The above list is only a few of the possible symptoms associated with what might become a nervous breakdown or psychotic break.
It has been suggested that OCD symptoms may also represent a defence against the anxiety symptoms of an acute psychotic breakdown and a small number of people presenting with OCD later develop schizophrenia.
"Many agitated people on the brink of a psychotic break suffer from severe insomnia.""Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry.
Although this can only be identified retrospectively, brief psychotic disorder is often the diagnosis that was originally used when an individual (who later develops schizophrenia) experiences a first "psychotic break" from more typical functioning.
 See also: Anxiety, Suffering, Symptom, Depression, Death
  
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