IMPULSE CONDITIONS

IMPULSIVE STATES include impulsive actions and impulsive drives.

Impulsive actions are motor acts that arise and occur suddenly, without external motives and comprehension, as if automatically. The patient suddenly runs up to the person passing by and strikes him; Jumps up and runs; Begins to sing and quickly ceases; Tearing clothes, etc. More often impulsive actions are observed in patients in a state of severe psychosis, for example, in schizophrenia, as well as in patients with epilepsy in a state of darkened consciousness.

Impulsive drives are a much more complex disorder. They usually arise against a background of low mood. Initially, the patient struggles with the desire to do this or that act, but in the future, the attraction becomes irresistible, subordinates all the thoughts and desires of the patient, and he fulfills it. The patient often does not remember the period of the act, which indicates that he was committed with a changed consciousness. The most frequent forms of impulsive drives are vagrancy (dromomania), a passion for theft (kleptomania) and arson (pyromania), the desire to kill or inflict physical damage, etc. Most often, impulsive impulses occur with sluggish schizophrenia, some organic diseases with psychopathic disorders and epilepsy.

A patient with an impulsive condition should be immediately sent to a specialized hospital, accompanied by a medical worker. Treatment is carried out by psychotropic drugs, primarily neuroleptics. Impulsive cravings can repeatedly occur.