Case 2. A 47-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital on May 15, 1953, with a diagnosis of manic psychosis. Premonitory depressive and hypomanic symptoms had appeared during the summer of 1952.

The term "manic-depressive illness" or psychosis was coined by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in the late nineteenth century, originally referring to all kinds of mood disorder. German ...

As noted previously, substance abuse and psychotic illness can co-occur, as in a youngster with an incipient manic episode who ... who present with psychotic depression.

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They can occur during mania or depressive episodes ... Hallucinations do often happen as a symptom of psychosis or a disconnect from reality. Other main symptoms of psychosis include: delusions ...

Drugs often associated with agitation and psychosis include anticholinergic ... cause of clinical presentation: dementia, mania, substance abuse, depression, or schizophrenia.

A MUM was found dead after being given one hour of “unsupervised leave” from hospital. Abigail Menoret had been suffering ...

It was when I didn’t recognise my own child that I realised something was seriously wrong, writes Jenny Pagdin – and this is ...

Schizoaffective disorder is a chronic mental health condition characterized by symptoms of both schizophrenia and mood ...

A mother who thought she was dead and stuck "in limbo" while suffering from a rare mental illness says there is a shortage of beds for others in the same situation. Kayleigh Avery, from Sunderland, ...

Lindsay Clancy, 32, is believed to have been suffering from severe postpartum depression when she allegedly strangled Cora, ...