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.
Basically, panic disorder is an anxiety disorder. Anxiety is a human emotion. It’s when your nervous system reacts to a situation or stimulus that you consider “threatening”. In other words, it actually has an adaptive purpose because it exists to help…
Some people feel the urge to pull out their own hair. The physical consequence, which is immediately visible, is hair loss that may lead to bald spots in the head, eyebrows, and eyelashes. Trichotillomania in children is a worrying disorder.…
According to the field of psychiatry and its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (or DSM-5), there are seven different types of depression. However, these classifications are flexible and subject to change. One of the main problems with psychiatry…
Double depression is when someone with dysthymia ends up suffering from major depression. The dissatisfaction with life, desperation, and fatigue the first condition causes can intensify until you end up in a dark and incapacitating psychological state. It’s possible that you’ve…
A cognitive bias is an information processing error the brain makes. Said error occurs when you unconsciously use previous knowledge or acquired experience to take mental shortcuts. The problem is that these shortcuts don’t always lead you to the right…
Most people have heard of anorexia, but did you know that about a quarter of patients with anorexia also deliberately self-harm? People who are suffering from this disease tend to lose so much weight that they become weak and their…
Schizophrenia’s positive and negative symptoms make it one of the most devastating mental illnesses. Approximately 20 million people in the world suffer from it. In order to diagnose a patient with schizophrenia, the DSM5 states that there must be two…
Some patients try to manipulate their psychologists into diagnosing them with a particular condition by faking symptoms. This is a serious problem that many psychologists have to deal with. At the end of the day, they don’t have any recourse…
Delusional disorder is mainly characterized by at least one month of delusions. In the 17th century, the concept of insanity mostly referred to delusions. Consequently, being “insane” was the same as having delusions and vice-versa. But what exactly is a…
