Are they Same…???
Just confused…
give me Example if U know…!!
thanks…!!!
Positive symptoms and Psychosis from SZ are the same thing.
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I disagree with wave. I don’t have positive symptoms but have been psychotic.
Psychosis is thinking you can fly and jumping off a building.
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I think psychosis is just losing contact with reality. So it could be thinking you can fly, but it could also just be being so delusional and/or hallucinating so much that you’ve lost touch with what is real.
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Psychosis is when you think that you can survive anything, because you have angels watching over you.
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Isn’t positive symptoms a symptom that causes you to do something you previously would not before sz…while negative symptoms causes you to NOT be able to do something. Like positive symptoms are add ons while negative takes away. So therefore psychosis is often a positive symptom. @everhopeful can you give me an example of your psychosis that is NOT a positive symptom?
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Psychosis - hallucinations and delusions - is a positive symptom. Disordered thought and odd movements (like pacing) are others.
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There are positive symptoms. Then there is psychosis. Psychosis is where you lose touch with reality.
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True that can be an aspect of psychosis so you’re right but I also consider hallucinations and delusions to be aspects of psychosis. 
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An example of my psychosis that isn’t a positive symptom is believing that I couldn’t die and wanting to put that to the test all while just having lost touch with reality in general. Living in a dream world basically.
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I lived in a dream world for soooo long I know exactly where you’re coming from. It was the onset before the onset, I will call it!
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Yes, but psychosis is categorized as a positive symptom, clinically. Not a good symptom, but a symptom not found in the general population.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml
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Right, but psychosis isn’t just something that happens to schizophrenics. So it’s a separate thing to the positive symptoms of schizophrenia.
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Do you mean that it’s not exclusive to schizophrenia? I agree, it happens in many different disorders. But as a symptom of schizophrenia, it’s categorized as a positive one, just like avolition and anhedonia are negative symptoms, even though they also are not exclusive to schizophrenia.
I’m not arguing my point of view. I’m merely stating the clinical definition.
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OK, according to this positive symptoms are a subset of psychosis and not the other way around.
http://www.earlypsychosis.ca/pages/curious/symptoms-of-psychosis
There seems to be conflicting views as to the clinical definition.
I might ask my psychiatrist next time for the nit picking clinical low down.
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All right, pax! 
I don’t like arguing with you, @everhopeful.
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Sorry, I didn’t mean to sound like I was arguing. Pax!
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When you become psychotic, you develop positive symptoms.
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