Mental disorders of a person are severe pathological conditions that are characterized by impaired intellectual, mental activity and emotional disorders that have different degrees of severity.
What do psychotic disorders include ?
To begin with, let's figure out what is meant by such a term as “psychotic disorders”. These are manifestations of mental illness in which human activity does not correspond to the environment or reality. At the same time, the display of the real world is greatly distorted in the mind, which leads to disturbances in behavior, the appearance of pathological syndromes and symptoms.
There are mental disorders that arise due to meningitis, encephalitis, brain tumors, injuries, brain syphilis, as well as degenerative, vascular and other organic ailments or brain damage.
Neuropsychiatric disorders also include post-traumatic stress, behavioral and mental abnormalities in women related to reproductive function (pregnancy, the postpartum period, premenstrual syndrome, etc.), paranoia, and many others.
Why do mental disorders occur?
The reasons that can cause such ailments are a huge number. Let's dwell on the most common.
- Neurosis . Even the most basic anxiety depletes the human nervous system. We often imagine various horrors in our imagination, imagine unimaginable things, and then it turns out that we were worried in vain. These anxieties in the end can result in a significant mental disorder.
- Neurasthenia . Often appears as a response to the constant impact of a traumatic situation. Individuals with increased anxiety and a sense of duty have a great tendency to such an ailment.
- Depression Constant sadness, refusal to eat, unwillingness to do something, apathy often leads to drug use, alcoholism, and suicide.
- Chemical and toxic substances. Medicines, poisons, food components, heavy metals, alcohol lead to depletion, lack of vitamins, respectively, to the development of psychosis.
Signs of Mental Disorder
Characteristic symptoms of a disorder include mood, behavior, or thinking disorders that do not fit into existing norms. To other signs that will be noticeable to the patients themselves or others, should be added:
- physical symptoms (pain, insomnia);
- emotional signs (anxiety, fear, sadness, etc.);
- cognitive impairment (memory impairment, inability to think clearly);
- behavioral signs (aggression, inability to perform everyday functions);
- hallucinations.
Each disorder is characterized by specific symptoms. If in one case a person has a deviation in behavior, then in another situation one can observe even such types
of thinking disorder as a violation of his dynamics (speech retardation), the operating part and motivation. In the early stages, it is very important to seek medical help.
Why is paranoia dangerous?
This disorder should be separately emphasized, since it has not yet been fully studied, and medicine does not have any effective ways to correct it. The peculiarity of the disease is that before the onset of the terminal phase there are no signs of the disease. This leads to its progression, because the patient does not seek help.
Symptoms of Paranoia
Paranoid is a person who constantly has crazy ideas. This can be expressed in excessive suspicion, unjustified distrust of others. People with such a diagnosis are able to clearly perceive the emotional background of other people, but they cannot interpret it correctly. Sometimes mere trifles are of great importance to them, and even with a negative color.
For example, a paranoid person is a person who suspects a terrorist or a maniac in the most harmless person. He will be sure that he “accurately calculates” all the most “terrible plans” of an ordinary passerby. If a man with such a diagnosis is jealous of his wife, then it will be impossible to prove anything to him, and he himself is able to bring his spouse with his delirium to a heart attack.
What is the behavior of the paranoid?
People with such a mental disorder are constantly inclined to criticize someone for no reason, but they do not tolerate any kind of statements. However, even so, they behave relatively adequately, without displaying excessive aggression. A paranoid is a person who is not haunted by hallucinations or some special deviations visible to others, according to which one could suspect an ailment.
Yes, paranoid people have difficult relationships with people around them due to deviations, but this does not prevent them from thinking logically and being quite active socially. In addition, if such a person builds his own logical chain, then it will be so perfect and accurate that it will be impossible to find any flaw in it. However, the basis of such conclusions is mainly based on suspicion, therefore it is absolutely inconsistent with the current state of affairs.
When can paranoia appear?
Most often, the manifestation of such an ailment is observed in adulthood, in middle-aged people. However, paranoia is laid, like many other mental disorders, even in childhood. For example, it is no secret that little boys and girls, as a rule, are never in one very friendly team. And how do children react when they put a boy and a girl at school at the same desk? It may seem to them that in this way the teacher does on purpose, trying to scoff at the guys or punishing them for this or that offense.
And later, after some time, when heterosexuality is already developing, the situation changes and gets a different direction. And if the psyche of the individual could not successfully go through this period, but was “stuck” in it, then the risk of getting paranoia in the future is very high.
Paranoid is a person who needs to be treated as soon as the first alarming symptoms appear. The main methods of treating this ailment are in psychotherapeutic courses. They are carried out individually with each patient.