Manic psychosis is a severe mental disorder, in which there is delusions, hallucinations, inadequate behavior of the patient. As a rule, in this case, hospitalization and treatment under the supervision of a psychiatrist is required.
Manic psychosis: causes
The causes of all psychiatric diseases to some extent remain outstanding until now. Experts believe that the prerequisites for the development of manic psychosis can be such factors:
- brain injury;
- tumors, brain oncology;
- severe mental trauma;
- emotional shock;
- the presence of other mental abnormalities.
There are no specific reasons for the development of such a disease at present. For most psychoses, the causes remain unclarified, and are presumably a close interlacing of hereditary characteristics and additional factors.
Symptoms of manic psychosis
Determine the presence of such a disease is easy, because all the symptoms are quite bright and visible to others. These include:
- inability to distinguish between the real and the unreal;
- depersonalization, erasure of personality;
- pseudohallucination;
- distracted attention;
- hallucinations;
- rave;
- disorderly thinking .
With such affective disorder as manic-depressive psychosis, these symptoms describe only one side of the disease. In this case, these symptoms will be replaced by the symptoms of depressive psychosis. If this is an independent disorder, it will last for a long time - from several days to several months, after which there will be an improvement and a new "wave."
Manic psychosis - options
To date, in science, there are several varieties of manic syndrome, each of which is characterized by its own characteristics. Among the notable are the following:
- joyous mania - a classic syndrome with increased motor excitation, tahipsihiey and hypertension;
- Onyeroid mania is a syndrome characterized by fantastic hallucinatory experiences;
- manic-paranoid variant - a syndrome characterized by persecution mania and delusions;
- delusional version - a syndrome characterized by delusional megalomania, own exclusiveness, fanaticism, absurd judgments, often associated with the professional sphere of the patient's life;
- Angry mania is a kind of syndrome that is characterized by increased aggressiveness, quick temper, conflict and irritability.
Of course, it is not necessary to write down every self-centered or quick-tempered person in a row of mental patients. As a rule, the boundary between normal and deviation in this case is quite noticeable.
Treatment of manic psychosis
The earlier you notice a manic psychosis in yourself or someone from your
The process of the development of the disease is always individual, and even an experienced doctor can not predict how the disease will develop in a particular case. Based on how the disease proceeds, the physician chooses an individual approach to treatment that combines medication and psychotherapeutic practices.
Acute manic psychosis requires special care in choosing the tactics of treatment, and in this period, as a rule, the basis of treatment is strong drugs. When the phase of remission comes, it is very important to receive sufficient psychotherapeutic help to maximally push back and minimize the subsequent exacerbation.