Case Report
Delirious Mania: Can We Get Away with This Concept? A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Table 2
Catatonia subgroups: symptoms of delirious mania and catatonia [
3,
10].
| Delirious mania | Catatonia* |
| Present |
| Sudden onset/intense excitement | Stereotypy | Tachycardia | Tachypnoea | Hypertension | Pressured speech/mutism |
| Present | Present |
| Disorganized thoughts Disorganized speech Refusing food and fluids | Grandiosity | Emotional lability | Delusions | Insomnia | Disorientation | Altered consciousness | Negativism | Flight of ideas |
| Absent |
| Hyperthermia | Posturing |
| Absent | |
| Catalepsy | | Rigidity | | Cycle from excited state to stuporous state | |
|
|
*Requires 2 or more signs for ≥24 hours [3].
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