Dromomania

Description

Love for travel, the desire to visit beautiful places, relax away from home are typical of many of us. It turns out that such impulses can take the features of a mental disorder. Impulsive, unmotivated travel without preparation and preliminary plan doctors are called dromomania and include in the section of mental illnesses.

So, dromomania is an attraction to escape from home, wandering and frequent changing of places. It is observed in a number of mental illnesses.

Reasons for

In adolescence, the most common cause of dromatology is the development of the emotional sphere. Often, children run away from home, following examples that describe modern books or films very vividly. Such shoots have no romantic connotation. Children want to find new impressions, escape from boredom, routine, excessive workload in school. In this case, dromomania is false and reflects a completely normal manifestation of mental development, but it also happens that dromomania, which appeared in childhood, persists in adult men and women, and the second does not stop even the presence of small children who, during the vagrancy of the parent, risk damaging theirHealth.

Also, dromomania can be one of the symptoms of a mental illness. Thus, for example, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, long-term consequences of psychopathy, mental trauma are manifested. Vagrancy, dependent on a person's mental state, can occur with the following diagnoses: epilepsy, schizophrenia, hysteria. More bouts of dremomania are possible as symptoms of organic brain disease.

In the formation of dromatology, doctors allocate a reactive stage - this is the first departure from home in connection, for example, with a trauma. In the future, care becomes habitual. For any unfavorable situation, even the most insignificant, there is a developed reaction - escape from the house. After a while, leaving home and at all become helpless, unexpected and acquire an impulsive character.

Another of the likely causes of dremomania - head trauma, bruise or concussion.

Symptoms of

In order for a doctor to diagnose droma- mania, frequent trips alone are not enough. They must meet certain characteristics.

• Suddenness. Another dromomanic impulse arises quite unexpectedly, for no apparent reason. A person can just get up from the table in the middle of lunch and go on a trip.
• No liability. A person suffering from dromomania does not warn about his departure neither relatives nor employers. He can calmly leave an unfinished project or a child in need of care.
• Complete lack of planning. Dromoman does not change clothes before the trip, does not take documents and money with him. Often then he beggars or is satisfied with casual earnings, sleeps on the street, moves by "hare" or hitchhiking.
• The dromomania itself describes the dromomania itself as a bout of anxiety, an inexplicable and irresistible craving to change the environment. Gradually, the symptoms subsided, after which the dromoman returns home.
• In patients with severe dromatology, doctors can record changes in the functional activity of the brain: with MRI, the pathological activity in the temporal lobes is observed.

Diagnosis

If symptoms of dromomania are detected, you need to contact a psychiatrist who will determine your next actions. It has already been mentioned above, in some cases it is enough to consult a doctor and make an MRI to detect droma- mania. Well, in general, since dromomania often develops against the background of other diseases, therapy should begin with the diagnosis of the underlying disease.

Treatment of

If dromatology appears in a child, special treatment is not required. As a rule, the deviation takes place together with the age-related mental ripening. Parents only need to understand that in case of a child's escape it is better to turn to a psychotherapist, and not to the police, so as not to injure the child's psyche and not develop the disease even more.

If dromatology is of a clinical nature, complex specialized treatment, including medication, is required here. It is prescribed individually depending on the underlying disease, which provoked dromomania. Clinical dromomania is not always treated, so it is important to maintain the mental state at a normal level. All recommendations are given by a psychiatrist.

Folk remedies

Folk remedies dromomania is not treated. At the appearance of the first symptoms and suspicions of dromomania, you need to immediately consult a therapist or immediately to a psychiatrist.

Complications of

In addition to the fact that dromatology affects the quality of life of a patient, people who are part of his environment may be at risk. You can not rely on such a person, you can not trust him. He is irresponsible, and therefore, even in adulthood, behaves like a child. The dromoman can throw his own child in need of help, and this impulse is out of control, so timely access to the doctor, diagnosis and treatment of the disease is so important.

Moreover, it is important not to miss the underlying disease that caused dromomania, because it can also be dangerous for the health and life of the patient.

Prevention

Prophylaxis of dromomania is effective among adolescents, that is when the disease is false.

Parents should take responsibility for their children's hobbies, control which films they watch, what books they read, because often the child takes a negative example from there. It is also important to monitor the load of the child, both physical and emotional( mental).The child should adhere to a certain daily routine, enough to rest, eat well, have good relations with peers. To follow all spheres of the child's life, to help him( independently or by the forces of specialists) is the task of the parents.

Also parents should create a friendly friendly atmosphere at home, so that the child does not experience stress, does not aggress, spent time at home with pleasure.

All this will make it easier to pass the crisis of adolescence and avoid the possible manifestation of false dromomania.

Prevention of clinical dromomania is most often impossible, since it is caused by other mental illnesses.

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