People can have serious perception and thought disorders and so do not know reality {psychosis}|. Psychoses can be organic or functional. Severe mental illness is rare. Psychosis is equally frequent in both sexes. Psychoses can originate in childhood.
Psychosis {functional psychosis} can involve psychological factors with no obvious body or brain diseases, such as faulty interactions in family. Functional psychoses include schizophrenia, affective psychosis, manic-depressive psychosis, involutional melancholia, and paranoia. Biochemical brain changes can cause functional psychoses.
Functional psychosis {manic-depressive psychosis} {affective psychosis} {bipolar affective disorder}| can involve mood extremes: first, flighty ideas and wildness and then profound apathy, despair, and little control. Manic-depression can be hereditary but also happens to extroverts under stress. Difficult life, bereavement, and loss can cause manic-depression. 15% of manic-depressive people die by suicide. Lithium prevents relapses.
Loss, menopause, middle age, or morbid feelings can cause agitated depression and functional psychosis {involutional melancholia}.
Psychosis {organic psychosis} can result from brain degenerative structural changes. Organic psychoses include senile dementia, presenile dementia, arteriosclerotic dementia, and alcoholic dementia.
Adolescent or young adult males {sociopath}| {antisocial psychopath} can be unable to conform to society rules.
symptoms
They cannot tolerate minor frustrations. They cannot form stable human relationships. They do not learn from experiences. They act impulsively or recklessly. They feel predominantly inadequate, aggressive, or creative.
effect
They typically die from accidents, suicide, or alcoholism.
treatment
Treatment to learn rational judgment and gain will to control antisocial behavior can help sociopaths. Medical treatment is currently useless or unused. By middle life, many sociopaths have adapted to society, without medical treatment.
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