Climbing Everest may
London: Researchers say climbing highest mountains in the world such as Mount Everest can actually lead to psychosis - a mental disorder characterised by a disconnection from reality - adding these psychotic episodes constitute a person's own medical condition and may be distinct from altitude sickness. Read: Psychosis - What is it? How it raises suicide risk by 5-fold in kids
They discovered a new medical entity which they named the isolated high-altitude psychosis.
“Mountains are maddeningly beautiful, but we did not expect that they can drive us to madness," said study co-author Dr Hermann Brugger, head of the Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy.
For the study, the researchers analysed data from 80 psychotic episodes at high altitudes collected from German mountain literature. They found a list of psychotic symptoms, such as hearing voices, that were linked to altitude but very clearly not always connected to any physical symptoms of altitude sickness or past mental illness.
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