>An 18 years old female student, without any past psychiatric (including the substance use disorders) or medical history, with no family history of mental illness, was brought to the emergency by family members for irrelevant talk and bizarre behavior.
>Exploration of history revealed that the patient was apparently maintaining well before vaccination and there was no apparent psychosocial stressor prior to vaccination, nor did the patient have any vaccine hesitancy.
>Over the next 3 to 4 days, she started to remain irritable, talk irrelevantly, try to run away from home, voiced delusions of persecution and reference, and reported visual hallucinations of seeing Gods and demons.
>After excluding other causes and in view of the temporal correlation with the use of Covishield vaccine a diagnosis of vaccine associated psychosis was considered.

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