Dementia is a mental illness? These 3 differences are 'emphasized', the truth is here
Alzheimer's disease is one of the high-risk diseases in the elderly. Clinical studies have found that the probability of disease in people with low education level is much higher than that of people with high education level, generally reaching ten times. People who do physical work are two to three times more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than those who do mental work. Therefore, paying attention to using the brain diligently in life will help to reduce the probability of Alzheimer's disease.
There is a partial overlap in the symptoms of Alzheimer's and mental patients. For example, senile dementia patients may be accompanied by senile Alzheimer's mental disorders when they develop to the middle and late stages. The appearance of mental disorders has a certain intersection with the senile mental disorders that people usually talk about, but the two are not completely equal.
At present, in the field of psychiatry, the mental disorders of Alzheimer's disease are also included in the management of psychiatry to a certain extent, but there are still differences with the management of mental illness.
Alzheimer's treatment is based on improving the symptoms of cognitive impairment in patients, and then antipsychotic drugs are used for patients with severe symptoms. The really simple senile mental disorder, without cognitive dysfunction, is mainly based on antipsychotic drugs, rather than improving cognitive dysfunction.
Senile dementia is the so-called Alzheimer's disease clinically, and there is a clear distinction between it and mental diseases.
- Cognitive and life skills. Psychiatric patients will not be accompanied by symptoms of cognitive dysfunction, so there will be no damage to memory function, and the ability to redirect the most relevant time, place, and person is very good, and there will be no obvious decline in daily living ability. Symptoms occur.
Alzheimer's disease is generally based on the impairment of cognitive function and the decline of daily living ability, which is accompanied by obvious abnormal mental behavior.
Psychiatric patients are more likely to have hallucinations, delusions and other symptoms, which are significantly different from the pathological basis of Alzheimer's disease.
Patients with senile dementia and mental disorders will use antipsychotic drugs when their symptoms are severe, but the dosage of drugs is completely different.
In severe cases of senile dementia, even if antipsychotic drugs are used, the dosage is still relatively small. If the patient is only a simple mental disorder, when there is hallucinations and delusions related symptoms, the dose of antipsychotic drugs is very large, at least far higher than the amount of drugs used by Alzheimer's patients.
