{"id":665,"date":"2021-03-19T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/?p=665"},"modified":"2021-04-05T12:25:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:25:47","slug":"depression-in-traumatic-brain-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/depression-in-traumatic-brain-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Depression in traumatic brain injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Against the&nbsp;background of craniocerebral trauma (TBI), various kinds&nbsp;of mental health disorders&nbsp;are frequent&nbsp;.&nbsp;As a rule, there are&nbsp;three stages of traumatic brain injury&nbsp;in the&nbsp;clinical picture: acute, intermediate and&nbsp;distant.&nbsp;In&nbsp;accordance with the&nbsp;severity of TBI, mental disorders can occur both at the&nbsp;stage of acute trauma and&nbsp;in the&nbsp;long-term period.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More often,&nbsp;<strong>mental disorders in TBI&nbsp;<\/strong>refer to&nbsp;long-term consequences, which can have both a short duration and may&nbsp;last for&nbsp;several years.&nbsp;They can represent various forms of asthenia,&nbsp;psychopathic&nbsp;disorders,&nbsp;psychosis, dementia,&nbsp;etc.&nbsp;Depending on the&nbsp;type of disorder in a&nbsp;person who has suffered a traumatic brain injury, the following symptoms may appear:<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>fatigue&nbsp;, decreased performance, memory impairment, irritability;<\/li><li>hysterical reactions, seizures, excitability, aggressiveness;<\/li><li>a state of dim consciousness, seizures, amnesia;<\/li><li>hallucinations, disinhibition, euphoria, suspiciousness, mania, irritability.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Depression in craniocerebral trauma is&nbsp;<\/strong>characteristic as a manifestation of affective psychosis, alternating with&nbsp;manic attacks, but it&nbsp;is observed much less often manias, is a symptomatic or secondary disorder.&nbsp;In&nbsp;contrast,&nbsp;from&nbsp;psychogenic depression that occur as a reaction to&nbsp;traumatic events, this type of depression depends on the&nbsp;severity of the injury itself, so in&nbsp;many respects depends on the therapy&nbsp;treatment TBI.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Typically, depressive disorder manifests itself in&nbsp;three ways:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>dysphoria (a condition in which the patient is often in a&nbsp;melancholy mood, apathy, shows aggression and&nbsp;irritability);&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>tearfulness;<\/li><li>hypochondria (excessive concern and&nbsp;anxiety about one&#8217;s health).&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;<strong>epressiya when TBI&nbsp;<\/strong>flowing from&nbsp;trevozhno-&nbsp;phobic&nbsp;disorders may be combined with&nbsp;the state of dizziness (stunning), amnesia.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the presence of a mental health disorder in TBI, a&nbsp;<strong>psychiatrist&nbsp;<\/strong>can intervene in the&nbsp;course of treatment, both in the&nbsp;acute period of the trauma, and in the&nbsp;distant one.&nbsp;The patient undergoes complex therapy,&nbsp;taking into account his health and&nbsp;possible complications,&nbsp;during which bed rest, balanced nutrition, metabolic drugs and&nbsp;medications are needed to improve blood circulation.&nbsp;In acute depressive disorders, the&nbsp;<strong>psychiatrist&nbsp;<\/strong>prescribes a course of antidepressants.&nbsp;In the treatment of&nbsp;<strong>depression in traumatic brain injury,&nbsp;<\/strong>antidepressants are guided by the division of depressive disorder into&nbsp;two categories:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>depression with&nbsp;lethargy,&nbsp;apathy;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>anxious depression, which is characterized by suicidal thoughts and&nbsp;intentions, severe anxiety and&nbsp;irritability.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;accordance with&nbsp;the severity of brain injury, rehabilitation can take&nbsp;months or last for&nbsp;years, so the correct rehabilitation measures are very important in&nbsp;order to avoid a large number of negative consequences.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against the&nbsp;background of craniocerebral trauma (TBI), various kinds&nbsp;of mental health disorders&nbsp;are frequent&nbsp;.&nbsp;As a rule, there are&nbsp;three stages of traumatic brain injury&nbsp;in the&nbsp;clinical picture: acute, intermediate and&nbsp;distant.&nbsp;In&nbsp;accordance with the&nbsp;severity of TBI, mental disorders can occur both at the&nbsp;stage of acute trauma and&nbsp;in the&nbsp;long-term period.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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