Therapeutic Approach and Treatment
The treatment of psychosis at the Tranquilamente clinic is designed in a comprehensive and personalized way, combining evidence-based medicine with warm, human care:
- Pharmacological treatment: Use of latest-generation antipsychotic medications (such as risperidone or quetiapine). These are essential to stabilize brain neurochemistry, reduce hallucinations and delusions in the acute phase, and prevent future relapses.
- Individualized psychotherapy: Through adapted Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), we help the patient process their experiences, reduce the distress associated with symptoms, and develop effective coping strategies.
- Psychosocial intervention and rehabilitation: Programs focused on cognitive rehabilitation, social skills training, and support to facilitate work, academic, and social reintegration.
- Psychoeducation and family support: We provide guidance tools to families to understand the condition, learn to manage complex situations, and be a solid pillar in the patient's recovery process.
Specialists in the treatment of Psychosis
Overview
Psychosis is a mental health condition characterized by an alteration in the perception and processing of reality. Those who experience it perceive distorted stimuli, thoughts, or ideas with absolute conviction, generating profound distress, confusion, and misunderstanding for both the patient and their loved ones.
Far from common prejudices and stigmas, at the Tranquilamente clinic we understand psychosis as a state of neurobiological vulnerability that requires empathetic, rigorous, and timely medical intervention. With the appropriate psychiatric and psychological treatment, it is possible to overcome the acute episode, prevent relapses, and recover a full, autonomous, and satisfying life.
Main Symptoms
The symptoms of psychosis alter the way a person feels, thinks, and interacts with the world. They manifest through the following main signs:
- Hallucinations: Sensory perceptions that occur without a real external stimulus. They can be auditory (hearing voices or noises others do not hear), visual, tactile, olfactory, or gustatory.
- Delusions: False, firm, and unshakeable beliefs that the person holds with total certainty, without yielding to logical explanations or objective evidence (for example, feelings of persecution or ideas of harm).
- Disorganized thinking and speech: Difficulty stringing ideas together coherently, resulting in confused speech, sudden changes of topic without connection, or thought blocks.
- Loss of contact with reality: Experience of a distorted reality that the person experiences as absolutely true and indisputable.
- Social withdrawal and behavioral change: Emotional withdrawal, neglect of self-care, and isolation from their environment due to distress, disorientation, or mistrust.
Common Types
There are various types of psychosis depending on their cause, duration, and the way symptoms present:
- Schizophrenia: Chronic neurobiological disorder characterized by persistent psychotic symptoms and an impact on daily functioning if not adequately treated.
- Bipolar Disorder with Psychotic Features: Occurs when, during severe episodes of mania or deep depression, hallucinations or delusions are present.
- Brief Reactive Psychosis: Sudden onset of psychotic symptoms triggered by a highly stressful or traumatic event. Its duration is short and recovery is usually complete.
- Substance-Induced Psychosis: Psychotic picture directly caused by intoxication or consumption of drugs, medications, or alcohol.
- Organic or Medical Psychosis: Symptoms caused secondarily by a physical illness, brain injury, or metabolic disorder.
- Delusional Disorder: Presence of specific and lasting delusions without the cognitive decline or general disorganization typical of schizophrenia.