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Psychosis due to anxiety related to COVID-19: A case report

INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE: Limited information is available regarding various effects of lifestyle changes caused by coronavirus pandemic on human life. On the other hand, if the fear of getting infected by coronavirus is accompanied by other psychological crises, it can possibly lead to psychosis...

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Autores principales: Kargar-Soleimanabad, Saeed, Dehbozorgi, Raziye, Mahdi Mahdavinoor, Seyyed Muhammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9110056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35600198
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103795
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Dehbozorgi, Raziye
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description INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE: Limited information is available regarding various effects of lifestyle changes caused by coronavirus pandemic on human life. On the other hand, if the fear of getting infected by coronavirus is accompanied by other psychological crises, it can possibly lead to psychosis in people with or without a previous history of mental illness. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient is a 36-year-old man with no previous history of mental illness who divorced his wife 6 months before the onset of COVID-19 pandemic. The patient developed auditory hallucinations and paranoid thoughts after the outbreak. After diagnosis of psychosis, treatment with injectable haloperidol was started. He was then treated with risperidone for maintenance therapy. On the other hand, for depressive symptoms, the patient was treated with bupropion. One week after starting the treatment, the patient's paranoid thoughts and auditory hallucinations improved. CLINICAL DISCUSSION: Getting infected with coronavirus or being severely afraid of it may cause symptoms of psychosis in those with a history of previous mental disease. There is also evidence that extreme fear of infection with coronavirus can lead to psychosis if accompanied by other psychological crises. CONCLUSION: It is necessary to pay more attention to the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety caused by COVID-19. Failure to immediately treat the anxiety caused by the fear of infection in this pandemic or other epidemics can lead to more serious problems such as psychosis and create further risks for the individual, family and community.
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spelling pubmed-91100562022-05-17 Psychosis due to anxiety related to COVID-19: A case report Kargar-Soleimanabad, Saeed Dehbozorgi, Raziye Mahdi Mahdavinoor, Seyyed Muhammad Ann Med Surg (Lond) Case Report INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE: Limited information is available regarding various effects of lifestyle changes caused by coronavirus pandemic on human life. On the other hand, if the fear of getting infected by coronavirus is accompanied by other psychological crises, it can possibly lead to psychosis in people with or without a previous history of mental illness. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient is a 36-year-old man with no previous history of mental illness who divorced his wife 6 months before the onset of COVID-19 pandemic. The patient developed auditory hallucinations and paranoid thoughts after the outbreak. After diagnosis of psychosis, treatment with injectable haloperidol was started. He was then treated with risperidone for maintenance therapy. On the other hand, for depressive symptoms, the patient was treated with bupropion. One week after starting the treatment, the patient's paranoid thoughts and auditory hallucinations improved. CLINICAL DISCUSSION: Getting infected with coronavirus or being severely afraid of it may cause symptoms of psychosis in those with a history of previous mental disease. There is also evidence that extreme fear of infection with coronavirus can lead to psychosis if accompanied by other psychological crises. CONCLUSION: It is necessary to pay more attention to the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety caused by COVID-19. Failure to immediately treat the anxiety caused by the fear of infection in this pandemic or other epidemics can lead to more serious problems such as psychosis and create further risks for the individual, family and community. Elsevier 2022-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9110056/ /pubmed/35600198 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103795 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Kargar-Soleimanabad, Saeed
Dehbozorgi, Raziye
Mahdi Mahdavinoor, Seyyed Muhammad
Psychosis due to anxiety related to COVID-19: A case report
title Psychosis due to anxiety related to COVID-19: A case report
title_full Psychosis due to anxiety related to COVID-19: A case report
title_fullStr Psychosis due to anxiety related to COVID-19: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Psychosis due to anxiety related to COVID-19: A case report
title_short Psychosis due to anxiety related to COVID-19: A case report
title_sort psychosis due to anxiety related to covid-19: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9110056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35600198
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103795
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