Menstrual Psychosis
This is a comparatively uncommon form of severe mental illness, with the following characteristics:
- Abrupt onset against a background of normality.
- Brief duration, with full recovery.
- Psychotic features such as confusion, mutism and stupor, delusions, hallucinations or a manic syndrome. Premenstrual tension, premenstrual syndrome, premenstrual (late luteal phase) depression or dysphoric disorder or menstrual mood disorder do not qualify.
- A circa-mensual (approximately monthly) periodicity, in rhythm with the menstrual cycle.
Read more about Menstrual Psychosis: History, Examples, Clinical Features, Epidemiology, Course, Cause, Treatment
Famous quotes containing the words menstrual and/or psychosis:
“If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your menstrual blood—if it makes you sick, you’ve a long way to go, baby.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“My safe, safe psychosis is broken.
It was hard.
It was made of stone.
It covered my face like a mask.
But it has cracked.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)