How drugs affect the body

(Cocaine, marijuana and ecstasy)
How you affect.
As we know, over the last decade there was a significant rise in drug use, so that even today, many men still affected by its vestiges. According to one study, higher consumption of drugs during the past two decades were cocaine, marijuana and ecstasy, so we'll focus on them.

With regard to cocaine, which can be less dependent if the seas has absorbed through the nose, that if you have you smoked or injected, but any of these forms is extremely damaging. Mangle aspirations you the inside of the nose, smoking will cause respiratory problems, and injected you produce all the dangers associated with needles without hygiene.

It's easy to become an addicted to cocaine because of their sense of well-being. However, according increase your dose, the sensations are replaced by hyperactivity, nausea, insomnia, weight loss, nervousness and chronic paranoia, among others. If you continue using it for some time, your mental state may be similar to a patient of paranoid psychosis.

Most of the time that smoking marijuana you feel very good, but you can also suffer short periods of panic attacks and anxiety. In higher doses suffer severe psychological dysfunction and confusion. Smoke for several years can cause respiratory problems and even lung cancer.

Ecstasy is regarded today as the fashionable drug. Although it is said that not addictive and is not very dangerous, is as bad as marijuana. In high doses, their bad experiences include anxiety, panic, confusion, insomnia, psychosis and hallucinations that you can leave with a poor psychological condition momentary.

There is evidence that Ecstasy can cause damage to the liver, and maybe that affects your immune system and brain cells. We have identified dozens of cases of people who have died collapsed instantly, apparently by the effects of the drug.

It is never advisable to take ecstasy, but is especially harmful if you suffer from high blood pressure, glaucoma, epilepsy or have a poor physical or mental condition.
How to recover. The only way to recover any of these drugs, leaving them completely at once. With the greatest problems that you can have is with cocaine, since one week after having left, leads a kind of malaise that encourages reuse. If you lie with her, you can reach notion of losing your personal life and live for their addiction.

Marijuana and ecstasy are easier to leave, you only need the firm intention of doing so. In fact, the only way to recover any of the three, is to have the firm conviction that every day that passes without using your body to do well. The secret is to keep motivated.

There are various institutions that help you keep that motivation, but finally you're the only one who can do it. How long you take. Apart from the fact that most drugs will kill neurons in your brain, all other damages may be gradually disappearing. We can not talk about a specific time of recovery, as the drug residues take a long time to disappear.

In the case of cocaine, the damage inside your nose may take even longer to alleviated. Unless you've been the victim of an overdose, will never be too late to stop any drug.

How to live with a psychotic?

• It's normal to feel concerned, anguished, confused and guilty to see that someone wanted to close or suffer psychosis. The first thing is to seek help on two fronts.
On the one hand the patient needs to explain to him what happens and what requires treatment.
Moreover, their families, couples and families need guidance and information to find out how they can collaborate in the process of assessment, treatment and recovery.
It is best to go to the doctor or to community mental health service, where it will provide practical guidance and you will be referred to other specialists if necessary.

• Do not try to bring the full weight alone. If you can not get accurate advice, persists. The psychosis is a complex problem that requires an experienced professional to manage.

• When you find, set him a "pact therapeutic." Try to make it clear what are the common objectives for the benefit of the person concerned and establish close collaboration with the professional.

• Become the idea that psychotic symptoms will create stress to everyone nearby. If you feel confused, sad or hopeless for having to live with the disorder, talks about.

• It is possible that the patient, during the most acute phase, need an environment safer and more reassuring than usual. Sometimes you're asked to help you make decisions.

• Do not be offended if I said things that hurt him. There he speaks, speaks psychosis.

• It is possible that this fixed ideas clearly erroneous. Do not attempt to rebut through lengthy talks sound: ultimately frustrated.

• Try to understand the stage at which the ill-bewilderment, distrust towards others, despair, beginning of the recovery-and try to mold your help is to it. For example, at the stage of perplexity is important to give clear and concrete information, and the distrust of limiting as much as possible attempts to convince their mistakes.

• Beware. Remember that although the process will be slow, there is a strong chance that the patient recovers. To help, you must be well.

How to prevent psychosis?

