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 | |
|
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*Requires 2 or more signs for ≥24 hours [3].
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