Avdeev D.A./Mental Diseases: Orthodox View / Library Golden-Ship.ru D.A. Avdeev Orthodox Encyclopedia "Home Doctor" in Questions and Answers

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.

Q: In recent years, more and more children and adolescents have experienced serious health problems, including mental health problems. Tell us about children's nervousness. 97. Question: What are the manifestations of children's neuroses? 98. Question: What other manifestations of children's nervousness require medical intervention? 99. Question: How does school neurosis proceed? 100.

Question: What can you advise in order to prevent children's nervousness? 101. Question: A sex education program is being introduced in Russian schools. How will this upbringing affect the psyche of children? 102. Question: I have heard that the subject of "valeology" is being introduced in educational institutions, which "does not disdain" occult psycho-techniques. Is this true? 103.

Question: Tell us about the origin of fears. 104. Question: Tell us about phobias. 105. Question: What does the word "insurance" mean? 106. Question: What is known about the spiritual nature of fears? 107. Question: I have heard that fear and vanity are somehow connected. Is this true? 108. Question: How to overcome fears? 109.

Question: I read about phobias of occult origin. Have you encountered similar cases? 110. Question: Tell us about children's fears. 111. Question: Is hysteria a mental illness or a character trait? 112. Question: How to react to hysterical behavior (in the event that there is a need to react to it)? 113.

Question: Problems of the modern family, fathers and sons. What do you think about this? 114. Question: Tell us about modern psychotherapy. 115. Question: How are psychology and psychotherapy related? 116. Question: What is Freud's psychoanalysis? 117. Question: What do the Holy Fathers say about hypnosis? 118. Question: How does hypnosis affect children? 119.

Question: Is it true that many Western psychologists were fond of occult experiences? 120. Question: How useful is autogenic training in order to be able to "relieve" tension and fall asleep quickly? 121. Question: In the polyclinic, I was offered to undergo a course of hypnosis treatment for nervous exhaustion and insomnia. I would like to know the opinion of the Orthodox Church about this method of psychic influence. 122.

Q: Are yoga and meditation beneficial? 123. Question: Tell us about the psychology of Dale Carnegie. Alcoholism and Drug Addiction 124. Question: Is drunkenness a sin or a disease? 125. Question: How does alcohol dependence develop? 126. Question: Tell us about alcoholic psychoses. 127. Question: Are there any peculiarities in the development of female alcoholism? 128. Question: "Adolescent alcoholism." Explain the features of its course. 129.