{"id":480,"date":"2024-01-08T12:44:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T12:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/?page_id=480"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:01:54","slug":"psychosis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/handbook\/diagnosis\/psychosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psychosis is when people lose some contact with reality.<\/p>\n<p>The 2 main symptoms of Psychosis are:<\/p>\n<p>Hallucinations \u2013 where a person hears, sees and, in some cases, feels, smells or tastes things that do not exist outside their mind but can feel very real to the person affected by them; a common hallucination is hearing voices.<\/p>\n<p>Delusions \u2013 where a person has string beliefs that are not shared by others; a common delusion is someone believing there is a conspiracy to harm them.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of hallucinations and delusional thinking can cause severe distress and a change in behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Experiencing the symptoms of Psychosis is often referred to as having a psychotic episode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/mental-health\/conditions\/psychosis\">www.nhs.uk\/mental-health\/conditions\/psychosis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychosis is when people lose some contact with reality. The 2 main symptoms of Psychosis are: Hallucinations \u2013 where a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":466,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-page-vertical-nav.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-480","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480\/revisions\/627"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/carers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}