DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2016.v04i09.012

Pages: 668-669

Psychotic cases are now-a-days increasing in several parts of India mostly associated with marital life. Psychosis leads to several conditions which alters the physiology of patient. A person experiencing psychosis may not know which of their feelings and thoughts are real. The exact cause of psychosis is not always clear. One of the common conditions associated with psychosis is dyspnea. Dyspnea is a feeling which is associated with impaired breathing. In general dyspnea is evoked by emotional conditions of the patient. It may sometimes aggravate unusual feelings in some patients like severe cough and emesis. Psychosis can happen to anyone and it can be treated. A report on 32 year old female patient with shortness of breath from past one month which is aggravated from last four days with cough, suicidal thoughts and hallucinations who was admitted in psychiatry department in a south Indian tertiary care teaching hospital is here with discussed in detail.