Diogenes's syndrome or pathological moneymaking is a mental disorder, one of types of persuasive states. It is shown that the person collects and accumulates a huge number of things and objects, mainly house use. The personality who suffers from this pathological moneymaking suffers torments even if she should throw out a plastic bag or to bank. It is interesting that the Ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes Sinodsky was known for the asceticism and unpretentiousness in life. Therefore the above-stated name of this pathology is considered not absolutely correct. The names "Plyushkin's Syndrome" or "syndrome of senile poverty" are more often used.
Symptoms and reasons of development of a disease
The main symptoms of pathological moneymaking are accommodation among a lot of the stuff brought from the street, interest in garbage, neglect personal hygiene and hostile, sometimes the aggressive attitude towards people around which pay attention to strange hobby of the patient. Such people do not consider the hobby for a garbage collection – they are sure that each of things bears in itself a certain value and by all means sometime it is useful. Nevertheless, they need money in the last turn, carefully collecting the savings in secluded corners or in bank.
Scientists, long time the studying causes of this illness, found out that the thirst for collecting something is initially put in a brain of the person. Who - that from us collected brands, badges, others – cards, coins and even candy wrappers from chewing gums. Over time such passion for collecting at some passes, and at others passes into persuasive desire. And then it is very easy to cross that barrier when the harmless hobby develops into the real disease. According to researches at the people suffering from an uncontrollable habit to collect everything on the way certain differences in the structure of a cerebral cortex are observed. It especially concerns poor development of bark of frontal lobes of a brain – exactly there is a center which is responsible for rationality of acts.
When the activity of this site of a brain decreases, the person begins to make absolutely not logical acts. Diogenes's syndrome, especially at early stages to diagnose quite difficult, it can be confused with difficult character or eccentricity. The head injury suffered earlier, a severe stress, bereavement, loneliness, surgical interventions in areas of the head and also the postponed encephalitis can also be one of the reasons of development of this disease. By scientists it is proved that most often quite successful, educated people who led enough active lifestyle earlier and had success in society got sick with Diogenes's syndrome.
How to treat Diogenes's syndrome?
As Diogenes's syndrome is studied by medicine and represents a consequence of many diseases, he certainly needs to be diagnosed and treated. It meets generally in old age though there are cases in among youth. Treatment of a syndrome of Diogenes at an initial stage allows to do without medicines. First of all is an attention of relatives. It is necessary to be interested more in collected collections, to motivate the patient to display things on intended for this place, to offer the help in cleaning to get rid of absolutely old exhibits.
If the person needs administration of drugs, then after consultation with the psychiatrist to it a number of drugs the improving memories, intellectual activity and attention will be appointed. Patients become more actively and more emotionally, are more self-critical. Sometimes it happens that the disease went too far and the monastery of the person becomes dangerous both for him and for people around. If he refuses to be treated at home, then treatment in a psychiatric hospital legally even without its consent is necessary.
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