Delirium Lucidum

Delirium lucidum (LD) is a dangerous condition in patients that is a complication of schizophrenia and is characterized by memory loss (confabulation), hallucinatory experiences and symptoms of anxiety and agitation. Patients experience a feeling of loss of control, erratic actions, and pronounced emotions of fear and anxiety.

In this condition, patients can commit dangerous actions, such as aggressive and violent acts, and also cause harm to themselves or others. They may be in a state of aggression and insanity, which makes them dangerous to themselves and others.

Treatment of delirium lucidum should be urgent and professional. You must immediately seek help from a psychiatrist or neurologist who will prescribe appropriate treatment.

The first stage of treatment for LD is stabilization of the patient's emotional state. In this case, various medications are used that help reduce symptoms of anxiety, reduce hallucinations and other manifestations of the disease.

Delirium lucidum is a painful mental state in which a clear awareness of reality continues with the elimination of delirium and hallucinatory experiences characteristic of delirium, but a critical attitude towards surrounding people and situations is impaired. There is practically no motor arousal, and drives and intellectual activity are not impaired, although external assessment is available to them. Patients are inhibited, indecisive and are burdened by contact with others, but do not push them away, do not isolate themselves from reality, they themselves tend to go to an isolated place and ideas of self-destruction and self-blame arise.

The first sign of this condition: increased sleepiness during the day and insomnia at night. Prolonged sleep paralysis may be bothersome. This sign indicates sleep disturbances and is characterized by obvious disorientation of patients after prolonged sleep. They incorrectly determine their location, are mistaken in the date, time of day and current calendar date. Often they confuse a significant surrounding object and a person, or vice versa, they have a loss of “feeling of the body” and experience the feeling that the soul has left the body and is wandering. At times they see their body from the outside - a paranoid teleopsychic phenomenon. Impaired memory for a past illness: this is a frequent accompaniment of this type of disorientation. The inability to describe one's past condition is sometimes called congenital memory disorder. Imaginary eropathic bodily sensations are observed when it is heard as if something is dripping from the body or someone is touching it. Delirio