The definition of the term mental health is difficult. It is not surprising that many generations under discussion. For us, mental health, at least not the absence of emotion or conflict. It could be described as the ability to cope with unpleasant periods in your life as a traumatic experience or loss. This should take [...]
Fear and lack of self esteem in our society, perhaps the greatest obstacle to mental health. Anxiety may be due to a collision or an unresolved situation that causes stress. Anxiety can manifest itself in physical symptoms such as poor sleep and bad food. A lack of self-esteem may be because it fails to meet [...]
Conflicts will always occur in life. The ability to process these we identify as mental health. Most people in their lives too predictable patterns of conflict to come. It can be a great comfort to know that we are able to recognize this and are good to deal with than to think that only we [...]
In the development of a teenager’s growing interest in sexuality is a key feature. In this period also changes the body of a child to that of an adult. In addition to these physical changes there are many changes in the life of a teenager in other areas of life. The question “Who am I” [...]
In the early adult years, both men and women to make important choices and decisions made. Business as a career, choosing a partner and start a family ensure that the free time they had as children and adolescents is becoming less. A necessary evil to get ahead in life. For most people this is a [...]
The deterioration of their physical health that most people in older age feel has a strong influence on emotional adjustment. At least 75 percent of people over 65 years suffer from at least one chronic physical condition. One in ten find it difficult to leave his skin. Severe losses, such as the death of the [...]
Despite the image of carefree youth, this time far from easy. Quite a few children find it emotionally difficult to deal with a wide range of topics. Think of self-control, dealing or coping with peers and for example the separation of the parents. The result is that parents often become easily alarmed and wonder if [...]
Signs and symptoms Involuntary voiding at least twice a month by a child older than 5 years. Almost every parent should be the words “Mommy, I wet the bed”. Many children are thus at an early age suffered from an accident. When we talk about bedwetting, or enuresis, but that’s about it at least twice [...]
Signs and symptoms Repeated production of feces in the wrong places (other than toilet or chamber pot) by a child at least 4 years old. Encopresis is frequently produce relief in places where it does not belong like the pants or on the gravel. Encopresis is only found in children over 4 years and which [...]
A child with learning disabilitiesis a child that insufficient action has a specific learning area. This is not the result of a demonstrable physical or neurological disorder, mental retardation or insufficient opportunity to be trained. Usually there is a disturbance on a specific intellectual maturation area – reading, math, language or speech.
Signs and symptoms Body weight at least 25 percent higher than the average. We are talking about obesity or obesity when a person is overweight or that fourth more than the average. It is often caused by more calories into the body than the body can handle. The excess calories are stored as fat than [...]
Signs and symptoms A score of 70 or less at a reduced individual intelligence test. Slowly reaching developmental milestones (moving, speaking) and social and emotional immaturity. Poor performance in school (almost) all subjects. People with mental retardation have limited mental abilities. The disorder is most noticeable during the school year. Mild mental retardation is sometimes [...]
Signs and symptoms Seems to live in his own world. Exhibits bizarre reactions to people and small things in the environment. Very difficult communication. Can not cuddle, sometimes even hatred of physical contact. Almost complete lack of any social contact. Infantile autism is one of the most serious mental disorders of childhood. The autistic child [...]
Adolescence is a time for a child of extensive psychological and physical changes. Some have labeled the adolescent as a child in the body of an adult. A classic situation is where the adolescent unreasonably critical in terms of his appearance. “I hate my nose!” “Do I look fat in these pants do not?” Almost [...]
Signs and symptoms Most of the day or the day a depressed or irritable mood. Apparent loss of interest in almost all activities. Changes in appetite and weight (usually loss of appetite leading to weight loss, increased appetite sometimes). At night, difficulty sleeping or excessive sleeping during the day. Every day tired and lack energy. [...]
It is tragic that every day some young people‘s life takes away. Although for most of the twentieth century the percentage of suicides increased with age and reached a maximum in middle age, this pattern began to change in the sixties. Suicide is now one of the three leading causes of death among people between [...]
Signs and symptoms The girl is sexually active. Late menstruation or stayed away. Swelling or soreness of the breasts. Nausea, especially in the mornings. Weight gain, especially around the waist. Suddenly not like certain foods. Because some teenagers are sexually active, it is important to ensure that every teenager is fully aware how pregnancy occurs [...]
