Psychology is Everywhere...
Ok, so its summer time now. The days are longer, the sun is shining and you’re walking around with a broad grin on your face. No? There could be a reason for your less than jovial feelings and it’s known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Usually experienced in winter but can also be found in […] Read more »
Interesting title right? Well if you find yourself in the position of earning more than your husband then you might want to check the medicine cabinet. The study performed by Lamar Pierce between 1996 and 2006 on 200,000 Danish people found that men who earned less than their wives were more likely to use erectile […] Read more »
I thought I would put this list together to highlight some of the strangest things that our minds can do when they have gone off in their own direction. Some of these disorders are very damaging but luckily they are also extremely rare so I wouldn’t worry too much about suffering from them but they’re […] Read more »
Seizures are commonly called ‘fits’, and when asked ‘what causes a fit/seizure?’ many people would say epilepsy, quite rightly because that is the most common cause of seizures. But there are many other causes of seizures ranging from head injuries, to eclampsia in pregnant women, and even brain cancer. Epileptic seizures are a product of […] Read more »
At its simplest, one could say a psychopath cares, and a sociopath doesn’t. But like all mental health conditions it is a lot more complicated than that. Both conditions appear to apply to people with high levels of intelligence, and the description ‘high functioning’ is often placed before both terms. But whilst they may have […] Read more »
What is cutting and how many people do it? Cutting is the most common form of self-harm. Self-harm can also include: deliberate attempt to self-poison; anorexia; bulimia; binge drug or alcohol use; abuse of medicines; deliberate head banging and even hair pulling. The ICD10 and DSMIV are not particularly helpful in their explanation or diagnosis […] Read more »
In common reference the terms sociopath and psychopath appear to have become interchangeable, but they are not. Whilst both are people with a mental illness that separates them from the rest of society the psychopath appears to have a continuous anger at the world and people with a disposition toward violence, whilst the sociopath literally […] Read more »
Many mental health conditions can occur together within a single individual. When two or more conditions occur together within one person at the same time, they go by the sad sounding term “co-morbid”. Now just because two events occur together it does not mean one causes the other for example there is a well-known link […] Read more »
In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth kills herself because she is haunted by the fact that she was involved in the killing of the king. She is seen night after night sleepwalking while obsessively cleaning her hands to rid them of the imagined blood stain. Knowing will never be clean again, she throws herself from […] Read more »
What is frontal lobe dementia? The frontal lobes of the brain are located as the name suggests at the front of the brain. Loosely speaking, it contains what we call the higher functions of the brain. These are the areas of the brain responsible for emotions, understanding, speech; some types of movement, planning and judgement […] Read more »