Symptoms usually include changes in your thoughts, feelings and behaviours, making it hard for other people to understand you. In order to try to understand the experience of psychosis it is useful to group together some of the more characteristic symptoms. Problems in thinking You may have difficulty organising your thoughts, everyday thoughts become confused or don t join up properly. Sentences are unclear or don t make sense. You may have difficulty concentrating, following a conversation or remembering things.
Thoughts seem to speed up or slow down.
You may believe that your thoughts are being interfered with in some way. It is common for a person experiencing a psychotic episode to hold false beliefs known as delusions. You may be so convinced of your delusion, that the most logical argument cannot make you change their mind. It seems real to you but does not seem real to other people. For example someone may be convinced from the way the cars are parked outside their house that they are being watched by the police.