The psychiatrist at Columbia University Ezra S. Susser is conducting a follow-up of child development "high risk" in trying to identify early warning signs that may help prevent psychosis.
Those who seem more involved in the psychotic disorder are:

• complications during birth.
• Difficulties in maintaining attention.
• Poor coordination muscle.
• Conduct emotionally unpredictable.
• Mother with schizophrenia serious and lasting.
• Separation or divorce of parents.
• Behavior revolt or retracted.
• Games and lonely little relation to other children.

Violence and psychosis

The idea that psychosis involves violence is widespread and is one of the causes of bias toward the psychotic. This is a controversial even for experts.

The psychiatrist Jeffrey W. Swanson tries to find the circumstances leading to some of these individuals to commit aggressive acts that seem random, inexplicable and unpredictable.

Swanson has been found in their studies that a severe mental illness multiplied by five the risk of violence, and believes that some symptoms can serve as warning signs, for example, ideas paranoid-people who feel persecuted react by attacking the alleged assailant, drug use and a history of aggressive behavior in childhood and adolescence.

Other authors such as J. Monahan disagree with this causal relationship. According to this psychiatrist, the cause of many violent acts of psychotic drugs that are attributed to the disorder and not the substance, but according to their data, there are no differences in risk among people consuming disorder with or without disorder.

In any case, the combination drug-psychosis is a very likely indicator of aggressive behavior.

Symptoms of a psychotic

The sense of Political decoy brings us closer to the field of psychosis, a type of mental disorders in Spain that affect 440,000 people, according to the Congress for Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia and other psychoses, 2006.

To focus the issue, should be distinguished from psychotic disorders of the neurotic; those-such as depression-affecting the mood, but do not "lose your head", while the psychosis is characterized by the loss of a sense of reality and the vision of the world that shares the generality of humans.

Woody Allen said that "a psychotic is someone who thinks that two two are five, a neurotic knows that there are four but does not like." According to the psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, there is another difference: "in psychiatry is a person qualifies for neurotic if you suffer for their problems, and if you suffer from psychotic to others."

The most common symptoms of psychosis are in the form of cognitive disorders, perceptive, emotional and behavioural. The first-the cognitive-affecting intelligence, reason and understanding and make, for example, ideas of who suffers from becoming strangers to each other.

It also alters the thread of thought: no one understands the relationship they have with some other ideas except the affected. His speech becomes confused, his thoughts seem to accelerate or slow down and has difficulty concentrating, follow the thread of the conversation or remembering recent events.

Sometimes cree suffers from delusions and unusual things, for example, by the way that cars parked next to his house, thinks that the police are monitoring him and any reasoning or evidence against achieved disappointments.

Alzheimer and Senile Dementia

The senile dementia consists on a psychic deep, global and progressive deterioration that alter the intellectual alcoholatura features and you disintegrate the social behavior in some old men (on or about in the 4 for 100). The lawsuits of the senile dementia are very diverse. The hereditary factor is the most important. You are families with a precocious deterioration of the mental abilities. They also have your importance the environmental factors, genus of life, toxics, infections, etc., and mainly the fact of being reached the brain by the general involución of the senile organism.

The symptoms are set up gradually, although sometimes, after some illness or psychic important trauma, the previous unstable balance can collapse and to show the symptoms almost suddenly.Alzheimer and Senile Dementia

The senile dementia consists on a psychic deep, global and progressive deterioration that alter the intellectual alcoholatura features and you disintegrate the social behavior in some old men (on or about in the 4 for 100). The lawsuits of the senile dementia are very diverse. The hereditary factor is the most important. You are families with a precocious deterioration of the mental abilities. They also have your importance the environmental factors, genus of life, toxics, infections, etc., and mainly the fact of being reached the brain by the general involución of the senile organism.

The symptoms are set up gradually, although sometimes, after some illness or psychic important trauma, the previous unstable balance can collapse and to show the symptoms almost suddenly.

The alcoholatura symptoms are the following ones: behavioral disorders; (day little activity, occupations esteriotipadas of the same topics constantly, confusion of memories, insomio, puerility in the whole behavior, among other) memory disturbances; (forfeiture of the uptake memory, that is to say, of proximate facts, and conservation of the evocation memory, that is to say, of old facts; the school infantile automatisms are also remembered) dysfunctions of the language (forfeiture in the elaborated ways of expression or onomastics); constant disorientation in time and later in place; weakening of the judgment and reason; fatiguability and carefulness lábil; dysfunctions of the character (jealousies, avarice, selfishness, intransigence, impertinence, distrust, mistrust, among other); and release of the inferior layers of the legal capacity (for failure of the control mechanisms).

