Psychosomatic diseases are a category of unhealthy conditions arising from the interaction of physiological aspects and mental factors. Psychosomatic diseases are mental abnormalities that are detected at the physiological level, physiological disorders that appear at the mental level, or physiological disorders that develop as a result of exposure to psychogenic factors. Medical statistics claim that approximately 32% of ailments are based precisely on internal confrontation, mental trauma and [...]
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Nicotine addiction

Nicotine addiction is a variation of addiction resulting from smoking. In terms of the rate of addiction, nicotine gives priority to heroin, but it leads among other varieties of narcotic substances. Uncontrolled nicotine cravings in medicine mean a complex of mental disorders, physiological disorders and behavioral disorders caused by tobacco use. Nicotine addiction is quite common. Most of this is due to the legality of the distribution of cigarettes [...]
Food addiction

Nutritional dependence is one of the forms of psychologically conditioned addictive behavior, expressed in the inability of a person to resist the need for food intake. Moreover, the need is due not to the physiological feeling of hunger or thirst, but to a psycho-emotional state, entailing such a kind of activity as the absorption of food. Food in modern society is becoming a drug, a legal permission to have fun, relieve stress, prescribe [...]
Amenia

Amentia is a variation of blurred consciousness, characterized by a predominance of confusion, randomness of movements, lack of coherence of speech operations and thought processes. With amentia, the ability to recognize a place is lost, a failure in the spatial-temporal orientation and a disorientation of orientation in the personality are noted. It is often a complication that aggravates the course of the main pathology, alcoholism, traumatic lesions, endocrine ailments, infectious processes, and some somatic dysfunctions. Native syndrome often [...]
Onyroid

Oneiroid is an illusory perception of reality, accompanied by a dream-like disorientation with the presence of dreamy unfolded fantastic pictures, pseudo-hallucinatory experiences that intertwine with the phenomenon up to its absolute replacement. With oneiroid, spatio-temporal disorientation (often a loss of orientation in the personality) varies somewhat from stunning (manifested by a lack of orientation) and amentia (found in a steady futile search for orientation). A patient with onyroid takes part [...]
Autoaggression

Auto-aggression is a manifestation of destructive activity that is directed by a person directly at himself. Destructive activity refers to suicide attempts, injuries, alcohol abuse, drug addiction, self-incrimination, and degrading statements about oneself. The causes of auto-aggressive behavior, the reversal of the vector of aggression inward, are mainly social. When it is not possible to express one’s own anger to the immediate object of experience, aggression is redirected to either accessible or safe [...]
Confabulation

Confabulation is a memory disorder that refers to a person’s false memories of events that happened to him, which are transferred to another time and connected with fictitious facts. The classical definition of the term was introduced by the German psychiatrist, the author of the doctrine of catatonia, K. L. Kalbaum. He believed that confabulation is associated with a mental disorder (paramnesia), which is what the patient says [...]
Catatonia

Catatonia is a pathology that combines more than twenty symptoms, while some of them are expressed by non-specific manifestations. The core clinical manifestation of the disease in question is motor impairment. Catatonia disease consists of catatonic arousal and stupor. Earlier in the early twentieth century, catatonia was considered only a subtype of schizophrenia. Today, more and more studies prove that the pathology in question is a separate syndrome, [...]