Article Topic: Anorexia Nervosa Author: Ala’ Moh’d Al Barbarawi Editor: Ihda Mahmoud Bani Khalaf , Sadeen Eid Reviewer: Omar Sanduka Keywords: Psychiatry, Mental Illness, Eating disorders, Anorexia Nervosa. Overview Anorexia Nervosa is a serious mental disorder that can affect individuals of all ages, races, and genders. (1) It primarily affects young women in adolescence and can continue into adulthood. (2) Individuals suffering from this disorder have an intense fear of weight gain and a disturbed body image, which drives severe dietary restrictions or other abnormal weight loss behaviors such as purging or excessive physical activity. (1,4-6) Definition Anorexia nervosa […]

Topic: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Author: Ala’ Moh’d Al Barbarawi Scientific Editor: Ahda Jbarah Linguistic Editor: Aroob Awwad Awwad. (31)   Understanding PTSD Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has adopted multiple names throughout history, including ‘shell shock’ during the first world war, and ‘combat fatigue’ the WWII. However, PTSD isn’t only present in soldiers who fought during war. It is a psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have been through or witnessed a traumatic event which can be a natural disaster, a life-threatening accident, a terrorist act, war, combat, or rape. It can also happen to individuals who have been […]

Article Topic: Social Anxiety Disorder Author: Ala’ Moh’d Al Barbarawi Keywords: Psychiatry, Social Anxiety, Mental Illness, SAD Linguistic Editor: Aroob Awwad Awwad.   Introduction Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD), also referred to as social phobia, can be defined briefly as the intense fear of social situations in which the person worries excessively about being scrutinized or inspected closely by others, and fears or has anxiety about one or more social situations where they can be looked over by others. In children, this disorder may be overlooked by parents and mistaken for shyness. Epidemiology SAD is considered a common disorder with a […]