A mental disorder is a diagnosis by a mental health professional of a person whose behaviours may cause suffering or difficult to function in life.
What is Psychosis?
A severe mental disorder where thoughts and emotions are so weakened that contact is lost with normal reality.
Two most common symptoms of psychosis are
Hallucinations that can involve all senses. People can feel, hear, smell and see things that are not there. Most public known hallucination is seeing things.
Delusions which is where someone believes things that when looked at in a realistic way are not true.
1 in 100 people will experience psychoses episode in their lifetime (www.mind.org.uk, n.d.). Mental illness is darkened by people in general …show more content…
Usually, people in the group are facing similar problems
Individual Cognitive Behaviour therapy (CBT) is a talking therapy that can help you achieve your problems by altering the way you think and behave.
Vocational counselling is a set of services designed to change the skills and capability to practice an ability in a productive way. Those born with physical or cognitive damages are taught how to perform in the workplace taking into consideration their abilities and challenges.
2. Impact of therapy
Recent findings suggest that 40% move to recovery after therapy (Psychotherapy)
Patients who went through the cognitive intervention showed a larger rise in self-esteem than those patients who received usual care. (The Effects of Cognitive Therapy on Hallucinations in Patients with Schizophrenia, n.d.)
After recovery a person will have a sense of control with psychosis and have a way to deal with it
Changing a certain part of their lifestyle to keep the recovery safe. Someone just feeling like their own self again is a huge part of recovering. By the illness not being the hidden part of their daily life and by being social again. (earlypsychosis,