Madness is synonymous with insanity. It is a mental illness, disorder. As a rule, such diseases are associated with the current state of the person. A person loses his own personality, forgetting who he is. Quite often patients suffering from quiet insanity suffer from mania. They begin to focus on some subject or person, hiding from reality. Once mania is replaced by madness.
In treatment
Often insanity is a disease that the patient does not want to get rid of. He has no desire to return to the real world, as he is already in a convenient refuge. Often suffering from mental disorders become religious fanatics, live in fear of God and the devil, just as they had previously lived with their parents.
A major role in the treatment of such patients is given to suggestion. Madness is a fairly extensive list of ailments. Otherwise, they are sometimes called nerve-wracking insanity. As a rule, in this case, the most diverse methods of therapy are used to treat a person - medicines, suggestion, magnetotherapy and dozens more points.
Value
In a general sense, insanity is insanity, an incurable mental disorder. In previous centuries, this was the name of any individual behavior that deviated from social norms. So, it is known that such a diagnosis was made for those suffering from convulsions, hallucinations, head injuries, who tried to take their own lives.
Previously, the term was used in relation to many diseases; at the moment, psychiatry practically does not use such a concept. It remains to live only in everyday speech.
Mass phenomena
In history, there are also descriptions of cases of mass insanity. In the course of research, it was found that ordinary superstition, human ignorance, can provoke a similar phenomenon. Due to the many false ideas of ancient people about the world, many suffered from an abnormal sense of fear of nature, other people. And this is the basis for the development of mental illness. From this material there was delirium of the mentally ill.
The second factor affecting cases of mass insanity is contagiousness. There is a property in human physiology to imitate the movements that they previously saw. There is also an element of suggestion. And self-hypnosis is capable of exerting a powerful influence on any person. Under the influence of false ideas and superstitions, people can easily develop a mental illness. For this reason, in the days of the reign of superstition, there were cases of mass insanity against the backdrop of religious ideas. Due to the contagiousness of the epidemic of mental disorders were widespread.
Since there are extremely many forms of insanity, it is hardly possible to identify characteristic signs. Its main manifestation is the deviation of behavior from the norms accepted in society. The patient loses control over himself and his emotions, as if he is permanently in a state of affect. Actions become meaningless. The perception of reality is disturbed.