ABSTRACT Aim This study aimed to investigate the association between cannabis use prior to enrollment in a First Episode Psychosis (FEP) program and prognosis, including severity of psychiatric symptoms, type of antipsychotic treatment prescribed, and clinical recovery. Methods A longitudinal cohort study was conducted on patients aged 18–35 diagnosed with affective and non‐affective psychosis...
Background and Hypothesis: Paranoia is commonly conceptualized along a continuum ranging from transient suspiciousness and mistrust to fixed persecutory delusions. However, similar paranoid contents may differ in conviction, flexibility, self-reference, distress, functional impact, and embeddedness in broader changes of self, agency, and world-experience. We synthesized qualitative evidence on...