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What I would like to know is how psychosis and the brain works. I've heard from sources who work in the field that an overdosis of chronic stress and lack of sleep can also cause a cognitive decline that ultimately leads to an irreperably psychotic state without any hope for recovery.

In such a state people are sincerely believing that, for example, aliens exist and they are the only humans and everyone else is a robot.

I've heard that people who develop stress/sleep deprived related psychosis over a period of two years are already sensitive towards developing it. The same people also should not take drugs, for example, such as weed.

My question simply is: when would it become burnout and when would it become psychosis?

(I secretly hope we have a medical professional reading this)

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The real answer to this question is we don’t know, because we don’t fully understand psychosis. We know that drug induced psychosis is different from schizophrenic psychosis, and we understand that schizophrenia is really a degenerative condition that can get progressively worse if not treated; however even that understanding is limited and ‘coarse’. I have not heard of or seen exhaustion-related psychosis so can’t comment, but there are no simple answers, there are lots of people spending their entire working lives trying to better understand it but we have a long way to go

You know who is constantly stressed and doesn’t get good sleep? People who become homeless.

...Homelessness creates perfect conditions for mental health issues to arise, and yet many tend to think people are only homeless because they were already mentally ill.

Citation...?

Regarding weed [1], regarding stress/sleep deprivation. I've heard that from a mental health professional. That's what he saw in the couple of patients he had to treat.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...

how nice of you to finally specify a drug instead of making a blanket claim.

It’s been interesting in recent years to see the slow disintegration of the taboo against the study of psychedelics as potential treatment for mental health issues.

To me it's obvious that weed can accelerate psychosis since it comes up quite quickly when researching about weed. I thought it was relatively well-known in the HN community as well.

I also said that my other information was from people working in the field. If I say something like that, then I implicitly mean that I couldn't find it on the internet, which I find an interesting thing in itself.

Please don't be a jerk on HN.

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