Munchausen Syndrome and Factitious Disorder is truly a horrible mental/personality disorder that not only affects the sufferer but the family and friends of this person as well. Munchausen Syndrome and Factitious Disorder is a faking or indusing illnesses or injury for the sake of being treated and the sympathy that person garners.

So is there any treatment for this ? It appears the only way treatment occurs is when one can convince the sufferer to enter some sort of counseling or...

From the people who brought you Mathematics Disorder and Disorder of Written Expression and even Caffeine Disorder, now bring you Compulsive Shopping Disorder. In other words, a shopaholic. According to the experts, if you have a strong urge to go shopping, for anything from clothes to cars, at any time of the year, that means you might have a mental illness.

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 4th Edition (DSM IV) put out by the American Psychiatric...

Children with autism can still perform daily functions and can be integrated in normal classrooms while at school. However, this is predicated upon the teacher's willingness to learn methods to teaching autistic children and their patience. Autistic children learn and understand differently than other children. They have a different skill set, but can learn a lot. Even though they are limited due to their disability, autistic children can really surprise you when it comes to how much...

Music is often dubbed as the universal language. And rightly so. It's a language that doesn't need interpreters. Irrespective of the lingual, social, and cultural background of a person music never fails to strike the chord within. Words fall short in the description of this divine gift of God that the human race has been blessed with. A person who is averse to the effects of music is sometimes not even considered to be a human! Such is the power of music. It's the uniting bond for the...

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1. It is perfectly normal for a parent to feel anxious about a child's approaching teenager years and more so, when the child is autistic. Many children lose control over their emotions and physical changes apart from mental changes mark the beginnings of adolescence for them. Parents need to educate themselves about information regarding bodily changes and emotional needs of teen kids so they can help their children deal with these transitions occuring in the...

Agoraphobia is not a "fear of open spaces" as it is often interpreted from the Latin meaning but it is an anxiety disorder that is classified as agoraphobia because the fear is linked with situations that are out of the sufferers control and gives them no place to escape leading to them often holing up on a "Safe space" like their home; thus the misconception they fear open spaces or markets. Luckily there is help for agoraphobia sufferers that can give them...

There has been great debate about such maladies as Depression and Anxiety and whether they represent what some term a ‘chemical imbalance’ and what others say are simply natural reactions so life’s events.  The crux of the issue really comes down to a nature vs. nurture argument.  In this article I explore both sides of the debate and hopefully shed some light on the issue.

Nature:  Chemical Imbalance

There is no question that our emotions...

Occupational therapists believe that there is a relationship between occupation, health and well-being. Findings from studies over the years indicate that occupation has an important influence on health and well-being. Ranging from physiological to functional outcomes, it is clear that the performance in everyday occupations is an important part of everyday life. Withdrawal or changes in occupation for a person have a significant impact on a person’s self-perceived health and...

Medical professionals, for years, were under the assumption that schizophrenia and bipolar were two diseases with very comparable symptoms. German psychiatrist Eric Kraepelin said that the illnesses were very different mental disorders. Separation of the two diseases still exists even today thanks to Kraepelin.

People need to understand that these two diseases are very hard to distinguish from one another because they do have the same symptoms and signs which makes it...

Whenever you have to deal with frustration, you have to distinguish two kinds of frustration.

1. You've got this problem because you don't express yourself clearly enough. This means that the other people don't realise that what they are doing is not what you want.

2. The situation is frustrating, but you cannot do much about that situation.you are dealing with.

I received a question from someone who had to deal with frustration, because his...