In many people's minds, there often exists a wrong concept, which is to confuse neuropathy and mental illness. Whenever you hear people say "neuropathy", you will immediately think of "crazy", "stupid". Therefore, many literary publications, television and movies often contain the erroneous terminology of calling mental illnesses as "neuroses". In fact, mental illness and neurosis are two completely different diseases and should not be confused.

Psychosis, also known as mental disorder, is the result of abnormal brain function. Existing instrumentation has not been able to detect destructive changes in the structure of the brain. According to the available information, psychosis is due to a disturbance of the biochemical processes in the patient's brain, some patients have more central nervous system mediators, while others lack certain central nervous system mediators, or certain body metabolites accumulate in the brain too much. Because the brain function of psychiatric patients is not normal, so these patients appeared to mental activity of obvious abnormalities, such as inexplicable self-talk, crying and laughing, sometimes face the wall or to the air rage, sometimes unkempt, or even naked in front of a large audience ......

Neuropathy is the short form of neurological disorders. As mentioned earlier, the nervous system is an important system within the human body, it coordinates the function of the internal organs of the human body to adapt to the changes in the external environment, playing the role of the "headquarters". Any situation that can damage or destroy the nervous system can cause neurological disorders. For example, head trauma can cause concussion or cerebral contusion; bacterial, fungal and viral infections can cause various types of encephalitis or meningitis; congenital or hereditary diseases can cause children's brain development retardation; hypertension and cerebral arteriosclerosis can cause cerebral hemorrhage and so on.

So what are the symptoms of common neurological disorders? Headache, dizziness, abnormal sleep, tremor, walking instability, paralysis of the lower gums, hemiplegia, numbness of the limbs, apoplexy, coma, urination and defecation can not control themselves, muscle atrophy, and weakness are the most common manifestations. To summarize, the symptoms can be divided into two categories: one is the irritation symptom, which manifests as pain and numbness; the other is the destruction symptom, which manifests as paralysis. Of course, some neurological patients can also show a certain degree of insanity, but this insanity is different from that of psychiatric patients, and the doctor can distinguish the two according to the symptoms, examination, and various laboratory tests.

This shows that neuropathy and psychosis are two different kinds of diseases, with different causes and clinical manifestations, so you should be clear about these two concepts in your daily life. If you meet a psychiatric patient to see a doctor, you should advise him to go to a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric department; while a neurological patient, you should go to a neurological department to see a doctor.

It should be noted that neurasthenia and neurosis and psychosis are also completely different, and should not be confused.