Eating Disorders: when nutrition and psychology come together

Many psychiatric/psychological disorders affect the patients’ metabolism even before treatment. For instance, Depression and Schizophrenia are a risk factor for Diabetes Mellitus. When pharmacotherapy is needed, the patients’ metabolism is made even worse. Diabetes, hyperlipidemias as well as other metabolic problems start to bombard the psychiatric patient.

Phobia of dogs

Cynophobia is the irrational fear from dogs. It is a type of Animal Phobia (Zoophobia). By definition, phobia is the irrational fear from something that usually isn’t a source of great danger. Even though phobia of dogs is by far less common than phobia of snakes and spiders, it still is very common in Lebanon.…