Signs and symptoms An irrational fear of becoming fat. Excessive dieting and exercise take. Significant weight loss or gain weight during a period of growth. Refusing a normal body weight. Absence of menstrual periods. Exaggerated concern about food, calories and food preparation. Many teens begin a diet, but give it a few days or weeks [...]
Signs and symptoms Repeated periods of great food. Self-induced vomiting or laxative abuse. The weight is approximately within normal limits. Fear of getting fat Bulimia, eating enormous amounts of food – usually very high-calorie sweets – in short time. This stuff can go on until it is interrupted by a feeling of saturation or pain [...]
Signs and symptoms Numerous bruises. Several old fractures. Unexplained injuries. Pain in the region of the genitals. Sudden changes in behavior. Loss of appetite. Problems at school. Abdominal pain. It is often difficult for teens than for adults to endure violence, because they react emotionally intense life, low self-esteem and sometimes do not have parents [...]
Like children and young people often find it difficult to adapt to the changes in their bodies and their lives, is also the case in the elderly. The changes in the elderly are physically and can lead to decreased mobility, sexual problems or a feeling of life that can not. Changes in living conditions can [...]
Signs and symptoms Loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities. Being sad feeling. Loss of appetite and weight loss. Sleep disorders. Loss of energy, fatigue. Lack of concentration, memory loss. In older people depression can be difficult to identify. Often shows an elderly with depression are not the typical image of a depression. It [...]
Signs and symptoms Delusions that can last months or even longer, and relate to real life situations, such as the idea should be followed, poisoned, or have a disease to be deceived by the partner. Paranoid symptoms and hallucinations are occasionally in older people, sometimes people who are deaf. When paranoid symptoms, it is often [...]
Signs and symptoms Confusion about day and night (reversal of day and night). Lie awake before falling asleep. Often at night, wake up. Sleep disorders are a common problem in older people, especially those with mental disorders. Many people have trouble sleeping advanced age. The sleep lasts longer than in young people, older people sleep [...]
Although there are many types of personality disorders exist, they all reflect the inability of the requirements and limitations of the outside world to accept. These defects may disturb someone’s behavior, but also his contacts with family and people at work. Before the diagnosis of personality disorder can be accepted, doctors must rule out physical [...]
Signs and symptoms (at least five of those listed) Things are sliding. Grumpy and irritable behavior, arguing. Tend to work slowly and deliberately to function poorly at work that they do not really want to do. Protests (unreasonable) because he believed that everyone unreasonable demands. ‘Forget’ obligations. Believes he is doing his job better than [...]
Signs and symptoms Disrespect for the rules and demands placed by society. Repeated violations of the rights of others. Unlawful, improper conduct. Disregard for the truth. For parents, neglect or mistreatment of their child or children. Physical violence, abuse of partner. No permanent job. No fixed address. Someone who is very anti-social behavior, shows disrespect [...]
Signs and symptoms Relationships that seem very intimate, but in reality very superficial. Highly theatrical and engaging demeanor, emotions are shown in an exaggerated manner. Egocentric. Seek constant attention and praise. Sexualization of relationships. Tolerates frustration difficult. This behavior often leads to stormy and unsatisfactory relationships with others. It is much more common in women [...]
Signs and symptoms Suspicious and very sensitive to whether or not actual insults, hurts and deceptions by others. Often gives the blame to others. Does often mysterious. No sense of humor. Exaggerated sense of self-importance. People who are overly paranoid behavior that worried others “are out to take their bite. Because they spend much energy [...]
Klachten en verschijnselen Afstandelijkheid en kil gedrag. Gebrek aan hechte vriendschappen. Isolement. Gebrek aan energie. Onverschillig voor lof of kritiek van anderen. Mensen met een schizoïd gedrag blijken anderen niet of nauwelijks nodig te hebben en gaan meestal hun eigen gang. Soms leven ze vrijwel volledig geïsoleerd, zonder vriendschappen, en blijven op een afstand van [...]
Signs and symptoms Disorderly or magical thinking. Strange way of speaking (or vague imagery). Misconceptions about the relationship between things (knowing unusual meaning to normal events); Suspiciousness. People with schizophrenia symptoms are similar to schizophrenics in their peculiar way of thinking and speaking, and their strange worldview, but their symptoms are not severe enough to [...]
