Psychiatric comics. Stories about people. Zadorozhnaya O.

psychiatry. This section of medicine to this day is shrouded in a halo of secrets and riddles, as for people far from science, so, sometimes for psychiatrists themselves. Since ancient times, mental disorders have been surrounded by myths and superstitions, and people who suffer from them were persecuted, then revered as saints. Fortunately, those times have long passed when mentally ill were kept on chains in conditions that are not different from prison. Modern psychiatry is more and more based on neuronas. From the middle of the 20th century, we have a powerful weapon in the fight against mental illness - drugs that allow you to influence nonsense, hallucinations, depression and many other conditions.

The book in the language of comics shows the stories of people - our contemporaries faced with mental disorders. The reader can look into the world of painful experiences of heroes, understand what is happening to them. The narrative of the book includes modern scientific descriptions of the psychic diseases of heroes presented in an easy understandable form.

At the end of the book, the reader and heroes find answers to the most important questions: what to do to a person who has encountered a mental disorder? How to react to his loved ones? And are there any ways to make the lives of such people again full?