In addition, maladaptive-coping strategies such as avoidance or safety behaviors play a particularly important role in the maintenance of the psychotic symptoms. The person searches for a meaning of this anomalous experiences and the coping process with severe anxiety lead delusions and voices. On the other hand, the persons who develop psychosis in the end are more anxious about and more preoccupied with their beliefs and experiences. The persons who are confronted with anomalous experiences and do not need to seek help are the ones who generally do not overevaluate these kinds of experiences. The rate of psychotic experiences that cause seeking treatment ranges from 3 to 8%. In community, every one person of four reports at least one psychotic-like experience. These kinds of thoughts and perceptions are called as psychotic-like experiences, to the extent that they do not necessitate getting any support or treatment. It is well known that healthy people may also experience mild psychotic symptoms like delusions of being watched or talked about, or auditory and visual hallucinations as a result of stress, drugs, trauma, and sleep deprivation. As a result, severe mental illnesses like psychosis and schizophrenia were categorized as “disorders which are untreatable with psychological methods.” Today, models suggesting the existence of a continuity between normal beliefs, anomalous experiences, and psychotic symptoms are accepted. But this idea has only increased the stigmatization and labeling.
In the beginning, the common idea was that the psychosis is completely different from the other disorders.
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