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Psychosis Treatment

When a patient develops psychosis as a side effect of another condition like depression, the proper care may reduce the symptoms that coincide with psychosis or get rid of them altogether. If an intensive care patient is unable to sleep at night due to the stress involved with a traumatic situation, they may find that moving to a room with a calmer atmosphere could cure their psychosis. Recovery can be quite a drawn out process, so additional treatment may be required in the meantime.

Treatment of psychosis is a collaborative effort between healthcare workers, family, and close friends to be supportive and offer reassurance to the patient as opposed to confronting them about their abnormalities. Psychotic people who live in assisted living situations (e.g., nursing home) show an improvement in managing their symptoms if the employees consistently remind them that they are in a safe haven, and the people around them are there for the benefit of the residents.

A classification of drugs known as antipsychotics will help ease or eradicate symptoms. Once there is a noticeable drop-off in symptoms, medication may need to be continued for preventative purposes. Regrettably, antipsychotics trigger numerous unwanted side effects like sedation, muscle tightness, shakiness, weight gain, and agitation. These drugs are also notorious for causing tardive dyskinesia, a disorder that causes involuntary movements such as puckering the lips and tongue or contorting the arms and legs. Tardive dyskinesia may persist even after dosages of the medication believed to be the root of the problem are stopped. If the disorder still has not subsided, the patient must simply endure it because there are no alternative solutions currently available.

Risperidone, olanzapine, and quetiapine are among a new group of antipsychotics to hit the market with lesser chances of side effects. Risperidone must be prescribed with caution because people with dementia may be more prone to suffering a stroke when taking it.