Christina Maragkaki, M. Psych.
Psychologist and Cognitive Behavioral Hypnotherapist 

Bipolar disorders are characterized by a serious of attacks of elation and depression, with periods of relative normality in between. There are two types of bipolar disorders, type I and type II that differ slightly in their symptomatology and commonality. Bipolar I disorder is characterized by full-blown manic and major depressive episodes and it is less common than bipolar II disorder, which is characterized by clear-cut hypomanic and major depressive episodes. It has been

Comorbidity is the ´´co-occurrence of two or more mental health problems´´ that due to alterations in ´´psychiatric nomenclature´´, it has ´´emerged as a major clinical, public health and research issue over the past few decades´´. According to Angold and colleagues, there are two types of comorbidity: homotypic and heterotypic comorbidity. The homotypic comorbidity refers to the mental illnesses that exist within the same diagnostic category. For example, cocaine and alcohol

There is a psychological disorder bound to the Malaysian culture, which is called Latah. Malaysian Latah is rarely rare in other parts of the world and occurs primarily in those of Malay descent, especially in women over 40 years old. The word Latah has its origins in Malay, and derives from the words of ticklish, nervous, creeping, and love madness. In mild cases, women typically exhibit involuntary utterances of incomprehensible, meaningless, or obscene words and/or gesturi

According to DSM-IV-TR, PTSD surfaces after a traumatic event that may have caused death or has threatened physically the person or people involved. The event is being re-experienced over and over again, either as a flashback or a dream, which causes difficulties concentrating or difficulties falling or staying asleep. Through the lenses of cognitive model, PTSD surfaces and is sustained due to the individual´s cognitive processes and autobiographical memories that views the