Brain injury or brain damage is the pathological condition wherein brain cells are destroyed. This degeneration of brain cells may result from a variety of situations or conditions, diseases and injuries?usually to the head. These damages to the brain could be caused by a prolonged shortage of oxygen supplied to the brain, certain infections, trauma [...]
?I am a Carer?. There you go, ?straight off the bat? as they say, I write this article (the first in a series) in my role as a Primary Carer first and author second. At present I am the primary carer for my elderly mother who is suffering from the advance stages of Alzheimer?s disease. [...]
What is schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is an incurable mental illness. It is taken to be a psychotic disorder that makes the person unable to link thought, emotion and behavior. This leads to a withdrawal from his personal relationships and reality. In schizophrenia people undergo psychotic episodes. A psychotic episode is the term coined for unnecessary and unusual [...]
Many times, understanding the meaning of a word can give us great insight into the issue at hand.
What is agitation?
Extreme emotional disturbance. (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language)
A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquility; disturbance of mind that shows itself by physical excitement. (Webster?s Revised Unabridged Dictionary).
A mental state of extreme emotional [...]