Signs and symptoms Chronic difficulties in maintaining a positive self-image. Mood swings. Problems in relationships with other people. Impulsive, often destructive behavior (such as suicide attempts). People with borderline personality can be regarded as having a “stable instability“. They have chronic problems such as mood swings, are suddenly angry, sad or anxious, or feel “empty [...]
Signs and symptoms Exaggerated sense of importance, and mighty talented. Looking admiration. Is indifferent to emotions and needs of others. Rejection can be hard to handle. Someone with narcissistic personality have an exaggerated idea of his own uniqueness, importance and gifts. When he is rejected, he exhibits excessive anger or shame. He finds it difficult [...]
Klachten en verschijnselen Overdreven angst afgewezen of vernederd te worden, die leidt tot het vermijden van nauwe banden met andere mensen. Lage dunk van zichzelf. Vluchtgedrag wordt zo genoemd, omdat mensen met een dergelijk gedrag zich zoveel zorgen maken over hun eigen tekortkomingen dat de daaruit voortvloeiende angst voor afwijzing tot gevolg heeft dat ze [...]
Signs and symptoms See themselves as incompetent or helpless. Avoid personal responsibility and leave it to others, even for important decisions in life. Is chronically incapable of the normal requirements of life to meet, but is not mentally retarded. People who suffer from a pathological dependence let other people take charge of their lives. They [...]
Klachten en verschijnselen Perfectionist in all areas and rigid. Symptoms begin early in childhood. At least five of the following characteristics are present: Is such a perfectionist that he is struggling to finish a task. Cares about details – rules, regulations, lists and schedules – and often loses sight of the main. Shows a strong [...]
Emotions and feelings on to do after a bereavement has occurred is called mourning. This process of the grief process is what is called bereavement.
Symptoms The tightness of the chest or the feeling that the throat is constricted. Sleeping problems ranging from insomnia to the desire to constantly sleep. Weight loss or gain. Difficulty concentrating. Confusion. Headaches or other physical complaints. Shy away from social contacts. Lack of interest in daily activities such as cooking, shopping or personal hygiene. [...]
Denial. At first you can hardly believe that the beloved person is really dead or gone. You will be confused by your thoughts, and you can barely concentrate. You can not listen, the performance of you will be less. Despair. The loss could hurt so much that the pain in the body is feeling. His [...]
Sleep disorders are among the most frequently mentioned problems of life. It is important to remember that our sleep pattern changes over the course of life. Not all sleep is the same. By measuring the electrical waves that are emitted by the brains, researchers have found that different stages of sleep. These stages times in [...]
Signs and symptoms At night, unable to sleep. Difficulty falling asleep. At night, waking up with an adult. Daytime fatigue. When there is a lack of sleep is called insomnia this. Patients who have often sleep a little but not enough to assuage their fatigue. When you sleep, you do not realize how long this [...]
Signs and symptoms Abnormal daytime sleepiness. Extremely loud snoring. Observed episodes of breathing during sleep. Headache in the morning hours. Bedwetting in children. When someone suffers from a defect in which there are repeated periods of apnea occurrence lists with this sleep apnea. This is because the air is also shut in the upper airways. [...]
Signs and symptoms Abnormal tendency to sleep during the day. Desire to sleep longer than the usual seven to eight hours. Attacks of daytime REM sleep attacks that can cause muscle paralysis. Amnesia. Dream-like hallucinations. A feeling of paralysis at bedtime and awakening. Narcolepsy is better known as sleeping sickness. This is a disease where [...]
Signs and symptoms Unpleasant tingling sensation in the calves and sometimes in the feet, thighs or arms when someone is awake, especially when he lies. Irresistible urge to move the legs. Sometimes worsening in times of stress. Restless legs is an English term that content: restless legs. With this exception, the legs feel irritable, if [...]
Signs and symptoms Nightmares: unpleasant or frightening dreams that usually occur in the second half of the night. Night terrors (pavor nocturnus): waking up screaming from a deep sleep, with no memory of a frightening dream, except perhaps a frightening picture. When someone is awakened a fearful nightmare called. Once a nightmare, says this is [...]
Signs and symptoms Walking or other activities (opening closet doors, going to the toilet, driving) during sleep. Sleepwalking usually occurs in the first third of the night. In most cases, the duration of several minutes to half hour. Typically disorientation and confusion on awakening. Sleepwalking does not just walking in sleep. There may be other [...]
