A state of confident wellbeing. Euphoria is a normal reaction to personal success, but it can also be induced by drugs, including prolonged use of corticosteroid drugs. Euphoria with no rational cause may be a sign of mania, or brain damage due to head injury, dementia, brain tumours, or multiple sclerosis.
A feeling of well-being. This may occur normally; for instance, when someone has passed an examination. In some neurological or psychiatric conditions, however, patients may have an exaggerated and quite unjusti?ed feeling of euphoria. This is then a symptom of the underlying condition. Euphoria may also be drug-induced – by drugs of addiction or by therapeutic drugs such as CORTICOSTEROIDS.
n. a state of optimism, cheerfulness, and wellbeing. A morbid degree of euphoria is characteristic of *mania and *hypomania. See also ecstasy; elation.
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