Medical Report
Amnesia
Amnesia is also associated with memory loss. There are several types of amnesia: transient – the one that happens after brain injury; fixed – the one that happens after a dangerous disease or condition; and progressive – the one that 'cooperates' with dementia and often Alzheimer's disease.
Other types of amnesia are: arer enterograde – when a person cannot keep hold of new memories after the disorder; retrograde – when a person cannot keep memories before the case and global (total loss of memory irrespective of the cause or the case).
There's also a special type of amnesia called disssociative. It results in a person's inability to remember things from his/her private life. A person knows that the information has been forgotten, however, doesn't have a slightest clue about the essence of this information. It's essential to mention that in this case people can cope with easiest tasks, however, they cannot perform something more difficult like going to the market for food or cooking it.
As for the causes of this type of amnesia (dissociative), they are globally damaging. It can be huge stress after some totally outrageous events like war or disaster – anything of the kind that may have been experienced by the person who eventually suffers from dissociative amnesia. As a matter of fact, one of the causes of this type of amnesia is of genetic character implying the fact that a person who suffers from dissociative amnesia usually has relatives who suffer fronm it as well.
With regard to treating amnesia, several therapies and techniques are applied here. They are, for example, psychotherapy or family therapy. In any case, it's important that this disorder to be treated in time.
Mental News
When a person has a personality disorder, this usually signifies the fact that his/her mental development once went in the wrong direction and continues doing so if compared with people with more stable (positive) personality traits.
Main types of anxiety disorders are phobias, separation anxiety, panic attacks etc. As for phobias, they deal with certain object or process or substance – anything that you strongestly avoid approaching or dealing with. Separation anxiety is characterized by someone’s excessive fear of parting with one’s home or someone he/she is very (physically) close to.
Colleagues at work talk bad things about me. I see them gather in groups and whisper some rubbish about my ‘shaky’ mental condition. And then Rachel, sales manager, approaches you and looks as if she wants to kill you. ‘You are on my death list’ she tells you using her lips only – for others to think she approached you to discuss issues connected with your common project.
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