Signs and symptoms Teeth grinding during sleep. During sleep bruxism is also known as bruxism. No less than 15 percent of all (healthy) people here have problems with. This may be so serious that damage teeth and even choose. Teeth grinding gives more noise at night than during the day. It is often the first [...]
We live at the moment in time of fear. Fear is an emotion that is common, and does so in various forms. Fear is a lot of them, but it is not easy to explain. Often the word fear is often described as anxiety. In medicine is specifically described in the form of: a state [...]
Signs and symptoms Stress or distress at a danger whose source is often not known. Rapid heartbeat and breathing. Tremors (shaking). Digestive disturbances. Motor tension (trembling, muscle pain, restlessness, inability to relax). Sweating. Dry mouth. Dizziness. Impatience and irritability, insomnia, or it difficult to concentrate. With generalized anxiety disorder or anxiety neurosis is persistent fear [...]
Signs and symptoms Feelings of anxiety or extreme excitement and a sense of impending doom. Shortness of breath. Palpitations, pain or discomfort in the chest or feeling would suffocate. Dizziness or unsteadiness. Unreality. Tingling in hands or feet, seizures of heat or cold, unexplained sweating heavily. Trembling. Fear of going crazy, dying or losing control. [...]
Signs and symptoms Persistent, unrealistic fear of an object, animal, activity or situation. Compelling desire to avoid the dreaded. The person can see that the fear is excessive or unrealistic, but the avoidance behavior persists. Inability to perform normal activities. A persistent fear of an object, animal place, situation is called a phobia. This fear [...]
Signs and symptoms Recurrent obsessions and impulses that are experienced as unwanted and appear to be meaningless. The regular performance of rituals, even if they seem completely pointless. People who have a recurring compulsion thoughts or compulsions are suffering from OCD. Obsessions are thoughts of fear, violence, or may be dirty, doors must be closed, [...]
Signs and symptoms The constant reliving of a traumatic event in intrusive memories, distressing dreams, hallucinations, sadness at the annual commemorations of the trauma, and avoidance of thoughts, feelings and activities associated with the trauma. A feeling of loss or estrangement from others, inability to love. Greatly diminished interest in important matters. In young children [...]
Signs and symptoms – The compulsion to repeat certain actions. – Fear of contagion fears of contamination which is being developed. – Fear of losing control over things like the fear of fire, burglary and fraud, this is called coercive control. – The fear of throwing things away or losing, collected cheek. – The fear [...]
Signs and symptoms – Fear of becoming ill. – Fear of doctors or doctors overlook something. – Upset stomach, heart palpitations, dizziness, difficulty sleeping through the fear. Hypochondria is a mental disorder where the patient is afraid to be ill. The patient here is not often afraid of simple diseases, but often serious illnesses. Patients [...]
Signs and symptoms – Anxiety – Cooling – Clammy hands – Hyperactivity – Difficulty swallowing – Muscle Tension – Nausea – Sleep problems – Strained feeling Generalized anxiety disorder is a psychiatric condition where patients mainly suffering from anxiety. This anxiety can be different things for the patient encounter in daily life. A patient with [...]
There is no one type of depression. There are many different types of depression but there are many common symptoms. Often the symptoms: insomnia, loss of appetite, difficulty concentrating, not good decisions, less energy, ultimately suicidal, guilt, can occur in depression. For mild depression, it is possible that changes occurring in the environment can lead [...]
Signs and symptoms A feeling of helplessness and sadness. Sadness. Loss of self esteem. A feeling that life has no meaning. Anxiety or disturbed. Irritability. Withdrawing from relationships with others. When a middle-aged disappointment, there may be a reactive depression may occur. This gives the feeling of sitting in the pit. Reactive depression will not [...]
Signs and symptoms Change in appearance – and a remarkable inertia, whereby the person as it were, or drags a remarkable state of agitation or excitement. A typical sort of depressed mood (which is different from the feeling one has after the death of a loved one). No response to changes in the environment (day [...]
Signs and symptoms Alternating pattern of emotional highs (manic periods, characterized by a very agitated behavior) and emotional lows, or depressions. The manic periods and periods of severe depression alternating each other very quickly, sometimes within days. The depression symptoms are very pronounced and lasting a full day or longer. In the case of bipolar [...]
Signs and symptoms Depression caused by a special season of the year, usually winter. Headache, irritability, low energy. Crying. People can in a long dark winter ever get a seasonal depression. This is not a real depression. It often involves the idea that they should help in the dark to work, and the evening darkness [...]