What is psychosis? What methods of their treatment practices modern medicine? You will learn about this by reading this article.
Content
Psychosis (psychotic disorders) - bright manifestations of mental diseases, in which the psychic activity of the patient does not correspond to the surrounding reality, the reflection of the real world is distorted in consciousness, which is manifested in violations of the behavior, the appearance of pathological symptoms and syndromes.
Most often psychosis develop within «Endogenous diseases», To which include:
- schizophrenia;
- Schizoaffective psychosis;
- Affective diseases.
In uncomplicated and incryed cases, inpatient treatment lasts about a month. Such a term is necessary to fully cope with the symptoms of psychosis and choose the optimal supporting therapy.
One of the most important factors affecting the prognosis of psychosis is the timeliness of the beginning and intensity of active treatment in combination with social rehabilitation activities.
Healing Soul: Modern approaches to the treatment of psychosis
Worldwide, the most efficient and reliable method of therapy is considered to be drug treatment of psychosis, which is based on an individual approach to each patient, taking into account age, gender, having burden by other diseases. One of the main tasks is to establish fruitful cooperation with patients. It is necessary to inspire a patient to faith in the possibility of recovery, overcome his beliefs against «Harm», psychotropic drugs applied.
Social rehabilitation is a set of training programs for patients with mental impaired methods of rational behavior, both in the conditions of the clinic and in everyday life. Rehabilitation is aimed at learning the social skills of interaction with other people, the skills necessary in everyday life, such as accounting for their own finance, house cleaning, shopping, use by public transport and T.D.
All these methods in reasonable use can increase the efficiency of drug therapy of psychosis.