Mental Illness

Diagnostic classification system serves three general purposes. First such a system provides a language with which all-mental health professionals can communicate; generally agreed upon the names for the various mental syndromes serves as short hand way of describing the entities that mental health professionals deal with, enabling efficient communication. For example instead of telling a colleague I am seeing a patient who has depressed mood and has lost interest in things; she also has trouble ...

It is characterized by chronic excessive worry, traditionally described as free-floating anxiety. The subjective experience of worry must also be accompanied by the following symptoms.

Motor tension
o Trembly, twitchy, shaky feeling
o Tense, aching, sore muscles
o Easy fatigability
Vigilance and scanning
o Keyed up on edge feeling
o Exaggerated startle response
o Difficult sleeping
o Concentration problem
o Irritability
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A 25 year-old Married Insurance Salesman is admitted to the medical service of a hospital when he arrives at the emergency room for the fourth time in a month, insisting that he is having heart attack. The cardiologist work-up is completely negative.

The patient states that his “heart problem” started six months ago when he had sudden episode of terror, chest pain, palpitations, sweating and shortness of breath while driving across bridge on his way. His father and uncle both had heart ...

The word Mood means the emotional state prevailing at any given time. The word Mood is used in Psychiatry as Major Depressive disorder, Mania, Dysthymia, Cyclothymia etc. There are various Moods that are encountered in general practice like Depressed, Sadness, Anxiety, Fear and Anger etc. Patients visited with physical complaint with various mood disorders.

In Psychiatry there are wide classification of this subject like Mood Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, and Schizophrenia. ...

Ancient Time Human life appeared some 3 million or more years ago, written records extent back only a few thousand years.

The earliest known treatment of abnormal behavior was that practiced by Stone Age cave dwellers some half-million years ago. For certain forms of mental disorder in which individual complained of severe headaches and experienced convulsive attacks, a shaman (medicine man) appears to have treated the disorder by mean of an operation that later came to be calle ...

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