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as some might know, I’m having Psychiatry for the whole week. We’ve started on Monday. This semester, it’s our first time having this cycle, so we are doing basic stuff about psychiatry. Next week, it’ll be Medical Psychology.
So, the first question thrown to us was – what is Psychiatry? What do u think?
Psychiatry is a branch of medicine which studies the clinical features, etiology, epidemiology, treatment and prognosis of mental disorders. it also studies the organization of psychiatry service.
Psych – in Greek is soul or mind, iatros – is health in Greek. So, it’s health of the mind?
next, we were asked about the difference of psychiatry and psychology?? what is the first thing that will cross your mind? well, psychology studies the NORMAL mental function like memory, emotion, etc…but psychiatry studies the diseases. Yup…that is the line drawn between both!
then, there was the difference between Neurosis and Psychosis – heard before? hehe,…neurosis can happen to normal people which means it’s the condition when the person has mild mental disease and he is aware of the illness and seeks for treatment. but in patient with psychosis, there is profound mental disorder that patient is not aware of the mental illness. I think, one of the reason for neurosis is excessive stress – making someone too tired, exhausted and lead to mild mental illness.
for the past 3 days, including today, i’ve learnt so much about hallucinations, delusions and the whole list of types of delusions! amazing!!! about obssesions, impulse control disorder, disorder of memory, will and emotion.
Wow……..sometimes, i feel i might have very very mild of some of those symptoms or even syndromes! haha….
no pictures yet from me but u can view some from Psychiatry.
rejoice!!
shall update more tonight!!!
