difference between psicosis skizophrenia and paranoia?

Answer 1

Psychoses are types of psychiatric disorders featuring psychotic symptoms (e.g., behaivor/thought which is out of touch with reality). To say a person is "psychotic" is to say that they are out of touch with reality (e.g., hallucinations, delusions).

Shizophrenia is a certain type of psychosis. There are several types of schizophrenia, one of which is "paranoid schizophrenia".

Paranoia, when it reaches pathological levels, can become psychotic feature. Generally speaking, paranoia occurs when a person has an unreasonable, unremitting suspicion/belief that he/she is in danger or is being persecuted in some systematic fashion (usually from other people or groups of people).

Answer 2

psychosis is a general name from a serious mental condition characterised by a split from reality, schizoprenia is a particular type of psychosis, paranoia is a serious mental state characterised by suspicion of others a very serious type of schizophrenia is a paranoid schizophrenic such an person may be a threat to anybody within the delusions of the the paranoid schizophrenic as he/she may try to harm, seeing others as a real threat

Answer 3

Well, you only spelled paranoia right, for one. Schizophrenia can be diagnosed when there is psychosis present. Psychosis is characterized by a marked detatchment from reality, taking the form of hallucinations, distored thinking and/or paranoia.

Answer 4

psychosis is a general term for madness-schizophrenia is a mental illness,paranoia is mainly a symptom of mental disturbance or illness

Answer 5

paranoia, is where you are very suspicious of everyone...physcosis,..schziophrenic,..is horrible, because the person becomes dilussional, and if it accompanied by paranoia also, it can cause the person to react in a defense mode, and possibly hurt some innocent person, to 'protect' themselves..