Lesson 4: Psychosis
Lesson Review
This lesson focused on a number of very serious personality disturbances. Each one has different causes, symptoms, and treatments.
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To summarize: • Psychosis is a serious state of mental disruption or abnormality. A person with psychosis may be withdrawn and have confused ideas about reality. • A stigma is attached to psychotic behaviour, which means that it is viewed as shameful or disgraceful. • When panic attacks occur, people feels such intense anxiety that they fear they may be having heart attacks. • People with paranoia are insecure individuals who have arrogant, superior attitudes and distorted, suspicious views of their relationships with others called delusions. • Manic-depressive disorders are sometimes referred to as bipolar depression because they involve extreme mood changes from being depressed to being extremely elated. • Schizophrenia is a serious and common mental illness. Reality becomes separated from appropriate responses and emotions • Schizophrenics may hear voices in their heads or lose sense of who they are. Serious chemical imbalance may be one of the main factors. • People who are involved with various forms of self-injurious behaviours are often those who have abusive pasts. They are turning their anger inward to hurt themselves as cries for help. • Alcohol psychosis may develop when individual’s have a serious and prolonged drinking problem. • Alzheimer’s Disease is caused by degeneration of the brain cells affecting memory, judgment, communication skills, and physical coordination. • The different kinds of psychosis may be treated in a number of different ways. • The eclectic approach involves taking the best parts of a number of different theories to build one theory. • Electroconvulsive shock therapy is one form of treatment that has many strong supporters and many adversaries. • Drug therapy with a number of different antipsychotic drugs has been successful in many cases. • Play therapy can be used for some types of behavioural disorders affecting young children. • Psychoanalysis utilizes the theories of Sigmund Freud and studies psychosis by examining childhood experiences. • Multiple personalities is a serious type of psychosis that occurs when childhood traumas may cause people to dissociate or fragment their identities. |