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What is Panic Disorder?
Panic attack occurs when a person, without danger or significant stressor, develops the anxiety symptoms, such as increased heart rate, sweating, trembling hands, chest tightness, abdominal pain and loose stool, numbness in hands and feet, feeling cold or hot, and headache etc. These symptoms come v ...
What is Early Psychosis?
Early psychosis is an abnormal mental condition that is often accompanied with delusions, hallucinations and disorganised speech. The thoughts, emotions and feelings of people suffering from early psychosis are frequently out of touch with reality. If early psychosis is identified in its initial sta ...
What is Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD) is one of the anxiety disorders. One in fifty people would have the chance of suffering from OCD in their lifetime and the ratio of male to female patients is equal. Many children have mild ‘obsessive’ behaviours such as tidying up their toys very care ...
What is Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness. It is caused by the disturbances of concentration of brain neurotransmitters, changes of receptors of the brain cells and structural brain abnormalities rather than pure psychological reasons. Patient will have abnormal thinking, feeling, emotio ...
What is bipolar affective disorder?
From its name, it may be difficult to understand what bipolar disorder is. Another name of this disorder-manic depression may give a clue. As this name suggests, there will be manic and depressive symptoms in someone with manic depression. Depression may be more familiar to most of us. What is mania ...
