Category Psychiatry

Bipolar affective personality disorder: symptoms and signs
Psychiatry

Bipolar affective personality disorder: symptoms and signs

Bipolar affective disorder is a disease of the psyche that either suppresses or elevates a person. It would seem that mood changes are inherent in everyone, but here everything is much more serious. A rather dangerous disease, if during not paying attention to the symptoms of bipolar disorder. Brief history The first mention of the bar date back to 1854.

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Psychiatry

How to identify and treat schizophrenia?

Шизофрения относится к числу самых трудноизлечимых заболеваний . В большинстве случаев удается добиться длительной ремиссии психического расстройства, но полностью устранить риск проявления его симптоматики не получается. Важную роль при терапии данной патологии играет своевременность лечения и индивидуальные особенности психики пациента.
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Psychiatry

Mysterious and frightening walking in a dream: why does a person moan and what to do?

The phenomenon of sleepwalking is known to science for a long time. This sleep disorder is diagnosed not only in adults but also in children. Determining the causes of the problem in a particular patient often helps to eliminate the signs of illness. The concept of sleepwalking Who are lunatics? Sleepwalking (somnambulism) is a painful disorder in which people who are in a state of sleep perform various actions.
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Psychiatry

Symptoms, signs and treatment of narcissistic personality disorder

Many have come across such a term as "Narcissus". This concept has been used for a long time. The term itself defines a person who is completely fixated on himself, while losing touch with the surrounding reality. Currently, narcissism is very common, about 5-7% of the population in varying degrees, show signs of narcissistic disorder.
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Psychiatry

Types and signs of impaired human consciousness

Consciousness is an integral part of the concept of "personality." It makes it possible to fully analyze information coming from the outside world, compare it with existing knowledge and experience, draw conclusions, use cognitive abilities, understand what is happening at one time or another, and feel oneself.
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Psychiatry

One Step from “Sticking Stress” to Bulimic Neurosis

Always strive to maintain internal balance. It is a pledge of immunity not only to infectious diseases, but also more insidious diseases. Is bulimia a disease? This term refers to a mental disorder that causes pathological cravings for food and has no physiologically justified reason in the form of natural hunger.
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Psychiatry

Treatment for hallucinations: tablet names

Hallucinations are an image that arises as a result of an error in the process of perception of one or several sense organs. This image exists only in the head and has no connection with reality (external stimulus), but at the same time it can have a sensual color and be very convincing. Causes Who is prone to hallucinations?
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Psychiatry

What to do with hallucinations in the elderly: recommendations

In old age, a person is not always able to distinguish real events from those he sees. And the more health problems there are, the weaker the ability to understand the line between this world and the invented one. General information about the problem These are non-existent images, sounds, tastes or tactile sensations that arise directly in the imagination of an elderly person due to the disorder of the brain and life-supporting systems of the body.
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Psychiatry

Description and characteristics of paranoid personality type

Some mental disorders can have a significant impact on a person’s life, choice of activities, as well as determine the level of his involvement in society. One of these is paranoid personality disorder. What does this concept mean? What characterizes the paranoid state and how can you get rid of paranoid thoughts?
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Psychiatry

Symptoms and signs of schizophrenia in women and girls

In a broad sense, schizophrenia is a mental disorder of an endogenous nature, which is accompanied by a progressive breakdown of thinking and a disturbance of emotional reactions. The causes of this disease can occur at any age. Symptoms and signs of schizophrenia in women have some differences from the manifestation of the disease in men.
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Psychiatry

Examples of exercises and tasks on art therapy

Creative work can help in the fight against stress, depression, various disorders, phobias, improve self-esteem, show the inner world of the patient. Therefore, art therapy is actively used as an auxiliary method in the treatment of mental illness. In order to achieve a rapid improvement in condition due to art therapy, exercises should be performed regularly.
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Psychiatry

Type of course and prognosis for paranoid schizophrenia

Among all the possible problems with the psyche, schizophrenia occupies a special place. This is a chronic disease in which a person distorts the perception of reality and his own personality, emotional reactions. This disease has several varieties. The most common paranoid form of schizophrenia.
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Psychiatry

Asthenic syndrome: causes, diagnosis and treatment

In medicine, there are clear criteria for what is asthenia in humans. This pathological condition is characterized by fatigue, deterioration of working ability, short temper or indifference to what is happening, emotional lability, various somatic disorders (rapid pulse, blood pressure jumps, excessive sweating, etc.).
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Psychiatry

Somatoform vegetative dysfunction and other psychogenic pathologies

Some patients complain of various symptoms in the form of pain, irregular heartbeat, and so on. During the examination they did not show any organic changes. In this case, we are talking about somatizing, somatovegetative or somatoform disorders. What it is? Somatoform, somatovegetative, somatic disorders belong to psychogenic pathologies.
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Psychiatry

Types and signs of autism in a child and an adult

For many people, the diagnosis of autism sounds like a sentence. This is due to the lack of reliable information about this disorder, although in recent years the number of special children has increased several times. In Russia, there is no accurate data on such patients, since many children simply do not make such a diagnosis.
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Psychiatry

Bipolar affective personality disorder: symptoms and signs

Bipolar affective disorder is a disease of the psyche that either suppresses or elevates a person. It would seem that mood changes are inherent in everyone, but here everything is much more serious. A rather dangerous disease, if during not paying attention to the symptoms of bipolar disorder. Brief history The first mention of the bar date back to 1854.
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Psychiatry

How to determine that "squirrel came": signs of delirium tremens

Blue Devils is the most common complication of alcoholism. Occurs on the background of a sharp cessation of drunkenness, expressed in various manifestations of psychosis. The outcome depends on the severity of the symptoms and adequate treatment. Approximately every tenth alcoholic dies from Deryllia. Definition of concept What is the delirium tremens for scientific?
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Psychiatry

Classification and list of antipsychotic drugs

To date, very few people know anything about psychiatry, and, moreover, this topic is considered taboo in society. At the same time, all of us are surrounded by people with mental disorders. One part of them is unaware of this, and the second is being treated, being on outpatient observation by doctors, who regularly prescribe them powerful drugs that help them live normally in society.
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