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I recently spent a couple of weeks in a nursing home. At age 60, I was by far the youngest person there. I had an injury to my foot that...

There's an old saying that if you are aware of yourself enough to wonder whether you have schizophrenia, you probably don't. The hallmark symptom of schizophrenia is delusion, which is...

Hallucinations are surprisingly common. Many people see, hear, smell, taste, and feel things that aren't objectively there. That does mean something is notably wrong with their brains, but that doesn't...

I have to admit I have a bias in writing about "random," unexplained nausea. I had a mesenteric blood clot, myself. It caused severe pain, but I also remember thinking...

One of the odd things about depression is that you can be depressed and not know it. Your brain can slow down so much you feel bad, even suicidal, but...

What Is Bulimia? Bulimia, also known as bulimia nervosa, is a disease of eating too much. People who have bulimia may be purging, that is, they induce vomiting to remove...

Anyone who manages to come back from anorexia has achieved a major feat of discipline and deserves credit for their success, even if it is hard to keep from going...

The feeling that you are not really there is a fairly common experience, and it is likely to be one of two things, although the number of potential causes of those things is quite large. Most of the time, feelings of "derealization", which the description of these experiences most suggests, or the

Cutting oneself without wanting to and despite the desire to stop and making efforts to stop is part of a disorder of harming oneself that has been recognized since ancient times and in most cultures and societies. Western medicine and psychiatry classed self-harm with suicide attempts for a long

This is a combination of a very common symptom, difficulty focusing, concentrating or being "in the moment", and a less specific and possibly less frequent one, difficulty speaking audibly and clearly at some times but not at others. The list of potential causes, as is often the case when illnesses