Psychosis in depression is not rare between 10 to 25 percent of patients hospitalized for serious depression, especially elderly patients, develop psychotic symptoms.
It is a serious illness during which a person suffers from the dangerous combination of depression mood and psychosis.
Symptoms of psychosis may include delusions (irrational beliefs that cannot be resolved with rational explanations) and hallucinations (seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or tasting or smelling things or people that are not present).
Psychotic depression is more commonly associated with feelings of guilt, worthlessness, and suicidal ideation in addition to and highly correlated with symptoms of psychosis.
Because psychotic individuals cannot distinguish reality from fantasy, their behavior is unpredictable, and cannot accurately assess of their safety.
Michael Shepherd, British psychopharmacology in 1959 pointed out that there were hospital depression and then there were ‘large group of loosely termed ‘neurotic’, ‘reactive’ or ‘exogenous’ depression often admixed with clinical manifestation of anxiety.
Psychotic depression
