The first answer to the question "what is it is distress" was answered by the American psychophysiologist, Doctor of Medicine Waltner Cannon. In literal translation from English, the word "stre...

The name manic depressive psychosis is due to the combination of forms of mental disorders of the individual: the manic phase is replaced by the depressive and vice versa. As with any mental di...

Depression is not just a bad mood, accompanied by tearfulness and self-flagellation. Running depressive states can lead to suicidal attempts, so depression is absolutely not a disease that you ...

Character disorder( personality) is a separate type of disorder considered in clinical psychiatry as a behavioral deviation from the generally accepted norms. The first manifestations of such d...

Symptomatic mental disorders occur against somatic( bodily) diseases. All such disorders or psychoses, accompanied by hallucinations or delusions, are characterized by a number of common signs....

The diagnosis of "syndrome of mental dependence" is set if for a sufficiently long period a person has an irresistible need to perform pathological actions. These dependencies, leading to illne...

In contrast to dementia, mental retardation manifests itself as a general mental underdevelopment caused by an innate and not acquired defect, although both of these disorders are characterized...

Dysthymia - a pathological condition that is a mental disorder, accompanied by a sad mood, a pessimistic view of personal life and the development of skepticism to everything positive. Th...

Hysterical manifestations can be said if a person is subject to constant suggestibility, his mood is unstable, judgments are superficial. Individuals of a hysterical type often have a theatrica...

Mental health of a person is so subtle and rather "blurry" a notion that no psychiatrist has the right to make a clear, unambiguous diagnosis. Moreover, no one at the legislative level has the ...

For the first time the term "mental illness of schizophrenia" in 1908 was used by psychiatrist Eigen Bleuler( Switzerland).Before this, schizophrenia was considered as one of the varieties of d...

The fact that a person suffers from one of the types of obsessive states( or several at once) can be judged by the following signs: the patient is haunted by obsessive thoughts and memories, un...