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“You Broke My Heart” – Is the Heart Really Broken?

Broken heart has become a globally recognized and powerful metaphor present from folklore to popular culture to high literature and back to everyday communication. Broken heart syndrome, also called stress-induced cardiomyopathy or takotsubo cardiomyopathy, can strike even if you’re healthy. Broken heart syndrome is a sudden weakness in your heart muscle. This happens right after […]

Broken heart syndrome

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Depression

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Everyone feels sad or low sometimes, but these feelings usually pass with time. Depression (also called major depressive disorder or clinical depression) is different. It can cause severe symptoms that affect how you feel, think, and handle daily activities, such as sleeping, eating, or working. It is an illness that can affect anyone—regardless of age,

Clinical depression, Depression, Major depressive disorder, Suicide

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Existential Crisis

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Identity encompasses the memories, experiences, relationships, and values that create one’s sense of self. This amalgamation creates a steady sense of who one is over time, even as new facets are developed and incorporated into one’s identity. Identity formation and evolution are impacted by a variety of internal and external factors like society, family, loved

Existential crisis, Major depressive disorder, Mood Disorders, Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

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Evolutionary Psychology

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Richard Dawkins: “The gene is immortal. In fact, a publisher once, when I showed him the first couple of chapters of the “Selfish Gene”, he said: “You shouldn’t call it that… you should call it the “Immortal Gene”. And perhaps I should have done. Genes are immortal in the sense that the coded information they

Evolutionary psychology, Richard Dawkins, William James

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Mood Disorders

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A mood disorder is a type of mental health condition where there is a disconnect between actual life circumstances and the person’s state of mind or feeling. A mood disorder can negatively affect your ability to function normally. It can have serious consequences in all aspects of life, from personal to professional. Mood disorders are

Bipolar disorder, Cyclothymic disorder, Major depressive disorder, Mood Disorders, Persistent depressive disorder, Premenstrual dysphoric disorder

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Somatoform Disorder

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Somatic symptom disorder (SSD formerly known as “somatization disorder” or “somatoform disorder”) is a form of mental illness that causes one or more bodily symptoms, including pain. The symptoms may or may not be traceable to a physical cause including general medical conditions, other mental illnesses, or substance abuse. But regardless, they cause excessive and

Conversion Disorder, Hypochondriasis, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Somatization Disorder, Somatoform Disorder

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Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy

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DSM–5 and DSM-5-TR divide Factitious disorder into two subtypes characterized by (a) the falsification of symptoms or induction of injury or disease imposed on oneself (Factitious disorder imposed on self), and (b) the same deceptions or harm imposed on others (Factitious disorder imposed on another). The latter is synonymous with Factitious disorder by proxy, previously

Factitious disorder by proxy, Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another (FDIA), Mood Disorders, Munchausen syndrome by proxy, Somatoform Disorder

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Cases

Lacey Spears Murdered Her Son With Salt

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Garnett died at Westchester Medical Centre, New York, after he was treated for gastrointestinal symptoms that his mother had induced. His feeding tube had been in place since infancy when Spears told doctors he could not keep food down. When she took him to hospital saying he was having seizures, doctors found his sodium levels

Factitious disorder by proxy, Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another, Münchausen syndrome by proxy

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Factitious Disorder Imposed on Self

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Factitious Disorder Imposed on Self

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Imposter Syndrome

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People who struggle with imposter syndrome believe that they are undeserving of their achievements and the high esteem in which they are, in fact, generally held. They feel that they aren’t as competent or intelligent as others might think—and that soon enough, people will discover the truth about them. Those with imposter syndrome—which is not

Imposter Syndrome

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