ANTI PSYCHOTICS

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Namaste Folks!!

Anti Psychotics

Part 1

The psychopharmacological agents or psychotropic drugs are those having primary effects on psyche (mental processes) and used for treatment of psychiatric disorders.

Psychoses

These  are severe psychiatric illness with serious distortion of thought, behaviour, capacity to recognize reality and of perception (delusions and hallucinations).

Neuroses

These are less serious; ability to comprehend reality is not lost, though the patient may undergo extreme suffering. Depending on the predominant feature..

(a) Anxiety

An unpleasant emotional state associated with uneasiness, worry, tension and concern for the future.
eg. Students can relate this type of feeling right before an important exam.

(b) Phobic states

Fear of unknown or of some specific objects, person or situations.

(c) Obsessive compulsive disorder

Limited abnormality of thought or behaviour; recurrent intrusive thoughts or ritual like behaviours which the patient realizes are abnormal or stupid, but is not able to overcome even on voluntary effort, the obsessions generate considerable anxiety and distress.

(d) Reactive depression 

due to physical illness, loss, blow to self- esteem or bereavement, but is excessive or disproportionate.

(e) Post traumatic stress disorder

Varied symptoms following distressing experiences like war, riots, earthquakes, etc.

Antipsychotic (neuroleptic, ataractic, major tranquilizer) useful in all types of fuctional psychosis, especially schizophrenia.

Classification




Rest of the parts of anti psychotics will be posted soon !!
Refference : Essentials of Medical Pharmacology (KD Tripathi)
Special thanks to Miss Divyani Paliwal. 

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