The evolution of the process is progressive, with periods of attenuation and of exacerbation of the symptoms, toward a final state of psychic chaos, being the senile one reduced to a purely vegetative life.

The treatment indicated in these cases is fundamentally medicamentoso (hormone therapy anabolizante and drugs psicotropos, so much antidepression medications, as tranquilizers). They should also be kept in mind the conditions of life of the old demenciado in the socio-economic and environmental sense.

Schizophrenia

The psychoses esquizofrénicas are the mental most serious and frequent illnesses, since more than half of the chronic confined sick persons they suffer them. They can be defined as the group of psychic dysfunctions in those that the oncoherencia ideoverbal, the ambivalence, prevails the autism, the delirious ideas, the hallucinations and affective deep disturbances, as absence and strangeness of the feelings. This conunto of dysfunctions spreads to evolve toward a dissociation and segregation of the legal capacity.

The fundamental features of the symptoms esquizofrénicos are the following ones: excision of the legal capacity (I overturn fundamental, consistent in a rupture of the harmony of the me and of the psychic normal mechanisms); absurdidas, strangeness and psychological incomprensibilidad of the sick person's (your mind is governed by the new and unknown laws) vivencias; incongruity of the behavior; strangeness of itself, autism and rupture of the contact with the relaidad; catastrophic (with the one that the sick person foresees the destruction of your legal capacity) vivencia.

These illnesses can cause gradually, by means of a long and insidious process, or in an acute and sharp (call emerges) way. Your lawsuits, very diverse, are very debated in the different schools psiquátricas. Diverse factors can exist: genetic, biotipológicos, psicotípicos of predisposition, neurobiologic (energy dysfunctions and dismetabólicos, endocrine dysfunctions) and finally psychosocial (among those that have special importance the biographical events of the childhood, the socio-cultural mean and the relationships interfamiliares). In general, two theories etiopatogénicas prevail: the organicista (for which the schizophrenias are linked illnesses of somatic origin to a consitución and transferable for inheritance) and the psicogenética (for which the esquizpfrenias is reacciónm modes from certain types of legal capacity to specific conflicts). In fact, according to the theory psicogenética, the schizophrenias would be the final result of the uptake in anomalous ways of reaction originated in very early ages before conflicts that cannot remember. New conflicts unchain these latent reaction modes.

They exist, diverse types of psychosis esquizofrénica. The clinical most frequent and typical form is the paranoid schizophrenia that are characterized by the appearance of delirious primary ideas. Delirious secondary ideas and alucinaicones are also added; these three symptoms constitute the core of this schizophrenia. The beginning can be gradual or sharp. Frequently, the delirious ideas of persecution and of poisoning they go accompanied by auditory, visual, smell hallucinations, etc., that they confirm to the sick person in your delirious ideas. He/she usually appears in plenum adultes and even in advance ages.

The other forms clinicians differ for your evolutionary potential. You are two forms that have a very important, more included potential evilutivo that that in the typical or paranoid way, and that they constitute the serious schizophrenias.

In the first place, the schizophrenia hebefrénica are, of insidious and progressive beginning, mainly in the adolescents (school difficulties, you shrink of the performance, hypochondriac crisis and sensation of fatigue). During the beginnings it can seem a neurosis, but after some months or one year the sick person lives as dreaming and you pass to the fundamental symptoms of the illness: progressive apathy with indeferencia regarding everything, infantile behavior and massive and quick trend toward a state serious demencial.

The second serious schizophrenia is the catatonic one. In this illness the psychomotor symptoms prevail, together with a great negativism (I lock of the voluntary activity, being only conserved the self-operating activity). Of all the esquizofrénicos it is the catatonic one the one that give a more intense sensation of insulation of the reality and of rupture with the normal forms of relationship. The psychomotor syndrome can enter two forms: the hipocinética (in the one that the reduction in value of the movement, the forfeiture of all initiative, prevails until the grade of conserving the postures imposed hours and even days, and the mutismo) and the hipercinética, be local or general (in the one that episodes of semiautomatic intense agitation appear, without the sick person of a reduced space that you/they lose temper with periods of immobility being exitted). In general the sick person, although non lomparezca, is pending of your acts. The evolution toward the dementia is carried out in 3 or 4 years.