The characteristic feature is the loss of contact with reality, with delusional ideas being very common in this disorder (extravagant convictions that someone real or imaginary wants to harm you, or is chasing you, or gives you supernatural powers, or similar) and hallucinations. auditory (the person hears voices, usually a voice that comments on their thoughts and behaviors). Also disorganized or incomprehensible language during acute phases. It usually begins with a psychotic break that requires psychiatric hospitalization and is followed, to a greater or lesser degree, by negative symptoms for 6 or more months (social isolation, lack of expression of emotions, general impoverishment of behavior and language, etc.) . The work of the clinical psychologist is aimed at the comprehensive psychosocial rehabilitation of the patient, once pharmacologically stabilized, and counseling the family.
The imagined conviction refers to facts that could be true, such as the couple being in love with another, that they are following them, that they want to poison them, that they are hiding an illness from them, etc. No matter how much it is explained or evidence is provided against his mistake, the person remains delirious. Apart from the specific repercussions of delirium, the rest of the person's areas and activities remain preserved and his behavior is not unusual.
Also called folie à deux, it is a rare disorder in which a person develops a delusional idea after maintaining a close relationship with another person who had a previous delusional idea with similar content to the other, so that they end up sharing the delusion.
Episode or outbreak similar to that of schizophrenia, but lasting less than one month and with complete recovery of the state prior to the outbreak.
Luís Maestre i Funtané. Tots els Drets Reservats. Elaborat per Sytel Media
