Mental health (psychiatry)

Psychopathy in women, men and children

For a long time, psychiatry ignored antisocial disorders; they were dealt with by criminologists and the judiciary. Psychopaths who did not cross the line of the law were considered people with a difficult character.

Derealization syndrome

It is believed that more than half of the human population, at least once for a short time, when experiencing acute stress, turn on such a psychological defense mechanism as perceiving what happened to someone else and/or in another reality, which allows them to abstract from emotions, analyze the situation and find a way out of it.

Psychomotor agitation: signs, first aid, treatment with drugs

Many psychoneurological pathologies can be accompanied by a condition characterized by hypermobility and abnormal behavior that is inappropriate to the situation.

Catatonic syndrome

The main manifestation of this condition is a violation of the tone of the body's muscles, its tension in combination with volitional disorders.

Catalepsy

What feelings does the reader experience when he sees another person in front of him who has fallen into a stupor? Probably, many will feel uneasy, because this is an unnatural state for a living being, immediately reminding us that we are not eternal.

State of affect: causes, signs, characteristics, expertise

Most people tend to express their feelings and experiences in a certain way. But in unexpected situations, this manifestation can be inappropriately violent, uncontrollable, and such an explosion of negative emotions is defined in psychiatry as affect.

Atypical depression

The insidiousness of this mental disorder is not even in the difficulty of its diagnosis. The depressed (depressive) state is associated with inhibition, apathy, lack of appetite and dreary nights without sleep.

Multiple attention syndrome: causes, symptoms, treatment

The pathogenesis of development and symptoms may vary depending on the nature of the disease.

Cliquishness

The concept of hysteria comes from the word "klikat'", "kryat'" (to shout), and means to broadcast. Hysterics were considered to be possessed in ancient times, the result of damage, witchcraft, and the devil's intrusion into them.

Cutaneous trypophobia: what causes it, signs, treatment

Panic fear of open holes and holes is trypophobia. Let's consider the features of this pathology, symptoms, methods of diagnosis, correction and treatment.