

Of the many harms attributed to cannabis use, few have garnered as much attention as the frightening association of cannabis with psychosis. From the 1936 exploitation film “Reefer Madness” to ...

There was no evidence to support a causal relationship between stimulant prescription and psychotic experiences in children, ages 9-14 years, treated for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder.

Prescription stimulants taken during childhood for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do not cause psychosis, according to a new study published on ...