Difference between Pychosis and Schizophrenia?

[blakismom]

Can anyone tell me what the difference is between Psychosis and Schizophrenia? I am kind of confused about the two. Any Insight would be helpful.

[ILADVOCATE]

You asked for my commentary but that post by Corlenbelspar explained it completely. Psychosis is a loss of reality testing that can range from delusional to a complete loss of reality but it can be caused by many things. Schizophrenia is a specific psychiatric disability. In it besides psychosis, one has negative symptoms which is a lack of social functioning and ability to understand people and cognitive symptoms which is a loss in ability to process information and understand it. If you want full information obviously go to a clinical site or ask your psychiatrist. Long before recovery I did a presentation for this in college and as I have schizoaffective I was experiencing some of these symptoms at the same time but they had improved with the then new atypical antipsychotics or I wouldn't have been able to do it at all.

[paranoid_cataclysm]

From what I understand Schizophrenia is a disorder which causes things such as psychosis in various different forms while psychosis in itself can be a symptom of a disease or disorder.  One is a disorder and another is a symptom.

[adel_ezz]

i am not schizo, but i think, psychosis is easy to realise it by others. when i have it during my mania my family notices how i confuse things or imagine wrong things yet i am sure of them myself so for them i have no perception of reality, whereas for schizo i suppose it's me who gets confused by the difference between imagination and correct perception, like hearing voices so i feel there is something wrong from the beginning i.e. my perception is not necessarily reflected upon the others. is this right?

in psychosis there are also hallucinations or delusions so there is a loss of contact with reality so it accompanies bizarre behavior. so it also overlaps with schizophrenia. this is why when manic i take antipsychotics that are the meds written for schizo.., so they say when a bipolar is manic he approaches the territory of schizophrenia. a valid question can a bipolar become schizophrenic eventually or with age, i.e. i know i had neurosis OCD now i have psychosis BP can it develop in the future to schiz..

there is also cogitive confusion. ILADVOCATE surely can give us a lesson here.

i better wait until i am manic to give you exact description. hope not
damn it !!