We can conclude that religious views have an influence on sexual functioning and sexual self-perception of patients suffering from depression and schizophrenia and also healthy individuals. Thus, further research on a bigger sample of participants--not only of those religious denominations covered in this research, but also of those that are less present in our society and of other mental health disorders and illnesses--is needed.
We can conclude that patients suffering from schizophrenia or depression differ from healthy individuals in all of the aspects of sexual self-perception.
Morgellons disease is a condition sometimes referred to as unexplained dermopathy. It appeared about a decade ago, although a disease with roughly similar features and symptoms was noted at the beginning of the 17th century, along with its name - “morgellons”. It is characterized by a number of different skin symptoms, including crawling, biting and stinging sensations, persistent skin lesions, finding fibers on or under the skin, but also cognitive defects, behavioral changes, tiredness and etc. Nowadays most physicians consider Morgellons disease to be just a new name for a well known medical condition, delusional parasitosis.We will present the case of a 49 year old female patient who was psychiatrically treated for two years for the symptoms of depression and underlying personality disorder. During the last five months she verbalized and described symptoms observed with Morgellons disease, although she had no prior knowledge of the disease itself.
The research was conducted at the Psychiatry Clinic of the Rijeka Clinical Hospital Center with the purpose of determining the impact of the new Law on the Protection of Persons with Mental Disorders (LPPMD) on the frequency of involuntary hospitalization. It covered two investigated periods. The first investigated period was the period of application of the old LPPMD from January 1 st 2012 to December 31 st 2014. The Second Investigated Period was the period of application of the New LPPMD from January 1 st 2015 to December 31 st 2017. In addition to comparing the frequency of involuntary hospitalization, the study includes diagnostic criteria, sociodemographic data, as well as means of arrival to the Clinic (police escort, ambulance, family) and the applied means of separation and restrictions. For the purposes of research, data from the Protocol on Involuntary Hospitalization, the History of Disease and the Integrated Hospital Information System were used. Analysis of the obtained results showed that there is no statistically significant difference in the frequency of involuntary hospitalization between the old and new LPPMD. However, observing the examined periods, we have noticed the tendency of increased frequency of involuntary hospitalization according to the new LPPMD. The obtained results of the research indicate that the majority of involuntarily hospitalized patients are male, 46.6 (SD 13.9) years old, unmarried, with completed high school education, unemployed, diagnosed with F20-F29 -schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders and F10-F19 -mental and behavioral disorders due to use of psychoactive substances involuntarily hospitalized and escorted by the police, with application of some means of separation and restriction.
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