Depressive psychosis: symptoms and treatment of paranoid depressive psychosis

Depressive psychosis is a severe mental disorder, which is expressed by a distorted perception of the environment, caused by pathological organic changes in the human body. Has a wide variety of forms of manifestation, for example, manic-depressive psychosis, paranoid and others.

Symptomatic of depressive psychosis

The depressive period lasts a fairly long time, from 3 months to a year.

Symptoms of depressive psychosis can be described as a "complex of three symptoms":

1. Oppression, mood dreary;

2. Thought processes are inhibited;

3. Human movements are constrained.

A person in a depressed state, constantly experiencing anguish, is indifferent to his relatives, does not find joy in everything he used to do, he always lies or sits in one position, he answers questions in a braked, monosyllabic way.

The future for him is seen in black tones, everything that happened to him before, is regarded as failure, is insignificant and useless, which can lead to suicide.

Very often, women during periods of depressive psychosis do not have menstruation. At an older age in the clinic of the disease, unmotivated anxiety prevails, the feeling that something bad should happen. As a rule, in such a state a person realizes everything that is happening with him, but he has no opportunity to get out of it, which causes additional suffering.

Symptoms of Paranoid Psychosis

A person with a paranoid psychosis projects his or her personal conflicts to other people. He with the surrounding people is cold, keeps always at a certain distance, the most ordinary actions of people perceive as hostile to him attitude, causing aggression.

Paranoid depressive psychosis begins with pathological suspicion: the person of all begins to suspect of infidelity, betrayal, criticism in his address regards as a threat. Actions and actions inadequate and healthy people seem delusional.

Further, there are perceptual disorders and hallucinatory experiences. The thoughts of the patient are reduced to the fact that the world around and people are strange and unusual, and all are biased towards him. Man becomes vindictive, everyone is unhappy, even minor failures or refusal cause inadequate reaction.

The eccentric behavior of a person with a paranoid psychosis is a big problem for others. Therefore, if a similar person has such signs, it is necessary to urgently apply to a psychiatrist so that the disease does not progress to a more complex form.

Types of therapy for depressive psychoses

Treatment of depressive psychosis depending on the type and stage of the disease is carried out by different methods: both psychotherapeutic and medicamentous.

In paranoid psychosis, as a rule, long-term psychotherapy is aimed at optimizing social interaction, while the patient's life skills, self-esteem are increased.

Medicines for this type of psychosis, psychiatrists are used rarely, limitedly and then only in severe cases - it can be antidepressants, tranquilizers, neuroleptics. To treat diseases that have caused paranoia, such as brain trauma, syphilis of the brain, atherosclerosis, prescribers are prescribed by appropriate specialists.

Unlike paranoid, the treatment of manic-depressive psychosis mainly involves drug treatment methods. Everything depends on the present period of the disease, how pronounced the symptoms are, the particularities of the clinic of the disease - whether this depression is disturbing or with delirium.

In the period of depression with manic-depressive psychosis, various groups of antidepressants are used.

In the manifestation phase of manic symptoms, preparations of a group of antipsychotics with antimanic and sedative effects, such as haloperidol and aminazine, are shown.

Lithium preparations are also good results.

Another difference in the treatment of manic psychoses from paranoid is that manic-depressive psychosis in the acute stage requires only inpatient treatment. This is due to the fact that there is a probability of suicide of the patient.

Depressive psychosis is a disease that can not pass on its own, they need to be treated only under the supervision of a qualified specialist. If there is a situation in your family, do not let things go by themselves: the sooner you contact a doctor, the more effective and easier it will be to recover. A selection of videos on the topic of the article