Clinical Psychology provides us with the tools to research, understand, and treat mental conditions and other conditions. It can also help us to improve our potential and development as human beings.
According to the WHO, more and more people are diagnosed with depression every day. Thus, it isn’t surprising that you know at least one person who’s currently dealing with this condition. When a person begins to feel blue, not only…
The relationship between psychopathology and creativity has been the subject of much interest for hundreds of years. For instance, Aristotle already knew that the most outstanding scientists, artists, and other highly creative people had a tendency to melancholy. In fact,…
Suffering from a depression relapse can be frustrating and scary. If that weren’t bad enough, the relapse is usually accompanied by a sense of guilt and blame. Statistics show that depression relapse is very common; approximately 80 percent of patients…
How would you like it if one day you woke up speaking your native language but with a foreign accent? If you did, then it would be due to what scientists call foreign accent syndrome (SAE) or pseudo-foreign accent syndrome.…
Untreated depression that becomes chronic and doesn’t go away for years can change your brain. Recent studies indicate that the alterations caused by this psychological condition affect brain structures such as the prefrontal cortex, which in turn impairs the patient’s…
Cognitive deficits in schizophrenia can be severe and are often associated with functional problems. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to identify what’s causing the deficits without a concrete neuropsychological profile. It’s important to note that these deficits don’t seem to…
Although the terms we’re going to use in this article are part of our daily lives, for the most part, people don’t use them properly or accurately. This is because the concept of disability has changed over time and society…
As people get old, they start to see changes in almost all their habits. Some often say that people, as they grow old, become more maniacal with things such as food, cleaning, sleep, etc. Why does this happen, though? In…
Encopresis is one of the two so-called elimination disorders, along with enuresis. These two conditions involve the inability to hold in feces and urine at ages in which a child should be able to do that. Encopresis is specifically the inability…
Is pleasure the reason for addiction? Drug dependency is a problem that affects more and more people every day. However, the reason for substance abuse may not be directly related to drugs but to other processes instead. Today, we’re going…
Although most of us think only of depression, there are many other mood disorders. In this article, we’ll try to differentiate and deepen on some that we often forget: mood disorders other than those that involve major depression. (The only…
When anxiety takes over your life, everything falls apart. Anxiety is like an annoying, uninvited guest that takes advantage of your hospitality. It’ll refuse to leave when you tell it to and, without you even realizing it, will throw everything…
A hundred years ago now, drugs were banned for the first time. In this century of the “war on drugs“, countless professors and governors have told people stories about addiction. They’ve become so rooted in our minds that we believe…
Cognitive distortions are frequently biased cognitive treatments. In addition, when we talk about mental disorders such as those in pathological gamblers, then these become more important. Because, in many cases, said distortions either just originated or are among the factors…
Childhood depression affects as many children as it affects adults. However, it’s important to know how to make a good differential diagnosis with some behavioral disorders that may manifest with a similar clinical picture. During childhood, depression usually manifests as…
Obsessions are thoughts, images or impulses that you turn over and over in your mind and can never let go. Everyone experiences obsessions to some degree. Salkovskis’s theory on obsessions helps us understand why they happen and how to prevent them.…
There have been many studies aimed at figuring out what trauma or intense emotional experiences can do to the way a person classifies, stores, and retrieves memories. Is there a link between memory and trauma? Can traumatic memories leave a…
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental condition characterized by many symptoms such as impulsiveness, emotional instability, low self-esteem, and feelings of emptiness. But others, such as destructive pride, aren’t considered clinical symptoms even though they’re very common. People with…
What happens after the first panic attack opens a before and after in the life of any person. It’s a frightening experience that seems to come out of nowhere and manifests with a wide range of physical symptoms. It’s so…
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not just the absence of conditions or diseases. Well, in order to achieve or preserve this state, you can use different…