Difference between psychosis and neurosis requires to be understood, In our day to day life, we do encounter these. Both are increasingly assuming virulent form, so to say.
A person suffering with psychosis will see everything as somebody else’s fault, whereas someone suffering with neurosis will see it as his own fault. A person who is limping or is lame, may be so due to two kinds of reasons. One is that he has no physical disability but has some kind of obsession against walking straight. He would behave like a physically disabled , without any apparent disability, as the core disability would lie in the psyche of the person. This means he is psychotic. But would not see any error on his part and would rather find fault in the rest of the world that walks straight.
On the other hand, one having real physical disability would recognise his limitation. He will never call a straight walk wrong, but would rather covet it.
A psychotic knows that he knows though he knows not.
A neurotic knows that he doesn't know.
This ordeal of knowing or not knowing, with or without knowledge of the fact in of knowing or not knowing, is material . We may easily apply it in our day to day life to check, as we often check our sugar level or B.P, whether there is some or much element of mental issue within and, if so, what? Psychosis or neurosis . The former is more difficult as the one who incidentally diagnoses the sufferer would stand condemned at the very outset by the ailing subject.
So, better take care.
(More to follow)