Clouding is the name by which a disorder is hiding, which is acute, but transient. Moreover, a person is not able to understand and perceive the world that surrounds him.
How to determine confusion?
This state is characterized by estrangement from the world. It is difficult for patients to realize reality. They are poorly oriented in time, space and are not aware of the situation. Thinking also becomes fuzzy. The patient cannot establish a connection between events. At the moment when there is confusion, the patient does not remember events.
In groups of violation, a decrease in the level of consciousness is distinguished, in which there is inhibition or lack of contact with the patient. There are many intermediate states between a clear mind and a coma. Confusion - these are psychoses that are accompanied by hallucinations, delirium and excitement. Reality is replaced by a fictional world.
An altered state of consciousness is the concentration of attention on some subject. In this case, the patient is fenced off from other phenomena of reality.
Clouding of consciousness: types
The most common syndromes are amentia, delirium, twilight dizziness, and onyroid. Often such phenomena are observed against the background of intoxication or mental illness.
Delirium is an acute psychosis in which markedly excited excitement, disorientation in time and place, hallucinations and colorful illusions. In this condition, an assessment of his personality is maintained.
Amenia is more likely to occur with exhaustion. The patient does not make contact. He sometimes has hallucinations or illusions. Thinking is incoherent.
Twilight stupor is characterized by the fact that patients can perceive only individual fragments of reality. Moreover, the reaction to these circumstances is extremely unexpected. Patients usually show aggression and anger. Contact is almost impossible. Patients can perform automatic actions, such as putting on clothes. When the psychosis passes, the patient does not remember what he was doing.
Oneroi dumbness is a fragmented perception of reality in combination with bright hallucinations. Patients seem to see their life from the side. Visions come from past events, films watched and books read. Dual orientation is possible, i.e. the patient may be aware that he is in the hospital, but at the same time consider that he is involved in some fantastic events.
Even a healthy person may have a state of altered consciousness. For example, if you focus on the words of the doctor, you can stop perceiving the world around you. It is in this way that confusion occurs during hypnosis.
If hysterical seizures take place, then after psychosis a person remembers only part of the events. But under the influence of hypnosis, you can restore the memory of what happened.
In any case, the psychiatrist treats all these conditions. It is important to conduct an examination in time, make a diagnosis and start the appropriate procedures.