mental health disorders
Brief Psychotic Disorder
Introduction
The symptoms of brief psychotic disorder resemble the delusions, hallucinations, or other psychotic Symptoms , but they last for a much shorter time (from 1 day to 1 month). People with brief psychotic disorder have at least one of the following symptoms: Delusions (false beliefs that people maintain against strong evidence) Hallucinations Disorganized speech Very disorganized or catatonic (immobile or unresponsive) behavior Doctors diagnose brief psychotic disorder if the person's symptoms last less than 1 month and another disorder does not better account for symptoms. Other disorders that can produce similar symptoms include adverse drug effects, medical problems such as a brain tumor or temporal lobe epilepsy, Schizophrenia , and Treatment of brief psychotic disorder is similar to Treatment and requires a doctor's supervision and sometimes short-term treatment with Relapse is common, but people with brief psychotic disorder typically function well between episodes and have few or no symptoms. 