It is completely understandable that parents are unhappy and feel helpless when their daughter or son suffers from an eating disorder , or if there is even a suspicion of one of these disorders. In addition,...

Being concerned with one’s own body is “normal” during puberty. During this period, teenagers often deal with nutrition and diets . However, if certain behaviors and diets become an inherent part of life, one should pay attention. The...

In order to diagnose binge eating, a doctor needs to take a careful medical history . At the same time, he can ask about the eating habits, physical and mental condition, lifestyle and social environment of the disabled person....

Eating disorders can manifest in very different ways. While some patients starve , others consume too much food. Different forms of eating disorders can also combine. But they have one thing in common: for patients, the topics of “food”...

Personality disorders are generally treatable, although therapy is often lengthy and often requires a considerable amount of patience and endurance from the sufferers (and therefore their immediate environment). How is a personality disorder diagnosed ? Diagnosis requires knowledge, experience...

Personality disorders are very complex, which is why they manifest themselves in a variety of symptoms. For the diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders, it has proved useful to distinguish their different types according to the main...

People with a personality disorder often have patterns of behavior that are significantly different from the behavior of people around them, e.g. when it comes to expressing feelings, interpersonal communication or building relationships. They can hardly...

Autism is characterized in particular by a disorder of sensory perception. Visual , auditory or tactile stimuli from the surrounding environment cause significant problems for the disabled . They are literally “overwhelmed” by sensory perceptions, and there are also difficulties in social interaction . In recent years,...

The Viennese pediatrician Hans Asperger was the first to deal intensively with children who exhibited significant symptoms of the syndrome , which was eventually named after him. Asperger’s syndrome belongs to the so-called autism spectrum disorders . Asperger’s syndrome is a severe developmental disorder...

Asperger’s syndrome is included in the International Classification of Diseases ICD-10 among “severe developmental disorders”. By taking an anamnesis , it is possible to obtain important information for determining the diagnosis . At the same time, the doctor ( pediatrician ; child psychiatrist ) asks, for example,...