Abnormal psychology

More than half a million Greeks are estimated to have been diagnosed with depression, according to experts at the 2nd Mental Health Conference, which began on Thursday at the Zappeion Hall in Athens.

1% of Bulgarians suffer from severe psychotic disorders and nearly 20% have had some form of less serious psychotic disorders which, in most cases, resulted in aggression or anxiety, announced the National Centre for Public Health and Analyses.

A lawmaker from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has conducted a press statement in parliament with his daughter with autism in an effort to draw attention to the hardships that people with autism face in education. 

Doctors in the Netherlands allowed a former victim of child sex abuse to end her life because she could not live with her mental suffering.

The woman, who was in her twenties, suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder that was resistant to treatment after being sexually abused for more than 10 years, as Daily Mail reports.

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormal emotions, thoughts, social behavior and a failure to understand reality. 

A private doctor recommended that the German pilot who crashed a Germanwings jet into the Alps last year should be treated in a psychiatric hospital two weeks before the disaster, French investigators said March 13.

"Let Us Not Ignore - Schizophrenia Journey from Pre-history to Today," a newly opened exhibition in Istanbul's Be?ikta? district, aims to display the lives of schizophrenia patients. 

The inundation of healthy diet advice on the internet has definitely raised awareness on the benefits of consuming nutritional and natural foods to people’s lives, especially in a society where a sedentary life style is prevalent. However, there is a danger when going too far with the obsession of ‘eating healthy’, and it is called ‘orthorexia nervosa’. It is a term coined by Dr.

Researchers found that people who join religious organizations have better mental health than those who don’t. In fact, a four-year study by the Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands monitored 9,000 people aged over 50 across Europe found that a session at church was more beneficial than taking part in sport or charity work.

"What Sofia appears to finally understand is that dependence on Russia is not a viable development model and Russia's aggression in Ukraine is a direct security threat," Dariusz Kalan writes in the Foreign Affairs magazine. 

Not just the governing conservative elite, but also the Bulgarians seem to be sharing this belief, the author says in the article, which you can read here.