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Mental health (psychiatry)

Fear of water

There are also more exotic types of hydrophobia, for example, ablutophobia, when fear causes the need to even rinse your mouth, wash your face, take a shower, do laundry, or perform any procedure involving water.

Fear of long words

What is the fear of long words called? The name was chosen not without humor: hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. Synonyms are shorter, but also not easy to pronounce: hypomonstresquipedalophobia, sesquipedalophobia.

The initial stages of schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is classified as a mental disorder that has preliminary signs that may signal the development of this disease.

Astereognosis

The first stage of knowledge is getting to know the environment through the senses - we perceive the world by looking at everything around us, listening to sounds, smelling, tasting, and touching.

Anosognosia

A clinical phenomenon that is a patient's denial (underestimation) of the defect he has, ignoring the symptoms of the disease is called anosognosia. Such a rejection of one's condition is a way of escaping from reality.

Misophobia

Uncontrolled fear that arises as a mental reaction to a certain, quite safe object or situation is called a phobia. It subjugates a person for some time, it is impossible to resist.

Treatment for delusional schizophrenia

The efforts of a psychiatrist are aimed at achieving stable remission, that is, eliminating painful manifestations that limit the degree of personal freedom of a person, for which a necessary condition is the establishment of a trusting relationship with the patient and his relatives, cooperation with them (the so-called compliance).

Delusional schizophrenia

Delusions are almost always present in schizophrenics, even in rapidly progressing malignant forms in the initial period, disappearing as they “withdraw into themselves” and become increasingly dull-witted.

Schizophrenia and delusional disorder

The content of schizophrenic delusions can be varied, but the idea of hostile external influence always runs through delusional reasoning as a "red thread". Experts call gradually developing persecutory delusions typical of schizophrenia.

Fear of children

We are subject to various phobias, most of which are related to fear for our lives and health. Fear of darkness, heights, water, crowds, enclosed spaces, dogs, spiders, snakes are widely known.