Other names: mania
Euphoria is aloof or blissful mood. Usually transient after taking certain drugs or alcohol (but only to a certain extent, it has more alcohol depressant), but sometimes it is a sign of true psychiatric or neurological diseases.
Among the “euphoric” drugs include cocaine, modafinil, amphetamine and similar substance –methamphetamine, ecstasy, ephedrine, phenmetrazine and more. These drugs act in the brain so that faster psychomotor speed, keep a man awake, eliminate fatigue, induce euphoria and mental state of excitement. They can also stimulate aggressive behavior and reduce the need for sleep.
Use of such drugs is dangerous to both the short-term (threatening dehydration with a total collapse of the organism or e.g. myocardial infarction or stroke) and long term (loss of neurons in the brain).
Euphoria is not far from the mania, which is a kind of expansive mood associated with increased activity, self-esteem, etc. They tend to be especially patients with episodic mania and at certain stages, patients with bipolar disorder. The treatment is difficult, some drugs are used, indicated by a psychiatrist.
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