Guide To The Major Types Of Depression

Depressive Psychosis

Depressive psychosis is a subtype of major depression where an individual has a component of psychosis along with their severe depression. Psychosis is a term used to describe when an individual has a break with reality in the form of hearing voices, hallucinations, delusions, and intense feelings of failure, worthlessness, or other similar emotions. Around one of every four individuals admitted into hospitals due to depression are affected by this form of the illness. Depressive psychosis differs from other types of depression because the patient loses touch with reality, where they do not in other forms of depression. The delusions and hallucinations that characterize depressive psychosis are usually in line with the themes of depression. Symptoms of psychotic depression include agitation, constipation, insomnia, physical immobility, anxiety, hypochondria, intellectual impairment, and hallucinations.

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