Reactive psychosis

No one is immune from mental illness. And, if it somehow affected your life, remember that you have to fight it immediately.

Reactive psychosis is a mental disorder that occurs due to a strong pressure of stress and the environment.

Symptoms

Isolate the usual reactive states and protracted reactive psychoses. They are often caused by a strong impact, which carries a danger to life.

In detail, we consider the main symptoms of reactive psychosis.

Symptoms manifest themselves in the form of inhibition and excitation. A person begins to rush, shout, ask for help, try to escape even to meet the threatening danger. The inhibition may be accompanied by partial or complete immobility, despite the menacing danger. The duration of the stupor: one minute - a couple of hours. Mimicry reflects fear, indifference, horror or confusion.

Prolonged reactive psychoses and neuroses are characterized by a serious condition and detachment from the whole world. There are several variants of such disorders, which can change each other in protracted psychosis:

1. Hysterical obscuration of consciousness - violation of orientation, wrong answer to the question posed, crying, laughter, foolishness.
2. Pseudomodulation is a false dementia, which can last from a few weeks to two months.
3. Puerilism is child behavior.
4. Hysterically, the stupor is a refusal of food, a stubborn silence and a narrowed consciousness.
5. Reactive depression - often due to the death of close people, feelings of own guilt , loneliness, suffering, unfavorable financial situation with the need for complicity and empathy.
6. A reactive delusional psychosis - appears due to overwork , malnutrition, insomnia, overly tense situation, fear, development of paranoia.

Treatment

How is reactive psychosis treated? To begin with, it is necessary to eliminate the cause of the disease and try to protect the person from an unfavorable situation. Many states require intervention of doctors.

Acute reactive psychosis is characterized by hospitalization. An insoluble situation is the cause of a protracted course of psychosis, so often as a treatment prescribe the use of antidepressants. Carry out psychotherapeutic work, which in most cases have a favorable outcome. Difficulties can arise in insoluble conditions, psychotraumatic situations. There is an adaptation to the new conditions.

Remember, if you suffer from reactive psychosis, immediately consult a specialist.