For schizophrenia spectrum disorders are mental illness, according to his symptoms similar to schizophrenia, but on its degree is not equal to it. They sometimes have such a blurred picture that not only the patient's relatives, but sometimes also medical workers “look…
The risk of developing depression for each individual person in a lifetime is approximately 20%. According to scientists, this is due to the processes of urbanization, a multitude of stressful events awaiting a modern person literally at every step,…
Depression. What to do? How to deal with depression on your own We asked ourselves the following question: "How to improve your mood and well-being?" How to get rid of the manifestations…
Depression cannot be treated without psychotherapy and patients themselves seek this form of medical and psychological help. For a long time they do not dare to resort to taking medications and, having started…
Every year, 15% of adults aged 18 to 74 years experience decreased mood, unwillingness to communicate, apathy, sleep disturbances and anxiety. It is with depression that 75% of all visits to psychiatrists and psychotherapists are associated . There are two…
For more than twenty years, they have been trying to treat depression with the help of light, counting on a change in the disturbed biological rhythms of a sick person. It has been experimentally proved that…
Of interest are domestic options for psychotherapy for depression, which are often quite eclectic. Among the methods of domestic psychotherapy, one can note the therapy of creative self-expression, proposed by M. Burno. Creative…
Depression in old age is extremely common. It has been established that 15-20% of people over 60 suffer from depression, and in patients with serious therapeutic diseases this figure reaches 40-60%. Not all…
People often talk about depression without always clearly understanding the meaning of the word. So what is Depression? In fact, the concept of "depression" has existed for over a hundred years and in translation from Latin means suppression…
The duration of an episode of depression is an important diagnostic criterion. Typically, a depressive disorder lasts at least 2 weeks, and a major depressive episode lasts at least 2 years. According to some researchers, clinically expressed depressive disorders take on a chronic course in 1/3…