Many people experience a drop in mood in the form of chronic sadness and associated behavioral, cognitive, and emotional problems that prevent them from leading full lives. The DSM-5 establishes very clearly what are the diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder, indicating that the patient must present a minimum of five of the nine symptoms …
Alcohol addiction is a true public health problem in many countries, since it costs the lives of millions of people around the world and is also linked to several phenomena that constitute a social problem, such as traffic accidents or domestic violence . This addiction appears in increasingly younger people in Spain, which represents an …
Long-distance relationships are an increasingly frequent phenomenon in an interconnected and globalized world . The mass use of the Internet multiplies the opportunities to meet someone living in a distant country, and as always, love does not understand geographical areas. And it is that maintaining relationships at a distance is a psychological challenge that not …
The coronavirus pandemic has allowed social scientists to reflect and observe reality in a different way, perhaps a little more slowly. And is that Europe was confined for several months and nightlife stopped in a resounding way. From having for years and years the bars and discos full of young people at all hours, suddenly, …
Visual problems are present in a large percentage of the world’s population, having been on the increase in recent decades and presbyopia is the most common eye disease after 40 years of age. Eye diseases such as myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism, constitute vision problems related to defects in visual refraction, which make it difficult for …
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Schizophrenia is the mental disorder in which the different examples of the psychopathology of thought are most often given, so they are strongly associated with each other. These psychopathologies can also occur in depressive and bipolar disorders. Detecting this type of mental disorder is not easy in many cases, the best way to assess the …
Every middle-aged adult in our society has a slight, or not so slight, perception about the existence of a loss of values, of a social change, of a decline in the way we relate and treat each other, in the way of working in society or of perceiving reality. When I ask my patients what …
Feeling anxious and depressed? According to recent research findings, resistance training can help you boost your mental health and cure symptoms of anxiety and depression. There is solid scientific evidence showing that exercise helps relax your body by increasing the release of endorphins. Again, according to the fitness magazine LifeToliveIt, exercise improves blood circulation in the …
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Emotional well-being is not based solely on how we manage our emotions through actions such as meditating, having fun with friends, or crying when we need to. An act as seemingly mundane as eating also influences him through various psychological pathways and processes . Let’s see how it does it. The neuropsychological implications of nutrition …
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Knowing how to say no or, what is the same, being assertive, makes us defend our rights and opinions while respecting others. But on many occasions, due to multiple fears, it is difficult for us to say no or to set limits to people or situations , even affecting ourselves. What to do to leave …
