What Is a Shared Psychotic Disorder? A shared psychotic disorder is a rare type of mental illness in which a healthy person starts to take on the delusions of someone who has a psychotic disorder ...

When you have a psychotic break, you are still the real, authentic you. Your heart, your fears, your soul, your emotions, and your own personality are all still there, experiencing everything.

To further complicate matters, a longitudinal study argued that sub-clinical levels of psychotic disorders are associated with development of anxiety, emotional and substance-related disorders.