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If a friend of yours tells you that she can see ghosts, she probably is saying the truth, but don’t get alarmed here, it is not an actual ghost, it is just a hallucination that this patient of Psychosis sees. Psychosis is a very interesting disorder where an individual suffering from suffers from complete loss of reality. These are the kind of people you frequently find in mental asylums, but these are the more extreme cases of this disorder. The patient starts creating an entire new world with her own imagination. These patients will suffer from delusions and hallucinations that the patient is unable to distinguish real and imaginary visuals. The psychiatric patient also may show an unstable behavior that makes daily activities quite hard. The first thing that a person developing psychosis loses is the contact with her social life.
The cause for psychosis is because of multiple cases such as illness of the inner physiologic system or a disease to the nervous system. A few poisons also cause permanent psychosis for a short period of time. Many people push aside psychosis as a temporary state and not as a disease but there is a limit to the time scale that hallucinations last. Hallucinations can be from any of the six senses or may be a combination of multiple senses that can take the form of anything, or can sound like anything. It can also give the feeling of someone touching or hitting the patient. In some cases patients also have experienced tasting and smelling certain things without even ever having knowledge of them. The delusions that a patient experiences are quite paranoid in nature and will cut off her from people or even ever getting out of the house. Many drugs that are psychoactive in nature are used to calm these individuals down. Many of the drugs used are illegal in many states.
