No one will deny that manic syndrome brings the patient a state of cheerfulness. For many patients, mania is a period of denial - they cannot understand that such a pleasant state of constant energy and euphoria actually requires treatment.
The psychology of old age has another problem - loneliness. Many older people, especially widowed ones, live alone. At the same time, there is a significant breakdown of previously established stereotypes of life, behavior, communication.
Elderly and especially old people, due to their physiological characteristics, belong to a socially vulnerable group of the population and need the support of society.
This article discusses bipolar disorder in adults. About 3 million people in the United States, or 1% of the entire U.S. population, have the disorder, with similar rates worldwide. The disorder affects men and women equally. It most often develops between the ages of 15 and 24.
Morphological changes in the nervous system during aging and the special social status of an elderly person determine the psychological characteristics of elderly people.
Depression is a disease. It is caused by changes in the chemical levels of the brain. Depression is not a personality trait and does not mean that a person is weak or bad. It does not mean that a person is going crazy.
Fear is a normal emotion that occurs in cases of imaginary or real threat to the human body, its principles, values. But when fears become obsessive for a person and interfere with his normal everyday life, they are already considered as phobias. The list of phobias is quite extensive, as there are more than 300 of their types.
There are various phobias and it is impossible to list them all. Sometimes they can be so strange that it is impossible to understand why a person experiences such fear. Some phobias are more common, some are less common. For example, the desire to spend as little time in society as possible is a fairly common phobia. Fear of people (anthropophobia) can take bizarre forms
Every inhabitant of the planet is haunted by various phobias and fears, and if you do not try to get rid of them, then they, like a shadow, follow people from childhood, increasingly worsening as a person grows up.
Spiders are afraid of fire, water and people. But people themselves often experience a fear of spiders. This phobia is called arachnophobia. Why are some people so afraid of harmless, small spiders that, in fact, do not cause them any inconvenience at all?
