Excessive alcohol to anything good does not. The effects might be alcoholic paranoid delusional psychosis, acquired an acute form. Man always think, if someone pursues it, something causeless fears. As a rule, this state is preceded by prolonged for one month a harmful addiction to alcoholic drinks. Before you unpack, it would be appropriate to review the stages of alcoholism.
The initial stage of alcoholic paranoia
Already the initial stage manifests itself not as the drunkenness in the usual sense. At first the gag reflex disappears, even for very large (with time increasing) doses of intoxicating drink.
The daily rate is often not limited to one reception, that leads to problems with the liver (hepatitis), stomach (gastritis), pancreas (pancreatitis). At this stage the drinker sick whiskey, worried about dystonia. Treatment is quite successful due to application of complex measures, after all, a strong attachment to the abuse have not had time to develop.
Alcoholic paranoid: middle stage
More than ever drawn to alcohol, from the reception which it is impossible to resist. The use of liquids with low or high content of ethyl happens regularly. The patient becomes a slave to his desire, and not even trying to resist.
The "hallmark" of this stage is the presence of a hangover. It makes itself known on the third or fourth day from the time, how the decision was made on the categorical rejection of alcohol.
In some cases, every day, drunk a large quantity of alcohol, and others binges occur periodically and take 7 to 21 day. As a rule, breaks are forced, for example, because of lack of funds, turmoil in the family or changes in health status for the worse.
Middle stage is usually delayed for three or five years. During this period, acute psychosis, developing a great fascination with alcohol. Such patients are better directed to psychiatric hospitals.
The last stage
Symptoms, appeared at the previous stage, compounded. They added new signs. Although not so rampant, I want to satisfy the need for alcohol, but just even after one drink of attraction is reborn anew. The alcoholic becomes drunk after an overturned glass of vodka. In this state it is immersed for a long time, and then seriously it goes.
Under this stage, the person daily consumes a meager doses (1-1,5 little glasses), but often, at intervals of one hour. Describes the outrage lasts a few days.
Causes and types of alcoholic paranoia
Was set the fact, that the tendency towards alcohol paranoid have individuals with a previously identified epileptic form of psychopathy. The, who has some mental problems, recognizable by the presence of a number of specific features:
- paying too much attention to the minor details;
- too principled, sensitive;
- emergency care, frugality;
- th measure accurately and adheres to all.
People keep commenting on such a person the expression of diametrically opposed forms of behaviour: first, he's obsequious, but very quickly gets enraged and becomes stubborn. He was not actually anything to forgive, long offended. As soon as the case will take revenge. People, with epileptic character, enjoy, hurting other people.
There are three types of alcoholic paranoia:
- Alcoholic gone for a long time on a binge can visit the abortive alcoholic paranoid, having much in common with the acute phase. Although last longer than a few hours delayed.
- At the onset of prolonged psychosis, associated with alcoholism, converted as impulsive nervously-mental excitation (affect) and nonsense. The fear loses its meaning., giving way to anxiety. Transformirovalsya sensually illusory component of the nonsense, when imagining, if someone specifically intends to hurt. Not looking to this person, it is difficult to detect deviations in his psyche. Apparently, its name – "lingering" – this type was due to the fact, that the patient does not come out of it a few months.
- Since the appearance of the first symptoms of acute alcoholic paranoia and before the onset of the active phase may take at least three days, and high – five. The alcoholic does not leave the state of weakness, pressure bad mood, appears weak desire to eat, bad sleep. At night he notes the increase heart rate, become unreasonably scared and anxious.
Treated acute alcoholic paranoid from 45 days. As a result, the patient needs to get rid of the deception of perception and thoughts do not correspond to reality.
The symptoms and treatment of the disease
Alcoholic paranoid preceded by a period of alcohol abuse, followed by a sharp rejection of it. In the first place, the patient seems to be, being watched and want to hurt. All overheard, he sees a secret intent, directed against his person.
The patient is afraid to be there, where it is dark. He sits at home, isolating yourself from the world; avoids contact with other members of the human society. He's scared and then, when he sits in your house or apartment in the daytime. Under the influence of visual hallucinations, the patient becomes even worse. Such pain can last up to 21 day.
Insights
Alcoholic paranoid is a serious condition. About any treatment at home with this diagnosis may not speak – only as a whole in a psychiatric hospital, while in the group of patients.