Pharmacological Treatments

noun a chronic, typically progressive disease involving damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, whose symptoms may include numbness, impairment of speech and muscular coordination, blurred vision, and severe fatigue

• Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease affecting the central nervous system.
• My aunt was recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
• Dealing with MS can be really tough.
• Living with multiple sclerosis feels like constantly walking on a tightrope.

noun a condition characterized by severe pain along the course of a nerve or group of nerves

• Neuralgia is a medical condition characterized by intense, shooting pain along a nerve.
• I've been dealing with neuralgia in my back for weeks now.
• That neuralgia pain is no joke, it feels like my nerve is on fire.
• Her emotional pain was like a neuralgia, shooting through her heart with every memory.

noun a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality

• Psychosis is a severe mental disorder characterized by a loss of contact with reality.
• My cousin struggles with psychosis and has trouble distinguishing between what's real and what's not.
• Dude, that movie was so crazy it gave me a bit of psychosis!
• The political climate has caused a collective psychosis among the population, leading to widespread paranoia and fear.

noun a type of drug used to treat psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia

• The patient was prescribed a neuroleptic to help manage their schizophrenia symptoms.
• The doctor gave me some neuroleptic pills for my anxiety.
• I heard that neuroleptics can really knock you out.
• Taking a neuroleptic felt like putting a blanket over my racing thoughts.

noun a neurological condition characterized by seeing static or snow-like visual disturbances

adjective describing the type of visual disturbance experienced

• Visual snow is a rare neurological condition characterized by the perception of flickering static or snow-like visual disturbances.
• I've been experiencing visual snow lately, it's like seeing tiny dots everywhere.
• Visual snow is when your vision looks all glitchy, like a broken TV screen.
• His mind was clouded with visual snow, making it hard for him to focus on anything else.

noun a medical term referring to inflammation of the iris and ciliary body of the eye

• The patient was diagnosed with iridocyclitis, an inflammation of the iris and ciliary body.
• My friend has been dealing with iridocyclitis, but she's getting treatment for it.
• I heard that iridocyclitis can be a real pain in the eye.
• Dealing with that difficult situation felt like a case of iridocyclitis for him.