What is Psychotic Depression?

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✨ UNLOCK YOUR BRAIN'S FULL POTENTIAL! My free 2-minute quiz reveals your unique "Brain Operating System" and gives you a personalized guide to master your focus, handle stress, and perform at your best. Take the Quiz → https://drmarks.co/BrainQuiz-yt Major depression is an illness where you can have a depressed or irritable mood and a number of other symptoms that affect your sleep, appetite, energy level, outlook on life and so on. You can be mildly to moderately to severely depressed. We usually look at the level of functioning to estimate the severity of the depression. How are you functioning in your personal, work and school life? Someone who is mildly depressed may have trouble getting out of bed and have a hard time finding joy in things, but they still go to work everyday and take care of things in the home. The severely depressed person may not be able to get out of bed despite the fact that there are babies in the house crying for food. Even having people or finances depend on you isn’t enough to get you going. Why? Because it’s not simply a choice. When depression hits that hard, it talks over your will. Depression can also become so severe that you lose touch with reality and develop psychotic symptoms. These psychotic symptoms are delusions and hallucinations. However, delusions tend to be more common than hallucinations. And the delusions can take on a persecutory or nihilistic tone. Persecutory is when you feel attacked in some way. You may feel like peopl

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