Paranoid psychopathy: description, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

The Leto mental health center provides treatment for hysterical psychopathy in children and adults. If you are faced with this disorder, call 8(969)060-93-93 and make an appointment.

Pathology is characterized by demonstrative behavior. The patient experiences a strong desire to be the center of attention and to receive a positive assessment from others for his every action. Abnormal symptoms begin in childhood and become more severe with age.

There is no need to hope that the disease will go away on its own. This is impossible. Over the years it will only progress. By starting treatment now, you will protect your psyche from irreversible changes.

Information about hysterical psychopathy

The disease is a personality disorder. Its main features:

• self-focus;
• the desire to gain attention at all costs from acquaintances, relatives, and strangers.

Hysteria is equally common in women and men. To stop negative symptoms, you need to determine the cause of the disease. To solve this problem, the Leto clinic carries out comprehensive psychological diagnostics.

Type of illness: excitable psychopathy

Psychopathy is a persistent personality disorder that develops at a fairly early age and lasts almost until the end of life. Any of these pathologies is expressed in a violation of the integrity of the individual, adaptation disorders, and complex relationships with the social environment. Another fairly common type of this disorder is paranoid psychopathy of the excitable type. What exactly is different about this disorder? Its characteristic features are uncontrolled outbursts of aggression and actions inappropriate to the current situation.

Psychopaths suffering from this disorder are very demanding of others, extremely touchy and selfish. They care very little about the opinions of other people; in advanced forms of the disease, patients are not capable of compassion. At the same time, the patient may often be overcome by depression and despair. Most often, the excitable type is found among alcohol addicts, drug addicts and socio-pathological elements (thieves, bandits and other offenders). It is among this type that the largest number of offenders is found, as well as persons who are examined at a forensic medical examination institution.

Causes

There are no exact reasons for the development of the disease. Psychiatrists agree that it is associated with:

• genetic characteristics of a person;
• violations of the education system;
• organic brain damage in childhood.

From their parents, children can inherit increased emotionality, strong impressionability, and an inability to focus on little things. Brain disorders that lead to illness are most often birth injuries, as well as brain damage that occurred during pregnancy or in the first years of life.

There is an opinion that people suffer from hysterical psychopathy due to mistakes made by their parents during the upbringing process. Thus, it is bad if a mother or father instills in a child from an early age attitudes indicating that not everyone can be significant. Classifying people into important and “minor”, ​​they talk about gender and social status. Because of such ideas, in adulthood a person feels inferior if he does not correspond to some parental guidelines.

The psychopath and society

The psychopath quickly benefits from the morals accepted in society, various laws and rules. He endlessly refers to existing moral principles, existing norms. His demagogic references to existing laws are not always openly rude, but are presented taking into account current circumstances and are carefully planned.

Another symptom of paranoid psychopathy is that the patient is able to find in each of his friends the characteristics of a fraudster or an attacker watching him. People often attribute envy to others. It seems to them that others want to harm them - even if these others are doctors. Painful symptoms often manifest themselves in obsessive ideas of jealousy, fanatical monologues, and incessant complaints. It is quite logical that the relationships between paranoid people and others are full of quarrels and misunderstandings.

Symptoms of hysterical psychopathy in men and women

The first dangerous “bells” make themselves felt in childhood or adolescence. This means:

• the patient experiences severe discomfort if no one is looking at him;
• the emotions shown are not sincere, they are usually superficial, feigned;
• frequent mood swings;
• inability to get carried away with something significant;
• desire to have a provocative appearance;
• expressive and elaborate gestures, facial expressions;
• constant attempts to switch the topic of conversation to yourself;
• refusal to discuss other people's problems;
• complaints about the past;
• apathy followed by increased activity;
• lack of sense of responsibility;
• increased suggestibility;
• inadequate assessment of one's own personality.

Psychiatrists easily make a diagnosis if the patient has hysterical psychopathy. The entire appearance of the patient indicates the presence of this disorder.

Principles of communication with the patient

Often those people whose relatives or loved ones suffer from this disease, the question arises: “How to communicate with such a person?” Paranoid psychopathy is a serious disorder. In addition to treatment, a number of rules in communication should be followed with such a patient. Let's look at the main ones.

Firstly, in the process of communication it is necessary to reduce the expression of aggression on the part of the patient. A psychopath is always unpredictable. Therefore, the person next to him must always be on guard. Even an innocent joke can cause such a person to have an attack of anger.

Secondly, a loved one must be able to distract the psychopath’s attention. If the patient's behavior begins to change in a negative direction, you should distract his attention with books or films, or by talking about a favorite topic.

If there is a threat to health or life, you should call for help and run away. After all, a psychopath practically does not feel pain. You should not use force or gas canisters. In this case, the patient will only become even more angry. If a threat arises, you should immediately run away and call other people for help.

Thirdly, you should not enter into conflict with a psychopath. You must behave extremely calmly and kindly. Also, do not quarrel with other people in front of him. The patient may experience an attack of aggression from other people's screams.

Why the disorder needs to be treated

Trying to stand out from others, the psychopath at some point begins to deceive himself. Self-deception often reaches an exaggerated degree. It comes to the point that a person is convinced that he is right, even if he has committed an illegal act, humiliated or insulted someone. It often turns out that thieves, murderers, and maniacs suffer from hysterical disorder. It is because of him that they do not think that they are doing anything wrong.

The disease contributes to a decrease in sexual desire and the development of various somatic pathologies. Often against its background there are:

• fever;
• feeling of a lump in the throat;
• movement disorders;
• stomach ache;
• nausea;
• migraine.

Physiological symptoms are the result of neglected psychosomatics. The nervous system begins to malfunction due to progressive mental disorder. Erroneous signals are sent to the internal organs, which creates the preconditions for pain and general ailments.

