Psychosis is a mental disorder or an abnormal state of mind. Its development is influenced by internal and external factors. To the most frequent reasons carry heredity, reception of certain medicines, diseases, traumas, hormonal disorders. Symptoms and signs of psychosis manifest themselves in the aggregate, determining the overall picture of the disease.
Symptoms of acute psychosis
- Hallucinations, as auditory and visual, and visual, and tactile.
- Delusional state, not amenable to correction.
- Inadequate perception of others and themselves.
- Inadequate behavior and emotions .
- Disorganization and inconsistency of speech.
Symptoms of Depressive Psychosis
This disease affects the brain, and psychological manifestations are the external side of the disease. Depression develops gradually, and most often it affects people educated, with high moral standards. It appears as follows:
- First, a pathological decline in mood is observed. Man constantly digs through his mistakes and shortcomings, he yearns and finds no place, but does not cry;
- the symptoms of psychosis in both women and men are associated with psychological retardation. Impairments, memory and thinking deteriorate. At the person interest to a life falls;
- there is also physical inhibition. Due to deterioration of appetite , a drop in body weight occurs. Movement slows down, gait becomes insecure.
Severe forms of depressive psychosis cause a man to fall into a stupor. He can sit for a long time without moving, and look at one point. People in this state, as a rule, are insensitive to pain, they get up early, eat badly, suffer from constipation and dehydration. All these signs are a factor indicating that the patient should be immediately shown to the doctor.