Stress is one of the most common, yet most destructive emotional states we experience. It can come from everyday life, relationships, work deadlines, or simply spreading ourselves too thin. Or you can feel stressed over more significant problems such as aging parents, medical illnesses, or community violence. Whatever the case may be, stress is a…
It is completely normal for people to overeat at times. Maybe you’ve been there: you order dessert at the restaurant and walk out needing to unbutton your trousers. Or you sit and eat an entire pack of biscuits in one sitting while mindlessly watching Netflix, only to feel very bad shortly after. While many of us…
Depression, or Major Depressive Disorder is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you perceive things and how you behave in your environment. However, it is also treatable with different approaches to treat depression being continually investigated. Depression causes feelings of worthlessness and/or a loss of interest in…
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has recently released the results of the 2021 Community Mental Health Survey, showing that NHS community mental services is at its lowest in 8 years. Participants reflected on their care over the last twelve months, with some interesting findings. Many people have had negative experiences with NHS community mental health…
Panic disorder is characterised by the “out of the blue” panic attacks, which are recurrent, unexpected attacks and the person must be persistently concerned or worried about having another attack for at least a month. For an attack to meet the criteria of a full-blown episode, the person must have an abrupt onset of at…
Emerging techniques for treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), including a neurological treatment approach. OCD is defined by the occurrence of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours performed in an effort to neutralise such thoughts. Obsessions are persistent and recurrent intrusive thoughts, imagery or even impulses which seem disturbing, uncontrollable and inappropriate. People who suffer from obsessions…
In DSM-V criteria, post-traumatic stress disorder is now clubbed with a new group called trauma-and stress-related disorders. PTSD is defined as the psychological or emotional response to a traumatic experience or the aftermath of that trauma. (Association, 2013) This was established in the DSM criteria when the veterans of Vietnam wars were having trouble returning…
Adjustment disorder is one of the short term stress-related disorder which is based on giving a response to a stressor in a way that it disrupts your daily functioning. The stressor is something commonly experienced by the individual but the psychological response to it is less severe than what we experience in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder…
Bulimia Nervosa is characterised by uncontrollable binge eating and making efforts to prevent weight gain by different self-induced methods such as vomiting or eating laxatives. It was actually established by a psychiatrist G.F.M. Russell in 1979 and then later on was adopted by DSM in 1987. From its Greek origin, Bulimia means buos (which means…
Anorexia Nervosa is one of the most common eating disorders, which refers to “lack of appetite due to nervousness” but it is not the correct definition as the lack of appetite cannot be the core difficulty to the effect that a person persistently doesn’t eat. It is the idea behind the action of not eating…
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