Edelweiss: Psychiatry Open Access (ISSN 2638-8073)

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Backgrounds More recently, some medical knowledge and clinical evidence suggests that suicide events or episodes are partly associated with human mental condition and episode [1]. Some possible interactions and convergence between outside factors (socioeconomic catastrophe) and a number of mental health problems (co- View more

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Introduction In the past decade or so there has been a development for the addiction paradigm to be applied to sexual behaviors. An increasing number of people are reporting excessive thoughts or behavior that is sexual in nature, and that they claim causes them suffering. They attribute this suffering as sex "addiction" [1]. Diagnosing sex ad View more

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Introduction More than 30 years ago Antonovsky introduced the concept Sense of Coherence (SOC) [1-3]. He defined SOC as “global orientation that expresses the extent to which one has a pervasive, enduring though dynamic feeling of confidence that the stimuli derived from one’s internal and external environments are structured, predictable View more

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Introduction Chemotherapyhuman psychobiologicalAssessment of pre-treatment anxiety is challenging and mainly based on lengthy questionnaires or plasma biomarkers that cannot be used for bedside decision-making. There is a potential role for noninvasive, real-time, and point-of-care biomarkers such as to identify anxious patients and to target View more

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Introduction  The burden of depression and other mental health conditions is on the rise globally [1], among all age groups including medical students among whom it has continued to constitute enormous concern, often associated with poor academic performance, disability and poor quality of life [2-6].  Depression is a leading c View more

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Background   Insurance is a business, an exercise in statistics, and a game of psychology between players, all at the same time. The academic literature about insurance covers topics ranging from the statistical analysis of norms to the selling of policies, and of course to the fulfillment of obligations. When people buy insur View more

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Background  Mental health issues in primary care are common. Here we present the case of a 56 years old lady with a lesser known problem. Although delusional parasitosis - manifested as an unshakeable erroneous belief of infestation is quite rare [1,2], this case highlights the importance of a proper evaluation of a patient’s symptoms, the View more