| The term "Psychiatry" was introduced by Doctor J.C. Reil from Germany at the beginning of the XIX century. Psychiatry is a science that studies and treats mental illnesses.
Psychiatrists can treat a lot of mental illnesses.
Psychiatrists work across the globe. Psychiatrists help people to overcome depression, treat insomnia etc. There are a lot of mental illnesses and phobias that need specialist medical aid.
Common mental disorders are anorexia, hallucination, depression, tiredness, anxiety, confusion, erratic behaviour etc.
One of the commonest mental illnesses now is anorexia. It starts when a person, commonly a young girl starves deliberately or eats less to become slimmer. Eventually, starving leads to a compete loss of appetite and disastrous health problems, such as infertility in women.
Schizophrenia is another severe mental disorder. Specialists have been studying it for years. It is an abnormal perception of reality badly affecting all five human senses. Hallucinations, abnormality in speech, unarranged thinking pattern, paranoia are common behavioral patterns in schizophrenic patients. Schizophrenics commonly suffer from major depressions and anxiety disorders. People with schizophrenia have a much shorter lifespan than mentally healthy people. One of the reasons is a high rate of suicides among people suffering from the disorder. Although it is not passed from parents to children, Schizophrenia is recorded to affect family members.
Harmful substance abuse remains a common problem to be treated by specialists. Social problems, for example unemployment, poor living conditions and homelessness, are common as well.
PSYCHIATRY handles mental disorders that are resulted from chemical imbalances in the brain. The way people think, percept the reality, their beliefs and a lot of other things form their psyche which may be severely challenged due to circumstances. A psychiatrist through a psychiatric aid and medications try to renew the balance in the brain. This process is time-consuming and requires a lot of effort. |
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