Psychiatry 2025, January

Borderline personality disorder is one of the most severe personality disorders. Patients who struggle with it are impulsive, often depressed in mood, and feel rejected when, in fact, they distance themselves from other people. What are the symptoms of borderline and what other problems may be associated with borderline personality? What are the treatment options for borderline personality disorder?…

Schizophrenia in children is a dangerous disease - nobody needs to be convinced about it. Symptoms of childhood schizophrenia - emotional withdrawal, avoidance ...…

There is a growing number of people who lose this ability to experience small joys. This condition (anhedonia) is a key symptom of modern depression. They suffer from it ...…

Early symptoms of schizophrenia can be very difficult to recognize. Sometimes they are treated as a result of the puberty process, drug use or simply ...…

Mood stabilizers (mood stabilizers) are a group of psychotropic drugs used in the treatment of bipolar disorder and borderline disorders ...…

Cognitive disorders include problems with memory and attention, as well as abnormal sensations or pathologies related to processes ...…

Fear of heights (acrophobia) may appear before a potential bungee jump, but also in the event of a need to climb a ladder or a higher floor, such as ...…

Schizophrenia is constantly recognized as one of the most serious mental diseases and indeed, if left untreated, it can have an extremely negative impact ...…

Permanent personality changes can be the result of traumatic long-term stress or a single situation. The changes that then take place in the personality do not take ...…

Sleep paralysis (sleep paralysis, sleep paralysis) is a sleep disorder that paralyzes muscles while maintaining awareness that occurs ...…

Catatonic schizophrenia is a type of mental disorder in which the dominant symptoms of a movement disorder, such as agitation or vice versa - freezing in one ...…

Electric shocks - contrary to appearances - are still used in psychiatric treatment. Electroconvulsive therapy is quite an interesting issue, because thanks to ...…

Stupor (stupor) is a state of impaired motor activity, consisting of significantly decreased reactivity to essentially all kinds of external stimuli ....…

Psychotic disorders are a group of mental disorders that share several common features, the most characteristic of which are hallucinations and delusions of various kinds ...…

Neurosis - the symptoms of this ailment are primarily anxiety. Patients with neurosis may also experience symptoms such as palpitations, shortness of breath, and persistent abdominal pain or headache. What is neurosis, how is anxiety neurosis, obsessive compulsive disorder, gastric neurosis or heart neurosis manifested?…

Generalized anxiety disorder (generalized anxiety disorder) is one of the most common mental disorders in patients. The essence of this problem is the performance ...…

Bipolar disorder is characterized by the occurrence of episodes of low and high mood in patients.…

Probably everyone has heard about mood disorders - after all, one of the problems among them is depression. However, affective diseases can be associated not only with ...…

In the course of schizoaffective disorders, patients simultaneously experience disorders typical of two different entities, namely the symptoms of schizophrenia and ...…

Phobia is a neurotic disorder. Fear is a natural and welcome response to an emergency. And it can save our lives. However, it also happens that they are completely paralyzed ...…

Mental retardation (intellectual disability) is a developmental disorder that manifests itself in a significant reduction in intellectual functions. It involves a lot of trouble ...…

Narcolepsy is a disease from which one of the characters in the movie My Own Idaho suffered. What is this rare disease? Some of us fall asleep for a long time. O ...…

PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder is found in people who have experienced a traumatic event. This experience causes a recurring, intrusive, and distressing recollection of the event, including images and feelings. What are the causes and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder? Is it possible to heal a sick person with post-traumatic trauma?…

Schizophrenia, despite research into the disease and various treatments, continues to cause fear in society. It turns out that people after a mental crisis live among ...…

The hypochondriac is constantly struggling with pain and a long list of diseases. Not a day goes by without something hurting him. Doctors spread their hands - research shows that the patient is ...…

Anorexia is one of the eating disorders. It leads to drastic weight loss and sometimes even death. At the root of the disease is a deep emotional crisis ...…

Relatively often there are minor obsessions. For example, when someone starts humming a song, then he cannot get it out of his mind all day long. Sometimes ...…

Personality disorders are not easy to diagnose - incl. because the criteria for recognizing individual personality disorders are so extensive that they are difficult ...…

Psychosis is a group of mental disorders characterized by a disturbance in the perception of reality. These disorders lead to the sick ...…

Misophonia (hypersensitivity to sounds) makes a dinner with a loved one, which for many people is the perfect plan for a romantic evening, for a person with this ...…