This passage explains what category a mental disorder may be placed in. Neuroses and Psychoses are discussed here with a guide on how to better understand each condition.

Mental disorders can be broadly placed in two categories: neuroses and psychoses. The first category is of a mild form in which there is a general emotional tone of anxiety or apprehension: patients are afraid to open letters lest the contents convey bad news, and, by the same reason, they are afraid of telegrams. Persons suffering from a mild indisposition may also interpret the same as a symptom of some fatal disease. Exophthalimic goiter, which is sometimes accompanied by mental symptoms, may be included in this group. Neurasthenia, hysteria and various obsessions including such symptoms as irrepressible thoughts and impulses fall into the group of psychoneuroses.

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The other category of mental disorders, namely, psychoses, includes mania, melancholia, manic-depressive psychosis, paranoia, schizophrenia or dementia praecox, and certain confusional states in which there is more of disorientation than any serious disorder. There may be senile dementia and general paralysis of the insane which, in most cases, is the result of syphilis of the nervous system.

Ayurveda recognizes a large variety of insanity cases. The causative factors are, of course, vitiation of the three doshas, sudden shocks-mental or physical, weakness of the nervous system, ingestion of certain poisons or the formation of certain poisonous substances in the body because of certain diseases.

Medicine and prescriptions: The old masters have recommended a psychological course of treatment in the earlier stages: for example, the patient who is in a depressed state of mind should be entertained and his mind sought to be diverted from his imaginary problems. If the insanity is of vatic origin, that is, if is because of the vitiation of vata dosha, certain preparations of ghee-siddha Ghritas- should be administered. If the insanity is of pitta origin, purgatives may be administered and in case of kapha being at the root of the malady, vomiting should be induced.

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