What is the confusion of consciousness?

The confusion of consciousness is the name under which the disorder that is acute is hidden, but is transient. In this case, a person is not able to understand and perceive the world that surrounds him.

How to define the confusion of consciousness?

This state is characterized by detachment from the world. It is difficult for patients to realize the reality. They are poorly oriented in time, space and do not realize the situation. Also, thinking becomes indistinct. The patient can not establish a connection between the events. At the moment when there is a confusion of consciousness, the patient does not remember events.

By groups of disorders, there is a decrease in the level of consciousness, in which there is a retardation or lack of contact with the patient. There are many intermediate states between a clear mind and a coma. The confusion of consciousness is psychosis, which is accompanied by hallucinations, delirium and excitement. Reality is replaced by a fictional world.

The altered state of consciousness is the concentration of attention on some subject. In this case, the patient is fenced off from other phenomena of reality.

Dullness of consciousness: Species

The most common syndromes are amenia, delirium, twilight cloudiness and onyeroid. Often such phenomena are observed against the background of intoxication or mental illness.

Delirium is an acute psychosis, in which there is marked excitement, disorientation in time and place, hallucinations and colorful illusions. In this state, the evaluation of one's personality remains.

Amenity is more common with exhaustion. The patient does not go to the contact. He sometimes has hallucinations or illusions. Thinking is incoherent.

Twilight obscuration is characterized by the fact that patients can perceive only certain fragments of reality. And the reaction to these circumstances is extremely unexpected. Usually patients show aggression and anger. Contact is almost impossible. Patients can perform automatic actions, for example, to put on clothes. When the psychosis passes, the patient does not remember what he did.

One-photo obscuration is a fragmentary perception of reality combined with vivid hallucinations. Patients seem to see their lives from the outside. Visions come from past events, watched movies and read books. A dual orientation is possible, i.e. The patient may be aware that he is in the hospital, but at the same time assume that he is involved in some fantastic events.

Even a healthy person may have a state of altered consciousness. For example, if you concentrate on the doctor's words, you can stop perceiving the world around you. It is in this way that the confusion of consciousness under hypnosis is achieved.

If there are hysterical seizures, then after a psychosis a person remembers only a part of the events. But under the influence of hypnosis you can restore the memory of what happened.

In any case, a psychiatrist deals with the treatment of all these conditions. It is important to carry out a survey on time, diagnose and begin the appropriate procedures.