How does a psycotic disorder affect someone?

Answer 1

A psychotic disorder afects everyone differently. Typicall when some is labelled as psychotic, they are having hallucinations or delusions. The difference?
Hallucination - something you see, hear, smell, taste, feel that other people aren't able to validate existing. The most common halucinations are those involving religion, sex, and politics (not necessarily in that order). For example, I have cared for a patient who heard God talking to them and saw 666 written all over everything and could smell the burning of Hell and the smell of church incense.

Delusion - the person believes something that is clearly unrealistic. For example, I have cared for a patient who was dead set on believing that the local police were in cahoots with her neighbors and they were all trying to kill her. She said they are tapping her phoneline and looking into her windows and so she was forced to go live in her basement because they took over her upstairs and had their secret base against her up there. She never actually saw or heard anything, but this was what she believed. As irrational as it may sound to you or I, she was absolutely convinced that this is what was happening and no one could tell her otherwise.

So as you can see, I only described two patients who were labelled psychotic and they were very different. It is sometimes hard to tell when someone is psychotic, but once they are diagnosed there are medications that help with the hallucination and/or delusions. The problem, most often people stop taking the medications and then the symptoms resurface until they get back on them. These patients typically are in and out of inpatient psychiatric units or hospitals in order to stabilize them on their medications. However, with good medicaton adherence, this can really be avoided! Hope this information helps!

Answer 2

Well I don't know about everyone else. But I my self have a hard time of telling what is real and what ain't real. At times I get so confused and mixed up I cant even got to the bathroom I do have incontinence for my blatter and cant tell when I have to go so I wear diapers but if I get real confused or mixed up I do the other in my diaper because I cant think to go to the bathroom. I see thing that are not real like little brown catchers or things don't know what they are but i see them. But then just like NOW i feel fine not having any problems at all. But I never know when it will start again. I always dread it because it really mixes me up...

Answer 3

Actually there are many types of psychotic disorders, so how it affects a person depends on what type of disorder it is.
Generally speaking a psychotic disorder makes a person behave differently than they would if they did not suffer from that disorder.

Answer 4

It makes them crazy.