Hyper sexuality and psychosis among Mania with psychotic symptoms

Dr. Bhabani Shankar Shit; Dr. Ajay Kumar Bakhla; Dr Amrit Pattojoshi

Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

Hyper sexuality and psychosis among Mania with psychotic symptoms

Dr. Bhabani Shankar Shit, Dr. Ajay Kumar Bakhla, Dr Amrit Pattojoshi

Abstract :

Aims and Objective� The current study compared psychotic symptoms as measured by BPRS among patients of mania across groups with hyper sexuality and without hyper sexuality. Method�One hundred male only patients being diagnosed as either manic episode or bipolar affective disorder current episode mania with psychotic symptoms were grouped as per symptoms of hyper sexuality were present or not and assessed with BPRS. Results� A total of 100 male manic consisted of 55 patients with normal libido and another 45 patients with hyper sexuality with mean age of 29.67 � 8.39 years and 27.73 � 8.98 years respectively ( t value = –1.113, df= 98 and p value= 0.268). The mean BPRS score for normal libido group was 31.53 � 4.12 and for the group of increased libido it was 29.54 � 5.16 ( t value = 2.09, df= 98 and p value= 0.039). There was significant higher subscale score among increased libido group for excitement ( t value = 3.99, df= 98 and p value= .000) and for grandiosity ( t value = 2.434, df= 93.38 and p value= .017) all other subscale means were similar for both groups. Conclusions� This study reveals that higher �excitement� and �grandiosity� are the differentiating psychotic symptoms for increased libido or hypersexuality in male manic patients.