Avdeev D.A./Mental Diseases: Orthodox View / Library Golden-Ship.ru D.A. Avdeev Orthodox Encyclopedia "Home Doctor" in Questions and Answers
How to understand the views on this disease? 29. Question: Explain the spiritual causes of neuroses. 30. Question: Are there any stages in the development of neurosis? 31. Question: Nervousness and sinful passion. Explain their relationship. 32. Question: What other spiritual causes can cause neurosis? 33.
Question: Which of the forms of neuroses is the most common? 34. Question: What is the most important cure for neurasthenia? 35. Question: Explain the term "chronic fatigue syndrome". 36. Question: Are there cases of psychological breakdowns in Orthodox Christians? 37. Question: Explain the term "hypochondria." 38.
Question: Tell us about obsessive-compulsive neurosis. 39. Question: How can we find peace of mind? 40. Question: What are "character accentuations"? 41. Question: What is psychopathy? 42. Question: Is psychopathy curable? 43. Question: Tell us about psychosomatic disorders. 44. Question: What diseases are psychosomatic? 45.
Question: Does the character affect the occurrence of certain diseases? 46. Question: Is character the only basis for "painful" behavior? 47. Question: Explain the meaning of the term "alexithymia". 48. Question: I suffer from bronchial asthma. I heard that this disease develops on a nervous basis. Tell us more about it. 49.
Question: The doctor said that I have vegetative-vascular dystonia. What is this disease, what causes it and how to treat it? 50. Question: Is it possible to be treated by an unbeliever, an unorthodox psychiatrist? 51. Question: Is it possible for an Orthodox person to take psychotropic drugs? 52. Question: Are mental illnesses curable? 53.
Question: Tell me, is it useful to treat mental disorders with hunger? 54. Question: I have heard that sins can turn into specific diseases. Could you tell us more about this? 55. Question: Is it permissible to seek help from a sex therapist? I want to know the opinion of an Orthodox doctor on this issue. 56.
Question: Do women have any mental abnormalities after abortion? 57. Question: I used to be interested in extrasensory perception and some other occult methods of "healing". After I was baptized, I realized that it was a sin and I no longer do such things. What should I do with books on the occult? 58. Question: What is the relationship between spiritual and mental health? 59.
Question: How does rock music affect the human psyche? 60. Question: How would you advise to treat stuttering? 61. Question: What is an "occult disease"? 62. Question: How do psychics harm the soul? 63. Question: Are there any methods of psychological influence that are used in totalitarian sects? 64.
Question: Can being in a sect have a negative impact on a person's psyche? 65. Question: In your speeches, you often refer to the works of Professor D. E. Melekhov. Tell us about it. 66. Question: I suffer from insomnia. Tell us about the reasons for its appearance. 67. Question: Is insomnia always a manifestation of a disease? 68.
Q: What types of sleep disorders are known? 69. Question: Are there any spiritual causes of poor sleep? 70. Question: What can you advise to improve sleep? 71. Question: Does honey help with insomnia? 72. Question: Is it possible to take sleeping pills on your own? 73. Question: What herbal remedies are used for sleep disorders? 74.
Q: How should I take herbal remedies that improve sleep? 75. Question: Our child is 4 years old. He does not sleep well at night, tosses and turns, wakes up and moves from his crib to us. What should we do? 76. Question: What makes a child gnash his teeth in his sleep? 77. Question: Tell us about the Orthodox attitude to dreams. 78. Question: Should we believe in dreams? 79.
Question: My son can watch TV for days and says that he relaxes like this. Does it harm him? 80. Question: Does our social reality affect people's mental health? 81. Question: Tell us about depression and its causes. 82. Question: Tell us about the clinical manifestations of depression. 83. Question: What types of depressive disorders are described in psychiatry? 84. Question: Tell us about the treatment of depression. 85.
Question: Tell us more about neurotic depression. 86. Question: Is all sorrow sinful? 87. Question: Explain the difference between despondency and sorrow. 88. Question: How are despondency and sorrow related to other sinful passions? 89. Question: Can despondency be associated with lack of faith? 90. Question: How to overcome neurotic depression? 91.
Question: Is suicide a medical or spiritual problem? 92. Question: What are the causes of suicide? 93. Question: What is "endogenous depression"? What are the reasons for its origin? 94. Question: Tell us more about masked depression. 95. Question: My mother was diagnosed with involutional melancholy. Tell us about this disease. 96.