Learn about culturally specific mental disorders!
In this text, I provide a brief description of six syndromes of mental disorders specific to particular cultures and geographical areas.
Does working too much influence premature death?
Spending more than 55 hours at work each week can be a serious health risk, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) analysis. According to the WHO and the International Labour Organisation,...
Mood swings: find out the possible causes!
Mood swings happen occasionally to every human being, but they can be considered a problem when they occur extremely frequently and the patient starts to function less well because of them. Mood...
Unstable work can worsen mental health in young people
An uncertain and unstable start to working life can have a negative impact on mental health in later years. This was indicated in a study by Spanish researchers.
Bulimia - what can cause this type of eating disorder?
Bulimia is, along with anorexia, one of the most well-known eating disorders. It is characterised by episodes of overeating, after which patients - in order to prevent weight gain - take various...
Community psychiatry - what it is, forms of therapy, system of organisation
Community psychiatry is a vague, heterogeneous and multicontextual concept. In the text, the author presents four main fields in which the concept of community psychiatry is used, which appear in...
The psychiatric hospital as a total institution
In this text I describe the concept of the total institution of the psychiatric hospital, as formulated by the American sociologist Erving Goffman. This author pays particular attention to formalism...
What is antipsychiatry? Profiles of Thomas Szasz and Franco Basaglia
In this text, the author attempts to answer the question of what the anti-psychiatry of the 1960s is by juxtaposing the figures of Thomas Szasz and Franco Basaglia. Although both authors radically...
Lockdown in the lives of people with a history of psychiatric treatment
The current situation related to the COVID-19 pandemic represents a new and, for many, incomprehensible psychological condition. Lockdown, isolation and insecurity make mental health problems related...
Foot fetish. What causes it?
Podofiliato is a variant of fetishism involving sexual arousal during contact with one's partner's feet. Many hypotheses have been developed over the years about this type of fetish.
How were the first drugs for schizophrenia, depression and BPAD developed?
In this article I describe the history of the development of drugs for the most important (from the point of view of the history of psychiatry) diseases, namely: schizophrenia, depression and BPAD.
Sociological conceptions of mental illness
In this text I describe sociological conceptions of mental illness from two perspectives. The first is a systemic perspective relating to social roles and the second is an interactionist perspective...
What do women want in bed?
Every woman is different, because each is at a different stage in her life journey and has had different experiences - all ladies have one thing in common: they want to be noticed, not used, in bed....
Social contexts of mental health
In this text I reflect on the concept of health, pointing to its social element.
Moving away from the scene of an accident - shock or conscious act?
The issue of walking away from the scene of an accident is extremely difficult to consider from the point of view of the perpetrator's liability - as it is not always associated with a desire to...
Dexamethasone vs COVID-19: a breakthrough in the treatment of coronavirus?
The whole world is looking not only for a vaccine, but also for an effective drug that can aid the treatment of COVID-19 patients. Pharmaceuticals that have been registered for other indications are...
The recipe for a long life
Living to a hundred years old is helped by good genes, but this is not the only factor in longevity. A new study by researchers at Washington State University suggests that where you live has a...
Coronavirus in Africa: will WHO predictions come true?
Coronavirus in Africa seems to be gaining momentum. In the third week of May, more than 100,000 cases were found, but, far more worryingly, it has gone from 30,000 sick to 50 in just 11 days. What...
Impact of pets on their owners' mental health
Pets have a positive impact on people diagnosed with mental health disorders, report UK researchers. Now, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Heart Association, a not-for-profit...
Microglia dysfunction and autism spectrum disorders
The causes of autism spectrum disorders - despite the fact that many studies have already been conducted on these problems - are still unclear. Researchers from the United States and South Korea were...