Rules of conduct with a female psychopath

Psychopathy is not a character trait, but a serious problem. It is better not to have any relationship with such girls. However, some men choose them for affairs because psychopathic women behave provocatively and offer passionate relationships.

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How should men behave with such women so as not to die? You must adhere to the following rules:

1. Do not go into details of your personal life. You can safely invent stories about yourself, the main thing is not to talk about your most precious and secret things, and not to introduce them to your loved ones.
2. Not only psychologically, but also legally protect yourself. This rule is especially true for wealthy men. Female psychopaths are often on the lookout for someone they can rip off.
3. Never argue, never try to appeal to conscience or rationalism. Psychopaths are okay with the latter, but only personal interests are important to them.

Important! Due to the abnormal functioning of the frontal lobes of the brain, a psychopathic woman cannot control her behavior or become more humane through an effort of will. Therefore, you should not expect much from this relationship, play the rescuer or hope that everything will work out on its own.

Examination of a person for suspected hysterical psychopathy

In the first stages of the disorder, patients quite often independently turn to a psychiatrist. They can still be critical of themselves and understand that they are behaving incorrectly. But, if this stage is missed, the person will no longer be able to behave adequately and react correctly to his own thoughts and actions. Then his relatives will have to persuade him to visit a psychiatric center.

Among the diagnostic criteria for hysterical psychopathy:

• altered (incorrect) perception of one’s own personality;
• mental retardation or, conversely, severe excitability;
• inability to arrange a personal life;
• strange behavior from early childhood;
• difficulties in adapting to a new team;
• constant presence of strong mental stress.

“Talking” symptoms of the disease are demonstrative behavior, a tendency to theatrical manners, excessive display of one’s own emotions, preoccupation with one’s appearance that goes beyond all limits, the desire to always be the center of attention.

When examining a patient, the psychiatrist conducts a conversation, observes, and finds out what complaints there are. Clients often talk about pain in the heart and a feeling of chest compression. Such symptoms most often confirm the presence of psychosomatics, which requires separate treatment.

To make sure that there are no serious brain diseases, the patient is asked to undergo an ultrasound, CT or MRI, and EEG. All these techniques are highly accurate and allow you to thoroughly examine any organ.

Treatment of psychopathy

Currently, this group of mental disorders is defined as character anomalies, personality disharmonies that disrupt adaptation to the surrounding social environment and are often not perceived by the individual as unacceptable, persist throughout life, and are often hardly reversible in advanced cases.

According to international data, psychopathy is very common, reaching from 5 to 15% of the entire adult population. Moreover, men suffer from psychopathy much more often (2 times) than women.

Previously, treatment of psychopathy was carried out with the help of medications and psychotherapy, which somewhat smoothed out the situation, but the development of the disease did not stop. Recent scientific developments, which were carried out in scientific institutes with the participation of our specialists, have shown significant progress in the treatment of psychopathy and personality disorders.

The approach to assessing the patient's condition has been changed and the treatment of psychopathy has become more successful.

Cost of services

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What are the main signs of paranoia and its clinical picture?

The main symptoms of paranoia include such mental manifestations as: • The presence of overvalued ideas that become fixed ideas and haunt the patient throughout his life. At the same time, paranoids are as persistent as possible, spending all their energy and finances on proving the importance of their invention, discovery or method of reforming society. The literature describes a case when a man from Vladivostok “discovered” a new method of fishing, taking into account the location of the stars. He came to Moscow, knocked on the thresholds of various authorities, which gradually began to ignore him, went down and even spent the night at train stations. At the same time, the fate of his family abandoned in Vladivostok - parents, wife and children - did not bother him at all. • Overestimation of the role of one's own personality, leading to delusions of grandeur or persecution. In the first case, the patient considers himself capable of benefiting all of humanity, and in the second, that all the forces of the world are directed against him. For example, a neighbor's dog barks because the neighbors tease her to spite him, March cats yell specifically to disturb his sleep, children in the yard make noise in order to annoy him, etc. • Pathological suspicion, in which a person sees in everything the machinations of enemies and ill-wishers. He connects even the most insignificant events into a conspiracy theory he has built against himself. All this is accompanied by suspiciousness, rancor, vindictiveness, an inadequate assessment of criticism and a complete lack of a critical attitude towards one’s own actions. The patient does not accept other people's opinions; it is useless to prove the fallacy and inconsistency of his ideas. The paranoid person is convinced that everyone around him wants to harm him, take away his property, downplay his merits, exploit him and try to manipulate him in their own interests. As a result, a hostile attitude towards everyone around is formed, which, during an attack of acute paranoia, can turn into aggressive actions and make the patient dangerous even for the closest people. • Extreme susceptibility to stressful situations. The state of passion lasts a long time and with any memory of it “comes to life with renewed vigor. Even if a paranoid person does not show his emotions, then only with an eye to future revenge, because... he does not forgive insults. One’s own failures and mistakes are experienced very acutely due to wounded pride. Paranoids are extremely ambitious, characterized by arrogance and a tendency to overestimate their abilities and achievements.

Diagnosis of paranoid state

To understand the cause of the problem and understand how to get rid of it, you need to make an appointment with a psychiatrist. The doctor will conduct a survey to identify the origins of the disorder.

At the diagnostic stage the following are used:

• conversation;
• psychological techniques;
• pathopsychological testing;
• neurotests;
• physiological testing.

It is important for the doctor to observe the patient’s movements, her manner of speaking, and habits, so an in-person consultation is mandatory. Employees receive patients at the hospital or go to patients’ homes. You can choose the optimal primary diagnostic option for yourself.