Background: Psychotic disorder due to industrial drug, such as methamphetamine addiction, is one of the important causes for referral to psychiatric hospital. Psychotic symptoms in these patients are varied. A group of researchers believe that methamphetamine-induced psychosis is completely similar to schizophrenia. Others believe that at least some cases of permanent psychotic clinical manifestation due to methamphetamine abuse are different from schizophrenia. In the present study, the existence of differences between psychotic symptoms caused by methamphetamine addiction and schizophrenia is investigated.
Background:Iraq-Iran war lasted 8 years and ended approximately 20 years ago. It left many mentally injured veterans suffering from chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this research we tried to evaluate the most frequent dream contents.Material & Method:Fifty patients with chronic PTSD and fifty matched healthy individuals were included in the study. Patient's demographic data, status of depression and anxiety and severity of PTSD were valuated. Frequent dreams in the past 6 months were recorded, using a checklist which was designed based on Hall/Van de Castle test.Results:The mean±SD of age was 38.08 years four most frequent dreams were threatening situations (rather then war events), natural disasters, death and falling down. There was no relation between the level of depression and anxiety and contents of dreams. Patients with more sever PTSD had more dreams including theme of death (P<0.0001).Conclusion:Frequent dreams in patients with chronic PTSD were not related to war experiences .We suggested dissociation as a defense mechanism is a more important factor shaping dreams than war experiences per se.
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