Agitation is a strong emotional arousal, accompanied by fear, anxiety and developing into motor and speech excitement. A person has a need for the same type of movements, which are very often not conscious. This condition is accompanied by excessive fussiness and the execution of only simple actions that are performed without thought, automatically.
According to experts, agitation is a pre-pathological condition that occurs due to the appearance of severe stress or the presence of mental illness in a patient. In particular, it refers to catatonic schizophrenia, anxiety neurosis, Alzheimer's disease and depression. Agitation can also be a symptom of an infectious disease, and sometimes it causes alcohol or drug intoxication.
Symptoms
We go further. There are a number of signs by which agitation is detected. Symptoms are manifested primarily in the behavior of the patient, although he himself does not notice it. There is fussiness in the movements and speech anxiety. The patient's face turns pale, his hands tremble, his heartbeat quickens and sweating intensifies. In such a state, there is a complete lack of thoughts, the ability to reason and establish causal relationships is lost. Medicine pays special attention to the emergence of agitation in Alzheimer's disease. In this case, patients also have severe behavioral disorders. In particular, there are complaints of various kinds of hallucinations, depression occurs, a person is attracted to wanderings. The patient also has excessive excitement. He begins to use obscene language unusual for him.
Treatment
Agitation is known to be a treatable disease. But in order to completely get rid of it, it is necessary to conduct a thorough diagnosis. A big mistake will leave this process to chance. The patient can harm both himself and loved ones when agitation appears. Treatment will depend on the cause of the disease. If necessary, then use drugs. But more often they use psychotherapeutic techniques that help the patient overcome the ailment and increase its resistance to stress factors.
Use of drugs
For clinical practice, agitation is a common occurrence. On this occasion, conducted a lot of special studies. As it turned out, 25% of employees at work are worried. In addition, ambulance nurses face physical or verbal threats when dealing with such patients. Agitation always negatively affects the patient's condition. If medications were used too early during her treatment, it will be very difficult to conduct an accurate psychiatric assessment. Delayed treatment, on the other hand, carries the risk of harming the patient. There is a possibility that in this case, agitation will gain maximum severity, and to exit this condition, the patient will need higher drug doses. Therefore, to obtain the optimal result, timely treatment should be carried out.