[Daonnachd]

A fascinating study.

https://www.livescience.com/61101-ps...cinations.html

[emgreen]

Interesting article. Thanks. Is it possible that bipolar disorder is part conditioning...just as the article claims psychosis is? Food for thought.

[Guiness187055]

Interesting

[tecomsin]

Thank you for sharing that article. I am wondering if they have reversed cause and effect though. The article seems to imply that it's the interpretation and associations with psychotic phenomena that make a person clinically ill or not, but it could simply be that people who are clinically ill have negative life experiences associated with psychosis so they react to fake psychotic symptoms differently based on their life experience.

Still I am always happy to see some out of the box thinking on research in mental illness.

[Nammu]

So pestamistic thoughts worsen symptoms and require more outside help. I wonder if this can explain some cultural bias too?

[Gabyunbound]

This is very interesting. It sounds like those who were more distressed by the psychotic symptoms had some paranoia thrown in; maybe that's why they were so distressed? Or perhaps they were just more prone to thinking that others were out to get them (in a non-clinical way).

On the other hand, I wonder if this points to a possibility that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (or perhaps another form of psychotherapy) might -however counterintuitively- help with psychosis. According to the article, the way you think of these experiences changes the way you experience them. It sounds to me like therapy would help with this.

[mindwrench]

I think the article makes some good observations. I think some people with psychosis operate between the different types on a variable basis. It's easier when a symptom first comes on to say it isn't real or that is is a benign coincidence. If the symptom/s persist it can erode the countermeasure beliefs and ideas and shift the perspective from "everything is still okay" to a "there is real danger" view. Other factors such as stress/anxiety level, amount of sleep, etc. can make the shift in perspective of psychotic symptoms change faster/slower.