Psychotic depression?

can anyone explain psychotic depression to me better? i talked to someone about some weird stuff and they said what i was describing sounded like psychotic depression.

Psychotic depression is simply a major depression that also includes delusions and/or hallucinations. Delusions are false beliefs that are firmly held despite strong evidence to the contrary. Common delusions in psychotic depression are of persecution, guilt, poverty, nihilism and somatic abnormality. Hallucinations are usually experienced as voices that make accusatory or derogatory comments to the person. Less commonly there may be visual, olfactory (smell) or tactile (touch) hallucinations. Severity of major depression is graded as mild, moderate, severe without psychotic features or severe with psychotic features.

well the easy answer is to see professional help

but you also need to let your family and close friends know what your going through; otherwise, they might not!

hope that helps

ck
you can read more about at the links below. however, seeing a psychiatrist would be best, in case medication is needed. and also, be careful of all that you read. sometimes, too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. good luck to you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/psychotic_d...
http://concernedcounseling.com/communiti...
Roughly 25 percent of people who are admitted to the hospital for depression suffer from what's called psychotic depression. In addition to the symptoms of depression, psychotic depression includes some features of psychosis -- like hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that aren't really there) or delusions (irrational thoughts and fears).

http://www.clevelandclinic.org/health/he...

Symptoms that occur commonly in psychotically depressed patients include:

Anxiety
Agitation
Hypochondria
Insomnia
Physical immobility
Constipation
Intellectual impairment
Psychosis
See those websites, and enter "psychotic depression" in your search engine. Go to http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris... on page 2; read that page, and check out lithium via page 5, and RU486 at www.drugs.com