Newsletter Articles | April 1, 2012
How Do Consumers & Families Experience The First Episode Of Psychosis? Results From NAMI’s 2011 Survey
How Do Consumers & Families Experience The First Episode Of Psychosis? Results From NAMI’s 2011 Survey
In July 2011, NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) conducted an online survey of individuals who have experienced psychosis firsthand or directly witnessed the experience of a family member or friend.
Psychosis is not a diagnosis but a symptom or set of symptoms that can have many different causes. Psychosis may be transient, intermittent, short term or part of a longer term psychiatric condition. Early identification and evaluation of the onset of psychosis is an important health concern as outcomes are improved with . . .