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Ashanti Psychosis is a culture-bound syndrome in which an individual becomes frightened and frenzied, believing they are being punished for some offense.

Ashanti Psychosis This disorder has two types: (1) "Frenzied guilt-and-fear" (FGF) and (2) Depressive (DP), mostly affecting women in West Africa, e.g. Ghana. 1. FGF psychoses Begin with belief the person is being punished for some offence Person becomes frightened and then frenzied. This is followed by a period of withdrawal, hallucinations, hebephrenic behaviour, dancing, and singing, tearing off clothes and eating faeces. FGF psychoses were sometimes preceded by a physical illness with fever 2. DP patients Patients accused themselves of being witches and harming someone else without conscious intent. In younger women this often followed a difficult childbirth and subsequent illness or the death of an infant.

Posted by Dr. Andrew MacLean Pagon MD: http://drandrewmacleanpagon.blogspot.com/2009/11/culture-bound-psychotic-disorders.html

Ashanti Psychosis is a delicate situation. The two different types of Ashanti Psychosis are based upon the different symptoms. One, type is the "Frenzied guilt-and-fear". A person may become hyperactive in an extremely ridiculous way, considering that a person may have hallucinations, and that their body is going to react to these hallucinations. Then you have the Depressive type. During the depressive type of Ashanti Psychosis, you may have a patient accusing themselves of being witches, this could be caused from the hallucinations. Ashanti Psychosis may result in a the death of a child immediately after birth, complications with pregnancy and delivery, and illness in the child.