STUPOR

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STOP - a state of complete immobility with mutism and a weakened reaction to irritations. Depressive stupor develops at the height of depression and can suddenly be replaced by furious arousal with suicidal actions (see Depression). Patients are subject to immediate hospitalization with the implementation of enhanced supervision, care, and sometimes artificial feeding. Treatment: a combination of antidepressants with neuroleptics, administered intramuscularly; Electroconvulsive therapy. Catatonic stupor is observed in various mental illnesses (schizophrenia, somatogeny, organic lesion of the central nervous system) and is characterized by inhibition with congealing in unnatural, pretentious poses, untidiness. Treatment is carried out only in a psychiatric hospital. Psychogenic (reactive) stupor arises as a result of severe mental trauma, as a reaction to the latter. Requires observation of a psychiatrist and treatment with intramuscular administration of tranquilizers.