Delirium occurs against a background of mental illness
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and often is the leading or sole manifestation of them. In most cases, delirium combined with other signs of mental disorder, such as hallucinations, various disorders of consciousness.
Types delusional syndromes
Delusional syndromes are mental disorders
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In which the primary feature is the delusions - false, is not associated with objective reality and concrete life situation judgment or idea arises in the mind of the patient and fully engross them. Brad can not be dissuasion, because the patient is absolutely convinced of the correctness of their judgments.
Delusional syndromes accompany mental illnesses such as manic-depressive syndrome, schizophrenia and organic (in the aftermath of trauma, infections and tumors), brain disease, its vascular lesions and chronic poisoning (intoxication, such as alcohol abuse).
The main syndromes are paranoid delusional, paranoid and paraphrenic.
Paranoid delusional syndrome
Paranoia - this is nonsense, that develops with a clear conscious and often with normal intellectual abilities and skills. At the heart of paranoid delirium is often overvalued idea - the belief that developed under the influence of objectively existing life circumstances. But the patient gives overvalued idea of too much importance, which it does not deserve. Gradually such overvalued idea is cluttered with new speculation and becomes a systematized paranoid delusions, which can be acute or chronic.
Chronic poranoyyalny syndrome manifests itself gradually. Initially, there is the idea of persecution (for example, for some real action). Initially, the patient is usually afraid of harassment at work, trouble with the neighbors, making plans and carries out some action to address the threat. Over time, there is a risk of physical destruction, which requires more than action. Patients turn in on themselves, fenced off from the outside world, or, on the contrary, attack on the "enemies", performing a variety of illegal activities. Sometimes paranoia
Paranoia - explicit symptoms are not observed
manifested delusions of grandeur, of invention, of social transformation.
Patients with paranoid delusions
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They have certain traits: they are suspicious, circumstantial, vindictive.
Acute paranoid syndrome is most often expressed by the sudden appearance of anxiety, fear, or, on the contrary, against the background of rapturous ecstasy of a fictional judgment. Acute paranoid delusions characterized by strong emotional experiences that often contributes to the appearance of patients a high degree of aggressiveness. Paranoid delusions often occurs, for example, schizophrenia.
Paranoid delusional syndrome
Paranoid or hallucinatory-paranoid syndrome - a syndrome manifested by delusions of persecution and sensory disorders in the form of verbal (word), hallucinations and mental automatism ("flood" and impose "alien" thoughts).
When paranoid delusions of persecution syndrome in addition, there may be other delusions - poisoning, causing physical injury, jealousy, spying. Most often associated delusions of persecution and impact. The patient believes that he is under constant surveillance, watching his every move and harm him. Often, the "enemies" are able to manage all of his thoughts and feelings, make him make those or other actions.
Paranoid syndrome often develop chronic, but can also occur acutely. Acute paranoid delusions is a combination of sensual imagery of delirium with hallucinations (the patient sees, hears and feels what is not), pseudohallucinations (patients see, hear and feel something inner eye), and the influx of "foreign" ideas in my head (syndrome of mental automatism ). Patients with the condition are at a loss, unaccountable anxiety. Bred in this case is fragmentary, unsystematic and patients do not even try to delusions some interpretation.
Paranoid syndrome usually occurs in chronic diseases, such as schizophrenia.
Paraphrenic delusional syndrome
Paraphrenia (fantaziofreniya, fantastically paranoid syndrome) - a syndrome that is dominated by the fantastic delusions content, often combines the grandiose delusions of grandeur with ideas of persecution or exposure to, and often with auditory hallucinations or pseudohallucinations. The degree of systematization and fantastic delusions can be different.
Often such nonsense combined with verbal (verbal), hallucinations, false recognition. Patients talk about the impact on a variety of fantastic devices, meetings with famous people.
Parafrenichesky syndrome occurs in chronic ongoing illness often followed by other mental changes, including paranoid and paranoid syndrome is a sign of disease progression.
Prevention of progression delusional syndromes is their early detection and treatment.
Galina Romanenko