What Is Affective Psychosis?

Heredity plays an important role in the etiology of the disease. Personal characteristics before illness: Some are good communication, enthusiastic, lively, and energetic; some are quiet, temperate, lack self-confidence, and easy to be pessimistic; some alternately appear mildly happy and sad. Emotional ups and downs are the leading symptoms of the disease. Clinically, there are two completely different manifestations of mania and depression. Mania is characterized by elevated emotions, thoughtfulness, and increased will. Patients are cheerful and joyful, but easily irritated and irritated; thoughts speed up, speech can flow endlessly, and they move with the environment; vigorous energy, reduced sleep, increased activity, and love Nosy business, hypersexuality; in the context of rising emotions, exaggerated delusions can occur, and delusions can occur when frustrated. These delusions are secondary, and as the mood returns to normal, delusions also disappear. Depression is characterized by depressed mood, slow thinking, and weakened will; patients are sad, self-blame, despair, and those with severe suicidal ideas and actions; mental retardation, difficulty in association, dumbness, indifferent interest, hesitation, slow response, and reduced activity , Even in a stiff state; some patients with emotional anxiety, manifested as upset, restless, like an ant on a hot pot, I do not know what to do. Physical symptoms include insomnia, fatigue, loss of appetite, and low sexual function. In the context of low moods, sinful delusions, relationship delusions, and victim delusions can occur. In the context of somatic symptoms, there may be delusions of suspected illness. These delusions are secondary. As the mood returns to normal, somatic symptoms disappear, and delusions also disappear. The course of the disease is periodic; some patients have alternate episodes of mania and depression, while others have only mania or depression; the average duration of each episode of mania or depression is about 6 months with each episode After that, it was completely restored to normal during the rest period, and the mental activity was complete without decline.

Affective psychosis

Affective psychosis: A group of psychosis that uses emotional disorder as the primary symptom, is a recurrent episode, and is completely normal during the interval. Also known as manic depressive psychosis.

Affective psychosis

Heredity plays an important role in the etiology of the disease. Personal characteristics before illness: Some are good communication, enthusiastic, lively, and energetic; some are quiet, temperate, lack self-confidence, and easy to be pessimistic; some alternately appear mildly happy and sad. Emotional ups and downs are the leading symptoms of the disease. Clinically, there are two completely different manifestations of mania and depression. Mania is characterized by elevated emotions, thoughtfulness, and increased will. Patients are cheerful and joyful, but easily irritated and irritated; thoughts speed up, speech can flow endlessly, and they move with the environment; vigorous energy, reduced sleep, increased activity, and love Nosy business, hypersexuality; in the context of rising emotions, exaggerated delusions can occur, and delusions can occur when frustrated. These delusions are secondary, and as the mood returns to normal, delusions also disappear. Depression is characterized by depressed mood, slow thinking, and weakened will; patients are sad, self-blame, desperate, and those with severe suicidal ideas and actions; mental retardation, difficulty in association, dumbness, indifferent interest, hesitation, slow response, and reduced activity , Even in a stiff state; some patients with emotional anxiety, manifested as upset, restless, like an ant on a hot pot, I do not know what to do. Physical symptoms include insomnia, fatigue, loss of appetite, and low sexual function. In the context of low moods, sinful delusions, relationship delusions, and victim delusions can occur. In the context of somatic symptoms, there may be delusions of suspected illness. These delusions are secondary. As the mood returns to normal, somatic symptoms disappear, and delusions also disappear. The course of the disease is periodic; some patients have alternate episodes of mania and depression, while others have only mania or depression; the average duration of each episode of mania or depression is about 6 months with each episode After that, it was completely restored to normal during the rest period, and the mental activity was complete without decline.

Mania is treated with lithium carbonate, antipsychotics, and electroconvulsions; depression is treated with electroconvulsions and antidepressants; and those with frequent alternating mania and depression should be treated and prevented with lithium carbonate.

Manic-depressive psychosis

Also known as cyclic psychosis, periodic psychosis. The period of depression and restlessness is often present, and the middle period is normal. The disease is a mental illness characterized mainly by emotional disorders. The above periods are called depression and mania. In addition, there are not alternate, but only one kind of morbid. This disease is considered a quality disease. Judging from the correlation between this disease and obesity, the occurrence of this disease can be imagined to have some physiological process, but it is still unclear. There are superiority genetics theory and ternary factor theory (1 superiority factor and 2 inferiority factors). From the perspective of empirical genetic prognosis or practical experience in psychiatry, the superiority genetic theory is the most powerful, but it cannot be denied Some facts indicate that it is related to inferiority, and the relationship is very complicated. This disease is different from schizophrenia and is not a long-term persistent severe mental illness. According to the statistics of H. Luxenburger, the general human incidence rate is 0.44%, which is generally consistent with the situation in Japan, and there is no national difference.

Treatment of affective psychosis

Medication is still the treatment of choice for affective psychosis. Prompt treatment generally has a better prognosis. The success of the first treatment determines the course of the disease and its development. Therefore, it is very important to help children with systemic drug treatment. Parents must overcome the psychological effects of eagerly losing their child's "mental illness" hat, and work closely with the doctor to complete the entire treatment process.

Emotional Psychiatry Psychiatric "Emotional Nursing"

The causes of mental illness are mainly emotional factors, so the treatment of mental illness requires the use of some psychological treatments. For the treatment of inductive psychosis, patients with mental illness need not only some medical treatment, but also the psychological comfort and help of relatives and relatives around them.

In fact, mental illness often occurs in life, but many people are not too severe, and their emotional abnormalities are not obvious enough. The treatment of mental illness is inseparable from the psychological comfort of family members and relatives, and the care of the entire society. Let us let go of our enthusiasm, send a care, a warmth to all the mentally ill, and leave a happiness for ourselves!

Affective psychiatric symptoms

Emotional upsurges are associated with accelerated association, too much activity, too much talk and exaggeration. This is called a manic episode or mania. Depression is accompanied by pessimism, lack of fun, and lack of energy that slows movements and thinking. This is called a depressive episode or depression.

Depression or manic episodes that occur when you have other mental or physical illnesses are called secondary affective psychosis. People with emotional symptoms as the primary are called primary emotional psychosis. ^[1]