Everyday Mental Disorders. Self-Diagnosis and Self-Help

Everyday mental disorders are psychological difficulties that anyone can encounter. They do not reach the level of pronounced psychosis but cause serious suffering to the individual and their family. Psychologists and psychotherapists primarily work with such difficulties, studying them and improving both professional assistance methods and preventive recommendations and guides for self-correction of arising mental problems.
This book is the result of the systematization of knowledge and extensive practice of a modern psychotherapist and serves as a basic guide to mental health. It describes the most common disorders today.
You will learn:
- How to distinguish depression, depressive character, and bipolar disorder.
- Why anxiety gradually takes on stable forms of phobias, panic attacks, obsessions, and compulsions, and can also transition into generalized anxiety disorder.
- How psychological trauma arises and how it is related to addictions, relationship disturbances, physical illnesses, and work and academic difficulties.
- What is really behind the commonly used terms "psychopath" and "sociopath".
- What modern approaches exist for correcting eating disorders, sexual disorders, difficulties with work and money, and age-related "personality crises".
The author provides recommendations for self-diagnosis, as well as for selecting methods of professional assistance and self-help.
The book will be useful to a wide audience interested in the topics of psyche and mental health.