What is pseudo psychosis?

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As the name itself says, pseudo (psychosis), which means false, is not a form of psychosis, but instead, pseudo psychosis is when someone is convinced that they are suffering from psychosis when they are not. This doesn’t mean that the person is pretending or faking the symptoms of psychosis such as hallucinations, “hearing voices” or other forms of being completely detached from reality.

With pseudo psychosis, it’s more the case that the person is so terrified that he or she is “going mad” that he unconcisenessly turns that fear into symptoms that are very similar to that of real psychosis. Of course, this is easily detected by professionals. Usually the most obvious sign is that person suffering from real psychosis completely believes that symptoms such as “hearing voices” are real, while in the other case the person is more afraid that he or she is going to become “mad”.