Psychological disorders have many manifestations. To date, medicine has made very little progress on this issue. So far, it is very difficult to determine the true causes of a particular psychological disorder, since they all share similar features.
Types of psychological disorders
- Endogenous . The cause of the disorder is related to heredity. It is she who starts the development of the disease. The most famous endogenous psychological disorders are epilepsy, schizophrenia and manic-depressive psychosis.
- Exogenous . Developed under the influence of external factors, for example, alcohol or drugs, somatic or infectious diseases, brain tumors, the consequences of craniocerebral trauma, and neuroinfections.
- Psychogenic . Arise if there is an acute stress and psychotraumatic situation. An example of psychogenic disorders are neuroses, reactive psychoses and psychosomatic disorders.
- Pathology of psychological development . The disorder manifests itself in pronounced violations of certain areas, for example, intellectual or behavioral. A vivid example of such pathological development can be called oligophrenia and psychopathy.
Signs of a psychological disorder
- Occurrence of hallucinations, amplification, attenuation or distortion of sensitivity.
- The incoherence of thinking, inhibition, breaks in thoughts, manifestations of delusional thoughts, ideas.
- Violation of attention or memory, the appearance of false memories, dementia.
- Depressive state, groundless anxiety, apathy, euphoria, spitefulness, complete absence of emotions.
- Motor excitation, obsessive actions, seizures, protracted silence.
- Violation of consciousness, disorientation in space and time, illusory and unnaturalness of the surrounding world.
- Bulimia, anorexia, sexual psychological disorders, which are expressed in sexual overexcitation or total absence
his, perversion, fear of premature ejaculation, etc. - Psychopathy - sharply expressed character traits , which greatly hamper the life of the patient and those around him.
Psychological personality disorders can be treated. An important role in this play a psychiatrist and a psychotherapist. They try to eliminate the cause of the disorder and return the patient clarity of thinking. As an additional treatment, drug therapy is used.