Therapy for mood disorders
Mood disorders are also often referred to as affective disorders and they include problems which affect the mental health such as mania, bipolar disorder and depression. Mood disorders may affect...
Therapy for people with schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a fairly rare condition, said to affect about 1% of the entire human population. However, when we consider the fact that there are about 2 million people in...
Bipolar disorder complications
Bipolar disorder or manic depression is a condition characterised by mood swings. Mood swings vary from extremely depressed to extremely hyperactive. Depending on the severity of the condition symptoms of...
Obsessive compulsive disorder cure
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder. It is marked by inability to control unwanted thoughts, sense of obligation to follow ritual behaviours that are usually repetitive. Most people...
Schizoaffective disorder duration
Schizoaffective disorder is one of the most demanding and peculiar mental conditions, when it comes to establishing a proper diagnosis. Namely, this condition may seem to be some other type...
Bipolar disorder genetics
Bipolar Disorder inheritance At first, the general opinion of the causes of manic depression was pointed at the way the children were raised. In time studies have shown that the...
Treatment for social anxiety disorder
Anxiety disorders first became recognized as abnormal or pathological behaviour at the end of the 19th century, and have since been classified into continuous and episodic anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorders...
Panic disorder manifestations and managment
Symptoms and DiagnosisPanic disorder in individuals involves having repeated panic attacks as well as constantly expecting them to return. A person is said to have a panic attack if he...
Mental disorders: What is causing them?
A mental disorder is a condition which is commonly triggered by abnormal disabilities and distress affecting a person at some point in his/her life. Thus, these factors influence an abnormal...
Drug abuse and schizophrenia
Substance abuse or drug abuse is a maladaptive pattern of use of a substance. Some of the drugs most commonly associated with the term drug abuse are various medications, alcohol...