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Brief Psychotic Disorder
Title: Brief Psychotic Disorder
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 480 | Pages: 2.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Brief Psychotic Disorder
Another type of psychotic disorder is a brief psychotic disorder. This type of psychotic disorder lasts for at least one day, but not longer than one month. It has a very rapid onset. The strange part of this disease is that there is little or no forewarning that the disorder is coming. Though eventually it will seem as if the disease never existed. The person will return to their prior state of functioning. There are …showed first 75 words of 480 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 480 total…brief psychoses. Developing countries suffer from this disorder ten times as much as industrialized nations. Many studies show it is more prevalent among the lower-class. Obviously, with brief psychotic episodes the risk of mortality also increases. Interestingly, this disorder is two times higher in women. It is also much more common in people around the age of forty. Fifty to eighty percent of patients have no further psychotic episodes after the original brief psychotic episode.
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