Motor excitement or inhibition

Introduction The main symptoms of acute stress response are disturbance of consciousness (such as disorientation, attention deficit) accompanied by strong emotional changes and excitement or inhibition of mental activity (excitement, agitation, shouting, turmoil, increase, emotional outburst). A transient mental disorder caused by a sudden and unusually intense mental stimulation, a stressful life event or a persistent dilemma. If the stressor is eliminated, the symptoms tend to be short-lived, with a good prognosis and complete remission. Reducing the stimulating effects of intense, unusual mental stimulation, life events or persistent distress can play a preventive role.

Cause

A transient mental disorder caused by a sudden and unusually intense mental stimulation, a stressful life event or a persistent dilemma.

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After the recovery, the patient may not be able to recall all of them.

Some patients present with psychomotor excitement or inhibition with a strong emotional experience. Psychomotor exciters, expressed as excitement, agitation, restlessness, increased speech, content related to the factors of the disease, with exaggerated color, reduced nighttime sleep, etc., used to be called reactive mania. Psychomotor inhibitors are less common, manifested as retreat to the surrounding environment, silent, or staying in the woods, sitting or lying in bed for a long time, no emotional exposure, similar to the sub-wood state.

diagnosis:

First, there are abnormal and serious stress events as the cause of the disease.

Second, the occurrence of mental symptoms and stressors are closely related in time, and more often occur in a few minutes or hours.

Third, the main symptoms are disturbance of consciousness (such as disorientation, attention deficit) accompanied by strong emotional changes and emotional excitement or inhibition (excitement, agitation, shouting, turmoil, increase, emotional outburst).

Fourth, the symptoms last for a short time, from hours to a week.

Differential diagnosis

Psychomotor excitement: Coordinated psychomotor excitement refers to an increase in the patient's speech and movements consistent with thinking and emotional activities, and coordination with the environment. This increase in activity is purposeful and understandable. Non-coordinated psychomotor excitement refers to the inconsistency between the patient's movements and speech and the thinking and emotions. The patient's movements and speech are monotonous, lacking purpose and meaning, and it is difficult to understand. Therefore, the whole mental activity seems uncoordinated.

Uncoordinated excitement is manifested in the inconsistency between thoughts and feelings and their movements, and is common in schizophrenia.

After the recovery, the patient may not be able to recall all of them. Some patients present with psychomotor excitement or inhibition with a strong emotional experience. Psychomotor exciters, expressed as excitement, agitation, restlessness, increased speech, content related to the factors of the disease, with exaggerated color, reduced nighttime sleep, etc., used to be called reactive mania. Psychomotor inhibitors are less common, manifested as retreat to the surrounding environment, silent, or staying in the woods, sitting or lying in bed for a long time, no emotional exposure, similar to the sub-wood state.

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