Page 1 of 1: Stressful events provide clues to psychosis delusion content

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Links have been found between the stressful events experienced by patients prior to their first episode of psychosis and the types of delusions and auditory hallucinations they suffer due to their condition.

The stressful life events occurring in the year before psychosis onset in patients lives, along with the themes - persecutory, depressive, and grandiose - associated with their delusions and auditory hallucinations

Intrusive events, such as physical assault, being threatened with a knife, rape, and sexual disease infection,are associated with persecutory delusions and voices

In contrast, depressive delusions are linked to danger events, while depressive auditory hallucinations are associated with intrusive events, which may be due to overlap with persecutory voice content.

However, there was no indication that loss events, including loss, self-esteem, and humiliation events, were associated with the development of depressive psychotic themes.

"Helping an individual to 'make sense' of how previous events relate to current symptoms should reduce anxiety, depression, and feelings of powerlessness, all of which seem to be associated with psychological appraisal."

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