Psychosis and its classification
Under the psychosis implies a severe mental disorder, conjugate with pronounced disorders of mental activities in the form of nonsense, hallucinations, perpletion of consciousness. Almost always, this condition is accompanied by affective (based on exciting extreme) behavioral features. A man suffering from psychosis needs urgent psychiatric care.
Psychosites are exogenous and endogenous.
Exogenous psyche disorders arise as a result of the impact on the person of any factors of its environment. These include:
- Card and brain injuries;
- acute infectious diseases;
- body intoxication by drugs or alcoholic beverages;
- The specific state of the feminine psyche after the birth of a child;
- Diseases of internal organs and systems.
Endogenous psychoses are caused by the reasons of internal, personal, character. Very often, the origins of such disorders can be found in the family of the patient. Depending on the external clinical picture, these psychosis are classified into the following types:
- Hallucinatory psychosis;
- crazy;
- Hallucinatorious-delusional;
- Affective (good or bad mood is combined with strong excitement);
- schizoaffective (strong excitement on schizophrenia);
- hysterical;
- alcoholic.
Psychoses of exogenous etiology happen, as a rule, once in life - after adequate treatment, the problem is exhausted. Endogenous psyche disorders can be repeated and ultimately turn into a chronic disease.
The main symptoms of psychosis
The correction of this heavy psychological state is possible exclusively in the walls of a medical institution. Amateurness from the native patient is unacceptable: the patient can be dangerous both for himself and for people who are near him.
Timeliness - the main condition for the successful outcome of the treatment of psychosis. To facilitate the condition of the patient, combined therapy uses various psychotropic medicines (neuroleptics and antipsychotics). The medicine is chosen individually, focusing on the symptoms that in the patient behavior are dominant. The struggle for the future of man without psychosis is long: it happens that the selected drug does not bring the expected effect, then it is replaced by others and it all starts first.
Medical treatment is recognized as the most effective way of delivering a person from psychosis. Nevertheless, the doctors are often not limited to doctors. Positive results from drug therapy are well helped by psychotherapeutic sessions and work on social rehabilitation and adaptation of the patient.
With adequate treatment, a significant improvement in the state of the patient is celebrated after 6-8 weeks after its appeal. The correction of the launched psychosis is stretched for an indefinite period of time.
Psychosis: We estimate the problem objectively
MirSoveto leads answers to questions that people closely ask the others who suffer from psychosis.
Neurosis and psychosis - the same? Can the neurosis be complicated to the state of psychosis?
These disorders are absolutely independent diseases. At the heart of psychosis, the biological mechanisms are mainly lied, while neurosis occurs on the basis of intraperial conflict. Transform into psychosis a neurotic disorder cannot.
Is it possible to fully cure psychosis?
It all depends on what factor provoked the development of psychosis. For example, psychotic states that appeared against the background of severe stress, «White Higher», infections or severe physical disease are completely eliminated by timely and right medical intervention. At the same time, residual signs of the disease are not saved.
The situation is somewhat differently with the treatment of chronic psychosis that appear on the soil Schizophrenia or bipolar affective disorder. The fight against mental disorder of this nature can stretch for years. During this time, the patient is experiencing the moments of enlightenment (remission) and the moments of the exacerbation of psychosis, which alternate among themselves.
Psychosis - hereditary disease?
There is an opinion that argues that the closer the relationship, the higher the risk to face a psyche disorder in the form of psychosis. Hurry to make amend: you can not inherit the disease itself, but only a predisposition to it. The development of the disease itself depends on the totality of many factors. Today, science does not yet have the opportunity to determine the likelihood of the development of psychosis, if they suffered a relative. However, if the disease struck both parents, the risk of its development in a child is 50%, if only one - 25%.
Whether a person suffering from psychosis is dangerous for others?
Yes, it is dangerous if the disease is in the acute stage: hallucinations and nonsense interfere with the patient adequately perceive and understand reality. Man cannot control his behavior and respond to his actions. In such a situation, his close people should behave very carefully: do not try to argue with the patients to convince him in the unreality of those pictures he sees, not to ask him the details of his sensations, hide in the house all sharp, cutting and other traumatic objects. If you calm patients with your own forces fail, you need Call an ambulance.
Can people suffering from psychosis?
Psychosis, like any other physical illness, introduces some restrictions on human social life. Because of the mental disorder, the patient has no motion to action, so the labor activity sometimes represents an unbearable task for them. At the same time, work for such a person is a bridge connecting it with reality. Labor duties help the patient to save and even restore the ability to think. In some cases, suffering from psychosis can go to work after a course of comprehensive treatment.
Timely and adequate medical assistance gives a person with a mental disorder the opportunity to live fully: to receive education, engage in favorite thing, create a family and to start children.
