By the way, psychosis we are used to refer to as something topical and familiar, they say, this happens to everyone, and it will pass by itself. Alas, this is the biggest mistake of people from the environment of patients with psychosis - after all, instead of helping, they let things go on their own. This can lead to dangerous consequences. We will try to give you a general picture of the development of paranoid psychosis.
Causes of development
First of all, the disease occurs on the basis of somatic pathologies. Paranoid tendencies can appear after brain injuries, with atherosclerosis and syphilis of the brain. Also in the development of the disease an important role is played by genetics and predisposition, as well as human ontogeny. Disease is caused by the environment in which it arises, if, the environment places an unbearable burden on the brain.
Most often, according to statistics, a paranoid condition occurs in young men.
Symptoms
With this disease, the thoughts and feelings of the patient acquire special importance, actions can be completely inadequate, as well as reactions to seemingly innocuous things. To healthy people, such over-impressionability of a person seems delusional and inappropriate reality.
With paranoid psychopathy, the world and people seem unreal, strange. The patient feels that all the "bad" around him, he is treated with prejudice and hostile. Perceived human perception - it can not generalize, bring associations, often there is a hypochondria.
The main symptom of paranoid psychosis is eccentricity in everything. Others believe that a person is simply arrogant and militant, since any refusal, even the slightest, is perceived too sharply, painfully. Rage, discontent and the thought that everything is to blame for it is he who constantly boils in a sick brain. Also a characteristic phenomenon is jealousy, hunt-down and incessant suspicions of betrayal of a loved one.
Paranoid personality
There are people who, by character composition, are as close as possible to the onset of the disease. The paranoid personality with all his behavior resembles the symptoms of the disease and is at risk for the nearest launch of the disease.
Often people with such predispositions become political figures, where their inclination to oppose higher forces and to fight "evil" looks, as it were, naturally. On the other hand, the paranoid character is often found in serial killers, who firmly believe that they killed their victims, because they themselves hunted and planned to kill them.
Such people lack a sense of humor , they project responsibility from themselves to others, do not trust anyone, feel betrayed and offended.
They are given movement by the eyes - "down, left", which from the point of view of psychiatry means dodgy. They have contempt for the weak and unhappy, they admire power and power. However, in fact, their hatred for the weak is hatred for themselves, since in the soul such a sick person feels their own insecurity, fear, and shame.
Treatment
Treatment of paranoid psychosis rarely occurs in the hospital, this is a necessity, only in cases when the patient shows a clear danger to himself and others.
Psychotherapy is used in the course of which the patient is raised self-esteem, self-esteem (which in fact are the reason for prejudice against others). Also prescribe sedatives, tranquilizers and antidepressants. And, of course, in case the cause of paranoid psychosis is another disease, appropriate treatment is prescribed.