OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a common, long lasting condition in which a person has uncontrollable thoughts, ideas (0bsessions) and behaviours (Compulsions) that he or she feel the urge to repeat over and over. These repetitive behaviours such as hand washing, cleaning can significantly interferes with persons daily activities e.g school, work, and social interactions. …
MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME
BY DR SAMUEL OLUWATOSIN (MBChB, Ife) What is this condition? It’s a severe form of ‘factitious disorder,’ which simply means feigned or fake illness. It refers to a condition in which an individual fabricates symptoms to gain hospital admission. It was named after a man called Karl Friedrich Von Munchausen who was notorious for entertaining …
EATING DISORDERS
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” -Virginia Woolf. Eating disorders are illnesses in which people experience severe disturbances in their eating behaviors, related thoughts and emotions. They typically become pre-occupied with food and their body weight and shape. It affects most often women between the ages of …
DEMENTIA
Dementia is a condition characterised by progressive, usually irreversible decline in cognitive functioning i.e. memory, thinking, communication, and reasoning that in turn affects the day to day functioning of the individual. Globally, it affected about fifty million people in 2018. There are nearly 10 million new cases every year. 10% of people develop dementia at …
ATYPICAL DEPRESSION
Introduction Almost everyone is familiar with term, ‘depression’. By depression, we mean clinical depression, which simply refers to a disorder where an individual experiences intense feeling of sadness, gets tired easily and has reduced enjoyment of life’s activities; usually for a period of not less than two weeks. However, there is a type of depression …