There are numerous forms of psychosis, including types of schizophrenia, manic and paranoid psychoses, hysterical psychoses, and others.
Manic depression: You are trapped on an emotional roller coaster: at times you are depressed (see Sec.
Mood Disturbances (Affective Disorders) There are three primary mood disorders: depression, mania, and manic depression.
He noted, too, that stupors frequently terminated in manic phases of 20 to 30 days’ duration.
For example, there are religious and erotic fancies or ambitious schemes dominating the thoughts of manic patients, fears of aggression and injury met with in anxiety cases, and so on.
His cases seem mainly to have been what we call absorbed manics or manic stupors.
Manic states (usually hypomanic) frequently occur during the phase of recovery from the stupor.
A vision of a new world is a content occurring not infrequently in manic states, but before the universe can be remolded it must be destroyed.
One cannot make any classification of the ideas he quotes, but it is apparent from all his description that the minds of these “manic stupors” are not a blank but rather that there is a fairly full mental content.
This procedure is not questioned, because themanic reaction as distinguished from a mania is well recognized.
She claimed to remember the Observation Pavilion and her coming to the hospital, also the incidents during the manic state, when she heard cannon and thought a war was on, and voices she could not recognize nor understand.
After a second confinement, at the age of 26, the patient had her first attack of manic excitement, from which she recovered in four months.
Of course almost any type of functional psychosis may emerge from such a state of dissatisfaction, but it is important to note that unlike manic states, for instance, stupors invariably develop from a situation of unhappiness.
Quite similarly, when a manic tendency is present, it occurs either in little bursts of isolated symptoms of elation (such as smiling or episodic pranks), or some of the evidences of elation which we would expect are missing.
When death means union with God or appears in other religious guise, manic symptoms tend to develop.
When a psychiatrist meets with an undeveloped manic state, he calls it a hypomania and does not hesitate to make this diagnosis in the absence of complete development into a florid excitement.
The next two cases represent two special types of psychoses: one a chronic manic and the other a definite praecox with recurrent attacks.
If we are to regard it as a psychosis then we expect it to show other reactions, just as dementia praecox shows manic depressive symptoms.
A year later (June 1905) a frank psychosis with considerable manic flavor developed.
Such a case is usually diagnosed as a chronic manic or a dementia praecox, according to the taste of the examiner.
Circular insanity of over twenty years' standing; at time of test patient was in a manic phase.
There is a definitely pathological trend to the cyclothymic, and in its most marked form one sees the recurring depressions and excitement of Manic Depressive Insanity.
This type of uncontrolled energy reaches its height in the manical or manic phase of the disease already described as manic depressive insanity.
Weygandt interprets this case as one of hypomania, remarking that war influences may serve to bring out preëxisting manic depressive tendencies.
Lépine remarks that Pierret and others, observing such spells of confusion often accompanied by agitation, have inquired whether manic depressive psychosis is not a kind of epilepsy.
He paused, then resumed argumentatively: "Then there are other questions, too, like that of genius with its close relation to manic depressive insanity.
Then Atherton launched into a description of how he had striven to find a girl who had the strong qualities his family germ plasm seemed to have lost, mainly, I gathered, resistance to a taint much like manic depressive insanity.
They had a grandfather who was a manic depressive on the Atherton side," said Crafts slowly.
The manicricher kneht of St. XXXIV are also squires, the same as the edeln knehte at the end of the poem.
