Investigating youth insanity and its treatment methods
Keywords:
madness, simple youthful madness, catatonic, hyperphonic and paranoidAbstract
Mental illnesses are divided into two groups in terms of severity and mildness, which are psychoses and neuroses. Psychosis is a more severe mental disorder of which “youth madness” is a type. “Youth insanity” is a type of disease that manifests itself with numerous symptoms, such as disorder in thinking, perception, motivation, behavior and performance of a person. Juvenile insanity has three stages: pre-symptomatic stage, active stage and residual stage. Its most important types are: simple juvenile insanity, catatonic juvenile insanity, hyperphynic juvenile insanity, and paranoid juvenile insanity. In general, several biological, psychological, social and cultural factors are involved in it. Doctors use three separate methods to treat them: herbal therapy, psychotherapy and socio-cultural therapy.
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