Trichotillomania - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Trichotillomania is an addiction to pulling out hair and is classified as a psychiatric disorder. It is associated with a compulsion to play with, pull, wrap around the finger, twist, curl and pluck...
Cognitive-behavioural therapy for panic anxiety
Cognitive-behavioural therapy is now a very popular treatment for mental disorders, e.g. depression, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, social anxiety, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress...
Neurosis is getting to younger and younger people
Neurosis is a very common disorder. Not only adults, but teenagers and even children are affected. High social demands, a fast pace of life, traumatic experiences, deteriorating health, high parental...
Nerve tics - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Nervoustics are one of the many types of involuntary movement. They are described as impulsive, uncontrollable, involuntary, repetitive contractions of specific muscles or muscle groups. They cannot...
How to make life easier for an anxiety disorder sufferer?
What are anxiety disorders? Anxiety disorders are an expression of the body's response to danger. The response to external and internal, not always conscious stimuli is expressed by symptoms of...
The life of a slave to obsessions
We all have habits, obsessions or feel compelled to do a particular activity. The problem arises when these behaviours start to rule our lives.
Heart palpitations - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Panic anxiety (paroxysmal anxiety, panic attacks) is a sudden, time-delimited attack of very strong anxiety that is not triggered by any external factor.
Hypochondria, hypochondriacs - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Hypochondria is an exaggerated preoccupation with the state of one's health, experiencing complaints that are not confirmed by an internal examination.
Erythrophobia - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Erythrophobia is the fear of experiencing redness of the body, usually the face. A form of social phobia.
Specific phobia - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
A phobia is one of the anxiety disorders. People with a phobia experience fear of a specific, often highly specific situation and therefore avoid it.
Depersonalisation - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Depersonalisation is a condition in which there is a sense of alienation of the self. It occurs in schizophrenia, neuroses, depressive syndromes, after the use of certain psychoactive substances, in...
Derealisation - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Derealisation is the feeling that the whole surrounding world, the whole surrounding reality has changed. It occurs most often in people with schizophrenia, in depressions, neurotic disorders, in...
Agoraphobia - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Agoraphobia is, literally translated, the fear of open spaces. In practice, it is the avoidance of all situations where it is difficult to get help or get out of a place. Agoraphobia belongs to...
Intractable social phobia - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Social phobia is the deliberate avoidance of situations in which any assessment of a person may be made. The patient avoids such a situation because he or she fears that there will be manifestations...
Reasons for the correlation between exercise and low levels of anxiety and depression
The results of recent studies suggest the existence of genes associated with the propensity to take exercise and with the rare occurrence of anxiety and depressive disorders.
Discrimination against women in the workplace - myth or reality?
The aim of this article is to present current data on career determinants and how women function in the labour market. Let us first look at the main aspects of women's perceptions in their...
Globus - subjective sensation of a foreign body in the throat
The term globus (Polish version - knob) is used to describe the subjective sensation of the presence of a foreign body in the throat that cannot be swallowed.
