Temporal stability of neurological signs in first-episode psychotic patients [Abstract - Scheffer, Correnti, et al. - 1994Scheffer, R.; Correnti, E.; Borison, R.; and Mukherjee, S. Temporal stability of neurolo
In both anxiety and psychotic disorders, the anxiety might manifest as persistent worry about things that others find trivial or extreme nervousness in social settings and social withdrawal. Fear that others are judging or plotting against them is a more reliable sign of a psyc...
The aforementioned environmental risk factors tend to predispose individuals to childhood mental illness. Other risk factors tend to predispose people to develop a mental disorder at any age. Such nonspecific risk factors include a history of poverty, exposure to violence, having an antisocial peer gro...
Postpartum depression, clinically known as perinatal depression (PND), is a type of depression that a woman may get after having a baby and sometimes during pregnancy. Initially, postpartum depression may appear to be the “baby blues” or be caused by the lack of sleep and stress that acco...
You might be curious to know whether the spiritual emergency is actually just a fancy name for a psychotic break, manic-depressive episode, or other severe mental illness. This is a tough question to answer as there’snoblack or white “yes” or “no.” ...
Having thoughts of death or suicide, or attempting suicide Bipolar-related Psychosis Symptoms Psychosisis a break with reality. More than half of individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder experience psychotic mood episodes during their lifetime. Here are thesymptoms of psychosisto look for: ...
About 141 million individuals use cannabis on a global scale. Stimulants like ecstasy and amphetamine are also very popular, with approximately 30 million people abusing them. Cocaine is used by approximately 13 million people worldwide, with the US having the greatest number of users. Heroin and...
hormone helps stimulate peristalsis in the gut, keeping digestion humming along smoothly. WhenT3 drops, gut motility slows, and this can lead to chronic constipation. So, if you’re having a bowel movement only every couple of days, check your caloric intake and make sure you’re not under-...
But if other explanations have been ruled out, extreme mood swings could indicate the onset of apsychotic episode. For example, if your loved one shifts from calm to enraged with little provocation or becomes inexplicably euphoric, this might be an early sign ofbipolar disor...
Delusions are fixed, false beliefs that don’t make sense in the context of a person’s culture. Although everyone has distorted beliefs from time to time, people with psychoticdelusionscan’t be convinced that their beliefs aren’t real. ...