Endogenous psychosis: symptoms and treatment

Endogenous psychosis is listed as a list of serious mental illnesses. Endogenous mental disorder is formed by the action of a provoking factor, which has an internal genesis. In the article we will consider the causes of this pathology and its symptoms.

The grounds of endogenous psychosis

It should be noted that a specific basis, because of which the patient may have this psychosis, was not found. But experts identify the factors that contribute to the formation of the disease in a determined way.

So, endogenous psychosis can be formed under the influence of external factors. This mental disorder can be caused by excessive consumption of alcohol or drugs. Experts note that the basis of endogenous psychosis is the breakdown of the endocrine balance and the central nervous system. Sometimes the disease is determined by atherosclerosis of the brain vessels, hypertension or schizophrenia. The course of such a disease is characterized by the duration and frequency of manifestation.

Symptomatics

Symptoms of the disease can be expressed in a simple form even before the onset of the pathological condition. But, according to experts, they can be relatively difficult to determine.

The earliest symptoms include:

• irritability;
• The periodic occurrence of feelings of anxiety;
• Nervousness;
• Increased susceptibility.

As a rule, patients have a sleep disorder, there are interruptions in appetite, a person becomes apathetic. At the same time, disability decreases, there is a violation of attention, and any, even insignificant, trouble is the basis for stress. Endogenous psychosis also influences the formation of individual modifications of sensations. This, in turn, leads to a feeling of fear, depression or sudden mood swings.

Endogenous psychosis directly affects the personality changes. This is manifested in the fact that the patient sees a changed world, the patient has a feeling that he is being monitored. As a rule, in the patient's speech, illogical statements slip through, which turn into nonsense.

In such patients, deep thinking disorders are observed, which are accompanied by hallucinations. For no apparent reason, such a person can become depressed. And the basis for such modifications is the loss of a normal worldview. As a rule, the patient does not realize what is happening to him at the moment, and can not assess how difficult his psychic changes are.

Childhood and teenage psychosis

Endogenous psychoses in children and adolescents do not have a clearly marked symptomatology, and therefore may have different configurations. To the obvious symptoms experts consider the emergence of illusions. This is primarily a child's ability to contemplate, feel, hear what is not in reality. The child thus has a behavioral disorder, which is expressed, for example, by laughter over annoying things, nervousness and irritability without reason. The child also writes unusual words.

It is the presence of hallucinations and delusions that are the starting symptoms for diagnosing psychosis in children.

In the case of psychosis in adolescents, the risk of suicide is significantly increased, as these patients have weak self-control. For this reason, such patients must be hospitalized.

Causes of childhood psychosis

The reasons for the formation of psychosis in childhood are varied. But the main factors that provoke pathology are:

• Long-term use of medications;
• Suffered high body temperature;
• Hormonal imbalance.

Sometimes children's psychosis can develop without accompanying diseases. Children born with serious anomalies of a constitutional type are subjected to psychoses that spontaneously manifest themselves at an early age. In most cases, such patients retain their disability throughout their lives.

Acute psychosis

This type of disease is considered a difficult mental illness, which is expressed by the presence of illusions, delusions and a sense of fantasy of everything that results. Determine the immediate cause of the formation of the disease is quite difficult. Specialists distinguish 3 groups of acute hallucinatory psychosis:

1. Acute endogenous psychosis. They are for the most part provoked by internal causes.
2. Acute exogenous psychosis. Appear because of the impact of external traumatic causes. But, according to experts, alcohol plays a special role among the provoking factors.
3. Organic acute psychosis. A provoking factor of the disease can be a tumor or a brain injury.

Forms of acute psychosis

In addition, there are a huge number of forms of the disease, which can be determined by a number of signs. Distinguish the following forms of the disease:

• Acute manic-depressive psychosis. This type of ailment is considered the most difficult. With this form of the disease, the patient is experiencing an alternation of a severe depressive state with stages of excessive emotionality.
• Acute manic psychosis. The peculiarity of the ailment lies in the fact that a person is in a prolonged nervous state.
• Acute reactive psychosis. The appearance of the disease is associated with the immediate reaction of the body to a severe stressful situation. As specialists note, this form of ailment has the most favorable prognosis, and in most cases is eliminated after the elimination of a stressful situation.

Most often for direct treatment of a patient's illness should be hospitalized. Such manipulations are primarily due to the fact that the patient is in a state of perverted perception of the world, therefore, can harm himself and others, without realizing it.

Prolonged type of psychosis

Chronic endogenous psychosis is a schizophrenia characterized by mental disorders that last for a long time and are accompanied by a change in personality in a progressive form.

It is necessary to distinguish between two concepts - the symptoms and signs of ailment, as they have some differences. So, chronic endogenous psychosis has certain attributes, which include:

• Alogy. Characterized by the lack of logical thinking in the patient. This feature is due to the scarcity of the vocabulary.
• Autism. This feature is characterized by distancing the patient from the outside world by immersion in himself. Such a person lives in his own world. As a rule, his interests are limited, and the actions are monotonous. Such a patient is characterized by a complete lack of humor, therefore, all that is said is accepted literally by the patient.
• Ambivalence. Splitting consciousness, an ambivalent attitude to anything.
• Associative thinking.

Symptoms of pathology include:

• Hallucinations;
• Illusions;
• rave;
• Inadequate behavior;
• Speech and thinking disorder;
• Obsessions.

Treatment of psychosis

Treatment of these ailments is carried out only under the supervision of specialists, since strong drugs for the treatment of endogenous psychosis are prescribed depending on the patient's age, complexity and type of ailment. A special place in therapy is given to psychotropic drugs, antidepressants ("Pirazidol", "Amitriptyline", "Gerfolal"), tranquilizers (Seduxen) and neuroleptics (Triftazin, Stelazin, Aminazin). No less important is the psychological correction of the patient's social behavior. Treatment requires round-the-clock monitoring of it and can be delayed for a long time, as the body is depleted not only emotionally, but also physically.

But the duration of the course of therapy with timely treatment usually takes no more than 2 months. In neglected cases, the course can be delayed indefinitely. Therefore, if symptoms of the disease develop, it is necessary to consult a doctor as soon as possible.