Concept of psychosis
Psychosis is a disease or medical term called mental states that affect the human, which occurs in the defect within the logical thinking, or in the sense of perception, it is a case of loss of contact with reality, and highlighted the characteristic of psychosis that people infected by attacks of Hallucinations, and adherence to false beliefs.
These cases are sometimes associated with a lack of vision in the affected person, have difficulty in social interaction with others, and suffer from dysfunction in the performance of their daily tasks.
In short, psychosis is a “loss of connection to reality”, accompanied by some of the patient’s mistaken beliefs, illusions, and hallucinations to see other things and hearing that do not really happen in reality, but only in his imagination.
Causes of psychosis
- Drinking alcohol and drinking some drugs illegally cause psychosis.
- A person with brain diseases; Parkinson’s disease.
- The presence of tumors in the brain in the patient.
- Dementia, the person gets Alzheimer’s and it causes the psychosis.
- The patient has an HIV virus; it affects the brain.
- Some medications, such as steroids and steroids, cause the person to develop psychosis.
- If the patient has epilepsy.
- The patient may experience a stroke; this may cause psychosis.
- Bipolar disorder or (bipolar disorder); causes psychosis in the patient. And severe depression as well.
- If the patient suffers from personality disorders, this may lead to psychosis.
Symptoms of psychosis
- The confused thought of the patient.
- The patient lives in illusions, and builds false beliefs that are not reality.
- The patient lives in unfounded fears.
- The patient is hallucinating with things he sees and does not actually exist, and hears imaginary things from his imagination.
- The patient moves in his conversations from subject to topic in an improper and clear, but confused.
Diagnosis of psychosis
Diagnosis of a person’s psychosis after tests and brain scans, blood tests to see the levels of ions and hormones, and blood tests for syphilis and other diseases, and tests to detect the presence of drugs in the body of the patient, and subject the patient to MRI.
Treatment of psychosis
- The doctor describes the patient’s sedatives.
- The doctor describes the patient’s medications.
- Subjecting the patient to psychotherapy sessions.
- Abstinence from alcohol.