A patient with a mental disorder or illness can function just like any other person
Many people think that a patient with a mental disorder or illness is a person who has no chance of starting a family or functioning well in society. However, this is simply a myth: mental disorders...
Electroconvulsive therapy and suicidal thoughts and intentions
Electroconvulsive therapy is definitely not a first-line treatment method - rather, in psychiatry, it is only used when other available therapeutic options do not work. However,a team of researchers...
What might be the unusual symptoms of mood disorders?
Mood disorders, of which depression is the most well-known, are usually associated with symptoms such as significant sadness, depression and aversion to life or suicidal thoughts. In practice,...
Autism: is it difficult to recognise this disease entity?
Autism - a diagnosis that often frightens parents, while offering relief that it has finally been made. Unfortunately, it is common for parents to bounce from one doctor's door to another, who repeat...
What treatment methods are used in psychiatry?
Psychiatry is mainly associated with the conversations that take place between a psychiatrist and his patient. Certainly, dialogue can have a beneficial effect on the patient's mental state, but the...
Psychiatric treatment in a child? Find out what can affect them
Does your child have a disorder that requires treatment, such as anxiety, neurosis, depression or psychosis? It is worth being aware that many of the substances used for the drug treatment of such...
What are schizoaffective disorders?
Schizoaffective disorder is actually a combination of two theoretically completely separate problems, namely schizophrenia and affective (mood) disorders. It is not at all easy to recognise this...
Mental disorders and brain tumours
Brain tumours typically result in neurological abnormalities, but in practice they can also lead to a variety of psychiatric disorders, ranging from depression to personality changes and even...
Viral infections can cause mental disorders
The exact causes of most psychiatric disorders are still unclear. It is for this reason that many scientists continue to search for factors that may be responsible for the occurrence of such...
The use of virtual reality in the treatment of psychotic disorders
The treatment of psychotic disorders is typically associated with pharmacotherapy. Indeed, medication plays a fundamental role in the treatment of psychosis, however, it is not the only way to...
Allergic diseases can increase the risk of mental disorders
It has long been known that certain somatic problems can increase the risk of mental disorders - so it comes as no surprise that, for example, diabetes or a heart attack increase the risk of...
Pathological desire to amputate one's own limb: apotemnophilia
Apotemnophilia is a rare and extremely emotionally charged psychological disorder involving a patient's desire to amputate their own limb. Despite the passage of many years since the first...
Objective tools in psychiatry - about laboratory tests
The psychiatrist tries with all available methods to create as accurate a picture as possible of the patient who comes to his office. The psychiatric examination begins with a thorough medical...
Fregoli syndrome: when a patient starts misidentifying people...
Fregoli syndrome belongs to the delusional disorders, or more precisely to the group of delusional misidentification disorders. In the course of this entity, patients may believe that different...
Mental illness in a parent and risk of illness in an offspring
Parents with mental health problems may often wonder whether their children will also develop similar problems. On the basis of currently available research, it can be concluded that indeed -...
Mental disorders as a side effect of pharmacotherapy
There are many potential causes of mental disorders, including the role of genes or environmental conditions in their pathogenesis. However, problems such as hallucinations, lowered or elevated mood...
Prepsychotic state, or how to detect the illness before it fully develops?
The prepsychotic state is not always easy to catch. However, it is an important issue because it is believed that the earlier treatment of psychotic disorders is undertaken, the better the prognosis...
Electroshock therapy: should we really be afraid of it?
In many films, we can come across scenes where a person undergoing electroshock therapy is convulsing. Not surprisingly, electroshock is generally associated as a drastic method and one that is...
What is Rapunzel syndrome?
Rapunzelsyndrome is a very rare type of intestinal obstruction. Its direct cause is the habit of eating hair (trichophagia). In many cases, trichophagia coexists with a disorder that involves hair...
What influences the incidence of mental health problems in children and young people?
The incidence of the need for mental health professionals is increasing among children and young people. What is causing this? Is poor upbringing and an overabundance of electronics in the...
