Progressivity in Psychiatry

Progression syndrome is a psychiatry term that is used to describe the development of a mental illness with an increasing number of symptoms and personality degradation.

The term was coined in the early 20th century to refer to the growth and progression of diseases such as schizophrenia. In modern medicine, progressive development syndrome is also used to refer to the progressive loss of neurological functions, such as loss of vision, hearing, speech, and others.

Mental illnesses: progressive progression of mental illness with an increase in negative and positive symptoms characteristic of: schizophrenia, progressive paralysis (syphilis), senile dementia

A progressive disease (from the Latin progressio - advancement, movement forward) is a disease that manifests itself in the appearance and increase during its development of increasingly severe and pronounced signs of the main (primary) pathology, as well as in the involvement of more and more new structures or structures in the pathological process organs. A typical example is alcoholic psychosis (progressive paralysis or syphilis). In the final stages of alcoholism, it affects the brain and leads to death. Similarly, the final stage of any diabetes mellitus, when severe irreversible neurological complications develop.

From a medical point of view, a progressive disease differs from a non-progressive disease by its active principle, since it progresses

**Progredience** refers to the gradual increase in mental manifestations of the disease, as well as the changes that occur during the course of the disease. First, temporary mental disorders occur, then they gradually intensify, and in the end, a pronounced psychotic disorder or somatic symptoms develop. This type of progression is called **progredient**. In the case of an irreversible transition to a deeper stage, this already represents a regression of the disease; it ceases to respond to treatment. However, therapy never stops working completely.