If I'm feeling generous masochistic, tomorrow you guys will have organic mental disorders.

Psychotic Syndromes
Humour Disorders
Anxiety, Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders

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Since this is a shortie, I'll write about eating disorders as a follow-up.

Psychotic Syndromes
Humour Disorders
Anxiety, Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders
Personality Disorders

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Have two celebratory beats from my past (old but gold), since I'm talking with Owlor about music!

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Well, dang. After this I'm gonna do some serious studying. And yes, we are going to talk about dissociative identity disorder here. Hold on to your seats and buckle your pants!

Hey, did you know that Brazil is the only country in the world that changed the name leprosy to hanseniasis in order to fight back the social stigma that this condition carries?

Psychotic Syndromes

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Who hasn't asked this question before? I mean, it's not like we medical doctors actually study or anything, right? We just like to do what we want and roll with it. If someone bothers to ask a question, we can just slap them in the face and scream "ARE YOU DOUBTING SCIENCE?!"

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Well, that is really a tricky question. First, we'd have to stipulate some 'rules' (more like, ideal conditions) for our little experiment to go nicely:
1) Your body is now completely sterile. That's right, no more bacteria colonizing your skin, gastrointestinal tract and your upper airways. Since your body has 10 times more bacteria than it has cells, you'd weigh about 1-3% less than you do now. [1]

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Only Comma-Kazie (and Owlor, when I first showed that to him) expressed his real delight, interest and willingness to actually use this (and maybe research further) when I talked about psychotic syndromes. That is good; if at least one person was interested, my mission was accomplished.

If you want to know more, try getting Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry.

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Alright all you wannabe psychopathology writers, time to get schooled!

Psychotic Syndromes
Humour Disorders
Anxiety, Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders
Personality Disorders

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First of all, I'd like to apologize for spamming all of you with this (and the previous) blog posts. Yeah, they cover different topics... but I'm not sure if I should've merged them together before writing that one. Now's too late, though. Apologies.

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