Psychotic depression is a subtype of major depression that occurs when a severe depressive illness includes some form of psychosis.
The psychosis could be
- hallucinations
such as hearing a voice telling you that you are no good or worthless,
- delusions
such as, intense feelings of worthlessness, failure, or having committed a sin
- some other break with reality.
Psychotic depression affects roughly one out of every four people admitted to the hospital for depression.
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