On a number of occasions, people often get confused whether they should go to a psychiatrist or psychologists. Though both the disciplines work towards better mental health, there is a subtle difference between them. Psychiatrists often work as typical doctors and would often prescribe medications to the patients. They also conduct therapy sessions. Psychologists on [...]

Mental disorders are conceptualized as disorders of brain function that may be caused by developmental processes shaped by a complex interaction of genetics with individual experience. In other words, mental illnesses should be based brain imbalances caused by hereditary influences on its development, according to biological and environmental contexts. Over one third of the total [...]

450 million people worldwide are suffering from one or another mental illness. Many people suffer at once by several types of mental illness. Mental disorders occupy four of the ten positions in the list of the main causes of incapacity to work in developed countries (major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder). The most [...]

Forms of neurosis Until now, in psychiatry there was some confusion and inconsistency on the question of various forms of neurosis. For example, the term neurasthenia is used to denote all forms of neurosis, the origin, cause and content of which is not obvious. It must be recognized it is not easy to distinguish between various mental illnesses, and should not be surprising that a disease in which there is no obvious physical changes, is often referred to as “neurasthenia” or “hysteria.” This situation indicates that professionals [...]

The personality determines how a person behaves, what he or she thinks, how it interacts with the world around. The disorder of personality changes occurs, when a person is constantly implementing mechanisms of behavior in an unusual manner. The disorders of personality changes continue for a long period of time, they are persistent. Some types [...]