What Is an Acute Psychotic Disorder?

Any symptoms or signs of mental disorders can be called mental disorders. According to the cause, it can be divided into non-organic mental disorder and organic mental disorder. According to the degree of incidence can be divided into severe mental disorders, non-severe mental disorders.

Basic Information

English name: acute and transient psychotic disorders
Visiting department: Psychiatry

Common causes: Closely related to individual social factors, psychological factors, physical factors, and moral factors
Contagious: no

Causes of Acute Transient Mental Disorder

Acute transient mental disorders caused by external stimuli are the most common in psychogenic mental disorders, and the incidence factors are closely related to individual social, psychological, physical, and moral factors.

Social factors

With the rapid development of modern technology, dense urban populations, various noise, air and water pollution, accelerated living rhythms, traffic congestion, fierce competition, housing difficulties, unemployment, laid-offs, natural disasters, and increased interpersonal conflicts, all Everything can easily cause anxiety and tension, and become an important source of mental disorders.

2. Psychological factors

Psychological factors are closely related to mental disorders. Some foreign scholars believe that normal and abnormal behaviors are the result of conflicts between conscious and unconscious desire driving or instinct. Psychological disorder or mental illness is mainly the result of anxiety and emotional defense response due to the conflict of subconscious conflicts between the desire of the self and the control of the superego. This contradiction begins from infancy, and requires a strong struggle against social constraints based on biological instinctual desires. In order to alleviate the anxiety caused by the contradiction between the self and the superego, I have developed various means to prevent anxiety, that is, the psychological defense mechanism. Those who can manage to minimize internal psychological conflicts by developing effective coping strategies (or defense mechanisms) are mental health. The intentional or unintentional overuse of individual or centralized defense mechanisms that dominates an individual's personality and develops or impairs his effective functioning will lead to some psychological abnormality or mental disorder.

3. Moral factors

Insulting people, beating people, exaggerating performances, etc. also involve personality issues.

Clinical manifestations of acute transient mental disorder

Suddenly stimulated by the outside world, every normal person may have more or less symptoms of acute transient mental disorders, such as depression, anxiety, increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, redness or redness in the face, pale face, cold sweats, weak limbs, etc., and even appear Hostility, but most people can calm their mindset in a short time, there are a few people can not control their emotions, and even violence hurts others, such as traffic accidents.

(1) Anti-social personality disorder refers to some conduct disorder or mental disorder that violates social laws and regulations, and is highly offensive and free from shame.

(2) People with paranoid personality disorder become stubborn, sensitive and suspicious, over-alert, narrow-minded, jealous, over-evaluated, experience themselves being too important, tend to be objective, refuse to accept criticism, and are overly sensitive to frustration and failure. When in doubt, they are prone to controversy, sophistry, and even impulse, attack, and combativeness.

(3) Divided personality disorder. This kind of person does not love communication, lacks emotions and indifference, not only ca nt experience joy, but also lacks warmth, and has few hobbies. He is overly sensitive and shy, timid, and quirky. He has bad reactions to praise and criticism. ; Have not lost the ability to recognize reality, but often show isolated behavior, tend to introspective concealment; poor mobility, lack of aggressiveness. Take a non-involving attitude towards interpersonal relationships; lack of interest; lack of close, close friends.

(4) Compulsive personality disorder This type of person is characterized by laziness, indecision, suspicion and step-by-step. They demanded themselves to a high standard, hoping that what they could do was flawless, repeated inspections afterwards, demanding details. For this they show anxiety, tension and distress. They have a strong sense of morality, too much self-restraint, too much self-care and responsibility, they are usually cautious, cautious, too cautious about their own safety, and their thinking is not relaxed; plan all actions in advance, and consider too detailed; excessively pedantic, Stereotype and stubbornness; although such people can get a stable marriage and achieve success at work, they still have very few close friends.

(5) Performing personality disorder This type of person is characterized by immature personality and emotional instability. They often attract self-performance, excessive contrition and exaggerated behavior; they are particularly suggestive and dependent, self-indulgent, unwilling Think for others and show a high degree of self-centeredness; extreme emotions, emotional changes, and excitement; shallow emotions make it difficult for people to maintain long-term social relationships with their surroundings; longing for long-term understanding and evaluation, feeling vulnerable; fantasy Sex, often think of imagination as reality; keep on stimulating, can't stand loneliness, and hope that life is as lively and restless as acting; appearance behavior shows inappropriate provocativeness, dressed up to show off, even flirt and seduce people.

(6) Impulsive personality disorder This type of person is mainly characterized by emotional instability and lack of impulsive control. Outbreaks of violence or threats are common, especially when others criticize them. Such people often burst out with very strong anger and impulsiveness due to small stimuli, and they can not restrain themselves at all, and then violent aggressive behavior may occur. Such sudden changes in mood and behavior are not the same as usual. They are normal when they don't have an attack, and they regret what they did during the attack, but they cannot prevent it from happening again. This impulsive episode is also often caused by a small amount of alcohol.