Anxiety: Intense, excessive and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations. Fast heart rate, rapid breathing, sweating and feeling tired may occur.
Losing memory: Inability to remember events for a period of time, often due to brain injury, illness or the effects of drugs or alcohol.
COMMON CAUSES: Memory loss can have causes that aren’t due to underlying disease e.g. include ageing, stress or lack of sleep.
Bipolar disorder: A disorder associated with episodes of mood swings ranging from depressive lows to manic highs.
Depression: Depression happens to a person who is always under stress. Often the person who is afraid of something or a situation over which he has no control starts feeling tension, due to which pressure starts building on him.
Parkinson’s disease: A disorder of the central nervous system that affects movement, often including tremors. Nerve cell damage in the brain causes dopamine levels to drop, leading to the symptoms of Parkinson’s.
Hallucination: A perception of having seen, heard, touched, tasted or also smelled something that wasn’t actually there.
COMMON CAUSES: Hallucinations can have causes that aren’t due to underlying disease e.g. include drug intoxication.
Tension: Stress can be understood as any physical, chemical as well as emotional factors that causes physical and mental discomfort and can become a factor in disease formation. Physical or chemical factors that can cause stress include shock, infection, poison, disease, and any type of injury.
Dementia: A group of thinking and social symptoms that interferes with daily functioning.
Not a specific disease, dementia is a group of conditions characterized by impairment of at least two brain functions, such as memory loss and judgement.
Delusion: A belief or altered reality that is persistently held despite evidence or agreement to the contrary, generally in reference to a mental disorder.