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Taking more time to consider psychosis in the mental health field
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I feel like there should be a lot more work done with how psychosis is presented in the mental health field. I think many professionals and those who are studying mental health (whether to be a therapist, psychiatrist, or some other similar profession) simply don't know how to deal with psychotic patients, because what they're shown of it in their years of studying often just isn't realistic to many actual psychotic people and/or isn't enough to encompass the diverse amount of psychosis they might see in psychotic patients. Becoming a mental health professional can take years of studying, so many days of training, and countless hoops to jump through to be considered "ready"; and yet, even with all of this, many are still completely unprepared to deal with a psychotic patient who doesn't fit a very specific, very predictable narrative.
I think it would be a lot more beneficial to the field as a whole if professionals had to take more time to study the specifics of psychosis and how to handle a variety of different psychotic scenarios or patients, as psychosis is a fairly common experience in a wide range of disorders (and even present in otherwise perfectly healthy people) and yet it seems to be very overlooked and ignored.
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Taking more time to consider psychosis in the mental health field - by Eridan - 12-02-2025, 05:37 AM

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