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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 January 2025. Claimed sensitivity to electromagnetic fields This article is about a pseudomedical diagnosis. For the recognized effects of electromagnetic radiation on human health, see Electromagnetic radiation and health. Electromagnetic hypersensitivity Idiopathic environmental intolerance ...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or electroshock therapy (EST) is a psychiatric treatment during which a generalized seizure (without muscular convulsions) is electrically induced to manage refractory mental disorders. [1]
An electrical injury (electric injury) or electrical shock (electric shock) is damage sustained to the skin or internal organs on direct contact with an electric current. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The injury depends on the density of the current , tissue resistance and duration of contact. [ 4 ]
Chronic anxiety is often associated with dysesthesia due to extreme stress. [2] Patients with this anxiety may experience numbness or tingling in the face. In one study, those patients that were examined psychologically had symptoms of anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, or somatic symptom disorder. [3]
Approximately 15–50% of people who suddenly stop an antidepressant develop antidepressant discontinuation syndrome. [7] [2] [3] [4] The condition is generally not serious, [2] though about half of people with symptoms describe them as severe. [4] Many restart antidepressants due to the severity of the symptoms. [4]
Hans Selye was the first to coin the term "general adaptation syndrome" to suggest that stress-induced physiological responses proceed through the stages of alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. [ 7 ] The sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system gives rise to a specific set of physiological responses to physical or psychological stress.
Electronarcosis, also called electric stunning or electrostunning, is a profound stupor produced by passing an electric current through the brain. [1] Electronarcosis may be used as a form of electrotherapy in treating certain mental illnesses in humans, [ 2 ] or may be used to render livestock unconscious prior to slaughter .
People with general anxiety disorder are highly sensitive to external anxiety triggering stimuli and deal with exposure to these triggers through neurotic thoughts. [20] People with GAD are biased to perceive sensory stimuli as negative or threatening and this bias feeds into negative thought processes which further exacerbate feelings of worry ...