Psychosis

Psychosis Greek means impaired mental disorder, accompanied with a strong mental activity, the mental reactions are inconsistent with the actual situation, which significantly affects the perception of the real world, as well as the disruption of behavior

Psychosis - types

Psychosis divided by the clinic( their origins), As well as for reasons. By causal origin attribute pathogenetic mechanisms of endogenous nature - schizophrenia, psychotic form of affective disorder, schizoaffective disorder, as well as organic, psychogenic( situational, reactive), intoxication, and withdrawal postabstinentnom form.

Classification origin considering the prevailing symptomatology forms: manic, hypochondriacal, paranoia, depression, as well as combinations depressive- ipohondicheskih and depressive-paranoid forms

Psychosis Freud

In psychoanalysis psychosis considered as a possible distortion of the structure mental apparatus at the same level as neurosis andPerversion. Initially, Sigmund Freud contrasted neurosis with psychosis, thinking that neurosis is the result of the internal conflict in favor Ego and the Id, and psychosis is the outcome of a violation of the outside world and Ya Later Freud inclined to believe that psychosis and neurosis is a striking protest It is against the outside world, whenThere is a loss of reality

Psychosis and Jung

Carl Gustav Jung believed that psychosis is an individual flooding of consciousness unconscious content. Symptoms of psychosis were considered not as an indicator of the disease, but as messages of the unconscious, requiring the individual's solution of the problem. Often the symptoms are a clue to indicate the nature of the problem and suggest the direction of the solution to the problem

Causes of psychosis

The cause may be internal as well as external factors. Indications of internal character include neurological disorders, as well as endocrine diseases that lead to the development of endogenous disease. To external causes of illnesses include infections( tuberculosis, syphilis, typhoid, influenza), narcotic substances, alcohol, industrial poisons, stress, psychotrauma.

The first place among external causes is alcohol, leading to alcoholic psychosis. Endogenous psychoses

developing age-related changes of human( hydrocyanic psychosis) and often serve as a consequence of schizophrenia, hypertension, atherosclerosis of cerebral vessels. Endogenous psychosis is characterized by the duration and tendency to relapse.

Psychosis is a complex state with its difficulties in diagnosing internal as well as external causes. The beginning can serve external factors, and only then internal problems join.

By nature of the flow, as well as the emergence of the release of reactive, as well as acute forms of the disease. Reactive refers to reversible mental disorders that have arisen because of a mental trauma. For an acute illness, a sudden and rapid development of events is characteristic. For example, sudden news of loss of a loved one or loss of property

Psychosis - symptoms

A sick person suffers from a number of different changes in behavior, thinking and emotions. The basis is the loss of real perception of the world. Ill person is not aware of what is happening, and also is not able to assess the entire degree of changes in his psyche. Often because of the depressed state, patients do not want to take medical care and refuse to be hospitalized. Symptomatology of psychosis is also accompanied by delusions and hallucinations statements

Psychosis - Treatment

most important in the treatment of psychosis - is the elimination of the causes of disease, or psychogenic situation. In itself, an affective-shock reaction often does not need medical help. And with other forms of diseases, the patient needs to be hospitalized to prevent unintentional harm to himself or others. Therapeutic help to the patient should be justified, namely, the diagnosis should be properly established, the psychopathological symptomatology revealed and the severity of the condition determined.

Drug treatment includes the use of psychotropic drugs, neuroleptics, tranquilizers, restorative drugs, antidepressants.

Currently there is a great variety of medicines that help with certain types and forms of the disease. If they overcome intoxication psychoses, then they use drugs to purify the body.

Effective medications for psychoses are prescribed strictly by the doctor and individually.

In the period of acute excitement, prescribe seduxen( tranquilizers in injections) and tryptazine with an aminazine( neuroleptics).

Delusional ideas are removed with the help of stelazine, etaperazina, haloperidol( neuroleptics).

Medical assistance is dynamic and depends on the nature of the course of the disease and on the condition of the patient.

Psychiatric rehabilitation increases the effectiveness of drug treatment. The main task of the psychiatrist is to establish contact with the sick person, as well as to suggest the idea of ​​an imminent recovery with the help of medications.

Rehabilitation course is complemented by training sessions on the way out of the disease. The patient, first of all, must be taught to react calmly and treat the world around him, and also develop a different behavior to life by training.

Physiotherapeutic methods of treatment include physiotherapeutic procedures: electrosleep, physiotherapy exercises, occupational therapy, acupuncture, sanatorium treatment.

Electroconvulsive therapy is effective in the treatment of psychoses. Treatment consists in causing convulsive seizures by artificial means under the influence of alternating electric current. The method directly affects and treats the subcortical centers of the brain, as well as the nervous metabolic processes.

Then, after rehabilitation, the sick person returns to life and equally feels himself in society.