Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

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benzodiazepine addiction

Health care; Psychiatry

Many benzodiazepines are used in clubs as "downers" to counteract "upper" drugs like cocaine or ecstacy. They are often referred to as candy, downers, benzos, moggies or tranks. ...

anorexia

Health care; Psychiatry

Anorexia is a severe form of eating disorder which stems from an abnormal obsession with becoming thin. It often begins with normal levels of dieting and exercising but becomes a problem when the ...

Bulimia is a severe form of eating disorder which stems from an abnormal obsession with becoming thin without the ability or inclination to diet and exercise normally. It is normally characterised by ...

codependency

Health care; Psychiatry

A codependent person is essentially addicted to helping people in a way that drastically exceeds the normal care someone would exhibit towards another person. Codependency sufferers need to be needed ...

eating disorder

Health care; Psychiatry

Eating disorder sufferers often exhibit abnormal behavior when eating food. This can take on a wide range of forms from following rigid or bizarre diets, obsessively counting calories on everything, ...

alcoholism

Health care; Psychiatry

Alcohol becomes a problem when the costs of it outweigh any actual or perceived benefits. Drinking problems can very rapidly escalate into alcoholism, which is also called alcohol dependency ...

nicotine addiction

Health care; Psychiatry

Nicotine addiction, or nicotine dependence is an addiction to tobacco products caused by the drug nicotine. Nicotine dependence means you can't stop using the substance, even though it's ...