Acute psychosis is a rather complex mental illness that manifests itself in the presence of hallucinations , delusions and feelings of unreality of everything that is happening. To diagnose such a disease is difficult, because the patient is alienating from others, refuses advice and help. During the course of the disease, the adequacy of the patient decreases.
Causes of Acute Psychosis
Like all mental illnesses, in this case it is difficult to identify the cause of the occurrence. There are three types of acute hallucinatory psychosis:
- Endogenous acute psychosis is a psychosis caused by internal conditions, predisposition, etc.
- Exogenous acute psychosis - a psychosis that occurs as a consequence of the impact on a person of some traumatic factors.
- Organic acute psychosis is a psychosis that occurs because of trauma or brain tumors.
In addition, there are many varieties of acute psychosis. This condition occurs in people of different ages and sex, and the factors that provoke it can be different from each other. This causes a large number of different forms and types of disease. Let's consider some of them:
- acute polymorphic psychosis - a disease typical of adolescents from 10 to 15 years, which often speaks of developing schizophrenia ;
- acute reactive psychosis - a psychosis that occurs against the backdrop of a life-threatening factor as a reaction to it;
- acute manic psychosis - psychosis associated with increased excitability and lack of critical thinking.
Depending on the type of psychosis, the treatment may be slightly different. However, the most important thing here is that this disease can be cured.
Acute psychosis: symptoms
Usually such a diagnosis as acute psychosis can be put quite easily, since its symptoms are pronounced. These include:
- depersonalization (a man ceases to realize himself, forgets his personality);
- delirium (incoherent, devoid of logic and meaning speech);
- hallucinations (various visions that are perceived by man as a reality);
- pseudo-hallucinations (involuntary fantasies);
- derealization (separation from reality, withdrawal into one's own world);
- disorderly thinking (lack of logical, cause-effect and other connections in thoughts).
Symptoms of acute psychosis are not momentary: they can chase the patient for weeks and months. The faster the patient or his relatives turn to the appropriate clinic, the easier it will be to help a person, the better will be the prognosis for acute psychosis.
Acute psychosis: treatment
As a rule, doctors prescribe medication for the treatment of acute psychosis. Drugs can be different, depending on the age, complexity of the condition and the type of psychosis. Medicines can bring the patient's condition to normal in a fairly short time. In parallel, a psychoanalyst is recommended and treated, which will avoid the recurrence of acute conditions.
In some cases, acute psychosis requires an emergency physician, or taking sedatives.
An important role in the treatment is played by non-traditional methods - for example, hypnosis, psychoanalysis and others. Typically, when a person is at the reception, he complains about the lost life, while not expressing frankly crazy ideas and not showing other vivid signs.
Typically, the doctor helps the patient determine what caused the disease. In this case, the treatment progresses much faster and easier, because the patient himself takes his condition under control.