I attended class at the downriver campus on Monday, October 8th 2012 to attend a lecture by Kathleen Brazzle. Ms. Brazzle lectured about medications and different psychological conditions. She spoke of both generic and first tier medications while describing different conditions such as: psychosis, delusions, thought disorders, depression and hallucination. Psychosis is a symptom of feature of mental illness typically characterized by radical changes in personality, impaired functioning and a distorted or non-existent sense of objective reality. The person suffering from psychosis typically has a loss of contact with reality; the condition of psychosis causes them to not see things realistically and thus distorting real life. The beliefs for them are not based on life or reality. They often struggle to think clearly and often lack insight about things. A person suffering from psychosis often does not realize that anything is wrong with them or simply disbelieves the truth about reality. Delusions are a false, fixed, odd or unusual belief that the person has. There are different types of delusions: delusions of paranoia, grandiose delusions, somatic delusions and psychotic delusions. Delusions are typically classified in two categories as primary and secondary. Hallucinations are a problem with sensory perception with the absence of an outside stimulus. Often hallucinations can be visual or auditory. Example of a visual hallucination would be seeing a person or object that isn’t really there, but they see it. An auditory hallucination would be when a person hears voices but nobody is talking. Auditory hallucinations are very typical and scary, especially if the voices are telling the person to hurt themselves or someone else. The voice is often negative and commanding and because of this auditory hallucinations are very serious. Because to the