delirium

Delirium

Also it is known as "the rapid onset of brain syndrome," delirium is a psychological condition associated with serious physical problems (eg drug overdose or poisoning). Symptoms include confusion and disorientation, loss of consciousness, agitation, apathy and illusions (lack of perception of external stimuli, such as listening to the noise of the wheels of a hospital gurney and imagine that it is a machine maquiladora coming to tear.)

Delirium should be taken very seriously and must be treated immediately, because it can pose a serious physical problem.

Disorder factitious

Disorder factitious

Individuals suffering from this mental illness create the appearance of a physical illness to be the center of health care and / or various types of drug Get Well. People suffering from this disorder usually vuleven evasive and aggressive when they ask questions or are challenged to clear hacerseles of the inconsistencies of their symptoms. Many escape from the hospital or clinic to go in search of other medical centers. Many individuals with this type of disorder tend to have a behavior similar to those who suffer from somatization personality.

Psychotic disorders

Psychotic disorders

Psychotic disorders are serious mental disorders that cause abnormal ideas and perceptions. People with psychosis lose touch with reality. Two of the main symptoms are delusions and hallucinations. Delusions are false beliefs, such as the idea that someone is against or television sends secret messages. Hallucinations are false perceptions, such as hearing, seeing or feeling something that does not exist.

Depression

Depression

Sadness and melancholy are two feelings present at some point in the life of all people, like joy and pleasure. The first two are not in themselves pathological, but sometimes may become so for certain people. When the mood of an individual at a certain point in their life suffer severe and prolonged sadness or related symptoms affecting their ability to relate to others, work or face the day, feelings of sadness becomes a disease, it is known as depression.

symptom:

• Depressed mood most of the day, as indicated by either subjective account or observation made by others. In children and adolescents, mood can be irritable. 
• markedly diminished interest or capacity for pleasure in all or almost all activities. 
• significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain.
• Insomnia or hypersomnia. 
• Psychomotor agitation or retardation. 
• Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day.
• Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt. 
• Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness. 
• recurrent thoughts of death, recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan or a suicide attempt or a specific plan for committing suicide.

Manic-Depressive Illness

Manic-Depressive Illness

Who suffers from manic depression experience mood or your state of much more intense than most people experience throughout their lives mood. These mood changes can range from present sadness in depression to euphoria that characterizes the manic phases. Most patients suffering from both phases of illness, depression and mania, although some experience only manic phases or depressive fa-ses.

This disease is also known as a more technical as is "bipolar affective disorder" term. This booklet will describe the two phases of the disease, the problems of each phase, the ways of dealing with the disease and the various treatments available. Although it is a serious disease, with proper treatment, it is possible to carry out a life in which the enfermmedad not intefiera too.

Tachycardia

Tachycardia

Tachycardia is a rapid or irregular heartbeat, usually over 100 beats per minute to 400 beats per minute. With such a high rate, the heart can not effectively pump blood with high levels of oxygen to your body. Tachycardia may occur in the upper chambers of the heart (atrial tachycardia) or lower (ventricular tachycardia).

Emotional dependence

Emotional dependence

Emotional dependency is a psychological state that is manifested in the relationships, family or friends.Have intense fear of loneliness and panic to rupture, which if it occurs leads to the experience of withdrawal: with intense desire to resume the relationship despite how painful this was, obsessive thoughts, and symptoms of anxiety and depression, which are hidden immediately resume if the relationship or start a new replacing the old one.

Emotional dependents have an excessive need for love and to be loved and try to get this affection throughout their different relationships. Show a clear reluctance to lose the source of security and affection that is your partner.

The syndrome of Alice in Wonderland

The syndrome of Alice in Wonderland

The syndrome of Alice in Wonderland is a neurological disorder that usually occurs in children, usually at night and describes a set of symptoms where visual perception and body image is altered, incorrectly perceiving the size of body parts and external objects, causing disorientation and distortion of the senses.

Normally this syndrome is diagnnosticado in childhood, where the child can feel like the character in the story, a little lost in their dreams; although typically many people no longer feel the symptoms in adolescence, few are felt throughout life, especially at the onset of sleep.

Asthma

Asthma

It is a disease that causes the airways to swell and narrow. This causes wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness and coughing occur.

Causes:

• Asthma is caused by inflammation (swelling) of the airways. When an asthma attack occurs, the muscles surrounding the airways become tight and the lining becomes inflamed. This reduces the amount of air that can pass by them.
• In people with sensitive airways, asthma symptoms can be triggered by inhalation of substances called allergens or triggers.

The neurosis

Neurosis

Are the conditions that show a malfunction of the nervous system. In the neurosis there is no physical injury or personality disorder. The main neurosis are anxiety, uncontrollable obsession to avoid dangerous situations and a lack of engagement with people. Examples of neurosis are panic, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

It is a mental disorder in which people have thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations (obsessions) and repetitive and undesirable behaviors that drive to do something over and over again (compulsions).Often the person behaves in a certain way to get rid of obsessive thoughts, but this only provides short-term relief. Not carry out the obsessive rituals can cause enormous anxiety and suffering.

Cotard syndrome

Cotard syndrome

In this rare psychiatric disorder, the affected believed to have died, or has lost blood or an internal organ. This delirium can be dangerous because the deranged can act unpredictably. Often these behaviors are associated with nihilists and hypochondriacal personalities.Cotard syndrome is named after Jules Cotard, who was the first doctor who diagnosed this strange condition. He described the different phases of the disorder in a letter written in Paris in the 1880 thesis.

People affected by the syndrome Cotard refuse social contact and neglect their personal well-being. Its cause often lies in neurological or mental pathologies, and is associated with derealization and depression.