Bipolar disorder is not actually a new condition – it has long been known but only was termed as such in more recent years. More »

Alzheimer’s disease, or Alzheimer’s, is a very wide-spread illness among senior people who have crossed the age line of 65. This mysterious disease is considered terminal and degenerative and has no cure so far unfortunately. It generally starts much earlier than it is diagnosed and develops gradually. It can start with short-term memory loss and this symptom is often erratically referred to aging, or rather stress. But it is usually followed by fits of anger, also confusion, language problems occur, a person starts to experience mood swings, then long-term memory loss follows, and eventually comes decline of senses. In the end the Alzheimer’s patient looses all bodily functions little by little and dies. These are common symptoms and they differ in any individual case. More »

Dyscalculia in rough translation from Greek means bad counting. In medical terms it stands for the condition when a person experiences difficulties with mathematics. Which means that a person fails to understand the very concept of numbers, their abstract notion of comparative quantities; such a person has no idea of so-called ‘number sense’. More »

We live in a world that moves around at a crazy speed, our lives are too busy and complicated, we are forced into rough competition far too often… Sometimes we just do not have time to stop and relax and enjoy this very life. This hectic run makes us tired and irritable and there is no surprise that anxiety appears as well. We start to worry about the things that actually do not require being worried about. But the further the worse and soon we find out that these worries are killing us and we cannot control them. The problem has become so severe that among the most popular non-prescription drugs in the U.S. have become anti-depressants and anti-anxiety pills. More »

You will not believe it but for almost every fear there is a certain phobia. We are going to enumerate some of them in this article and all their names are hard to say out loud, so a person with Glossophobia will, probably, be terrified as this phobia stands for fear of speaking in public. More »

Schizophrenia represents a serious chronic mental illness and though the word is well-known to everyone it is often understood in a wrong way. More »

Many people all over the world suffer from mental disorders and Americans are among them. The statistics is such that about 1 in 5 adults has some kind of diagnosed mental disorder. Among the most frequent are major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. There are also cases when a person has more than one condition at a time. More »

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, is not something that parents are able to accept as a problem that requires special attention; contrariwise this is something they want to ignore hoping the condition will pass and soon. All parents want their children to be normal and happy. If your child is diagnosed with ADHD it does not mean that he or she is not normal; but it means extra troubles. And a lot. And this also means that you should do something about it and do not take a laissez-faire attitude towards the problem. More »