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Depression Tests: A Great Help in Diagnosing Depression Diso...

Depression tests are given by health providers in order to assess the level of depression of the patient. Different Depression Tests vary not only in their set of questions but on their assessment procedures as well. Depression tests a [...]

Posted On : Apr, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Less than a pretty face: Brain scans show how a disorder leads individuals to perceive themselves as ugly

Less than a pretty face: Brain scans show how a disorder lea...

Despite living in a culture obsessed with physical flawlessness, most people in the U.S. have a relatively realistic perception of their own form and face—blemishes, bulges and all. About one to two percent of the population, howeve [...]

Posted On : Feb, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Advantages of Eating Disorder therapy

Effective eating disorder therapy starts with a correct analysis of the problem along with any other co-existing health problems. Unfortunately, such conditions as anorexia or bulimia often go hidden until extra biological harm has taken [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Gynecomastia and Body Dysmorphic Body Disorder

Gynecomastia surgery is usually requested by men because they feel their life has been inhibited in some way because of their breasts. The ideal patient may be an adolescent that is faced with ridicule from peers which prevents them from [...]

Posted On : Jan, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

Depressed moms linked to child disorders

Children whose mothers were depressed throughout their first year of life have a higher risk of mental disorders themselves by age 6, researchers in Israel say. Ruth Feldman, a professor at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, found 60 perce [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Excessive Body Odor May Be Caused By Genetic Disorder

Excessive Body Odor May Be Caused By Genetic Disorder

Researchers from Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia are reporting that people with unexplained body odor issues may be suffering from a metabolic disorder, trimethylaminuria (TMAU) or “fish-odor syndrome”. TMAU [...]

Posted On : Sep, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Seasonal Affective Disorder Affecting Many This Time of Year

Seasonal Affective Disorder Affecting Many This Time of Year

With the change of seasons upon us, millions of Americans are facing another year of seasonal affective disorder—actual major depression that seems to be triggered by the reduction in the exposure to sunlight that is typical during [...]

Posted On : Sep, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Eating Disorders and Personality Disorders (narcissism)

  Do narcissists also suffer from eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa?   Answer:   Patients suffering from eating disorders either binge on food or refrain from eating and sometimes are bo [...]

Posted On : Jul, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Depression is not a 'brain disorder'?

Depression is not a 'brain disorder'?

I have always taken the conventional view that Professor David Nutt, the scientist sacked from the government's advisory council on the misuse of drugs for advising what the government didn't want to hear, was a man with his head [...]

Posted On : Jun, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

A third LGBT youth suffer from mental disorders

A third LGBT youth suffer from mental disorders

A new study by University of Illinois at Chicago has revealed that one-third of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth have attempted suicide in their lifetime – a prevalence comparable to urban, minority youth – [...]

Posted On : Dec, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Body Disorder - Understanding BDD & Its Symptoms

Body Disorder, better known as Body Dysmorphic Disorder is characterized by a condition revolving around obsessions, compulsions and avoidance behavioral problems. Self imposed constant consciousness related to ones own physical attribut [...]

Posted On : Sep, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Gynecomastia and Body Dysmorphic Body Disorder

Gynecomastia surgery is usually requested by men because they feel their life has been inhibited in some way because of their breasts. The ideal patient may be an adolescent that is faced with ridicule from peers which prevents them from [...]

Posted On : May, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

How Body Dysmorphic Disorder Works

How Body Dysmorphic Disorder Works

Many of us have those moments when we take a look in the mirror and wish for things to be a little different -- perhaps a firmer body, clearer skin or straighter teeth. But what if those moments lasted for months or even years? Some peop [...]

Posted On : Sep, 09 2009 | Comments : 0

Teen Eating Disorder And Anxiety Depression Causes

Body image confusion running amuck? A seemingly "perfectionist" orientation to the smallest details? When does this apparent detail-and-goal orientation by your child "cross the danger line" into obsessive compulsive beh [...]

Posted On : Jul, 10 2009 | Comments : 0
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