Hallucinations



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When people start hallucinating (seeing or hearing things) or become delusional, their diagnosis could be psychotic depression, a combination of depression and psychosis. Psychotic depression is the severe end of the depression spectrum, says Dr. Schwartz. “People with this condition are at a fairly high risk of suicide or of doing something harmful because they are driven by delusion—they need to be treated with antidepressant and anti-psycotic medications.” Read about what it’s like to have schizophrenia.