What is psychosis?
Psychosis is a mental state that includes a severe mental break with reality. Individuals with psychosis usually experience hallucinations, delusions or both. Hallucinations are the sensory perception of things that do not exist, such as seeing things or hearing of voices that are not there. Conducts are firm, false beliefs, for example, when suffering believes he is God or that CIA (CIA) follows every movement. Psychotic episodes may be the result of many other basic mental diseases and treatment generally involves the use of anti-psychotic drugs. These diseases can usually be treated effectively with a wide range of anti-psychotic drugs. Unfortunately, many people who experience psychotic symptoms have decided to regularly use their drugs by side effects, lack of funds for paying for medicines and paranoia. If a person experiencing these symptoms becomes a threat to himself or others, he may require involuntary hospitalization to be stabilized again to medicines.
Another type of psychosis is caused by a drug - a condition that is caused by acute intoxication of a chemical. Medicines most often responsible for psychotic symptoms include methamphetamines, cocaine, narcotics, marijuana, alcohol and sedatives. Symptoms are usually solved when the drug cleans the individual's system. Sometimes individuals who are addicted to the substance experience psychotic symptoms if they suddenly stop taking this substance and pass by withdrawal. Some people are also highly sensitive to medicines and even the medicine, as prescribed, can lead to psychotic symptoms in these individuals.
Organic diseases of the brain, such as Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia and Lewy's body, can also lead to psychosis. In particular, the Dementia Lewy Body is associated with detailed visual hallucinations. Treatment in these cases may be complex because anti-psychotic drugs tend to be ineffective and even harmful in individuals with dementia. Some experts recommend treating psychosis if the patient is not disturbed by hallucinations and delusions. If the individual is annoyed by psychotic symptoms, cholinesterase inhibitors such as Aricept® can help reduce them.
Finally, there is a correlation between psychotic symptoms and post -traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, it is not known whether the stressful event that caused PTSD also caused psychosis or whether individuals with psychosis have more trauma problems. This second hypothesis could mean that suffering more likely to develop PTSD symptoms than those funny psychosis.