Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to P Pacan.
Trichotillomania is the recurrent pulling out of one's own hair, which results in noticeable hair loss, classified in DSM IV and ICD 10 as an impulse control disorder. Trichotillomania can occur as an isolated symptom or may be associated with affective disorders, schizophrenia, substance abuse, borderline personality, obsessive-compulsive disorder. Its onset is usually in childhood and females are more affected than males.
Depression is more widespread than hypertension. Nevertheless, physicians specialized in family medicine did not have knowledge necessary to diagnose and treat depression and anxiety disorders. Only six persons out of fifty five who filled in the questionnaire could recognize depression correctly (ICD-10 criteria). Doctors knew antidepressant drugs, but they did not know therapeutic doses. We can try to explain this situation through doctor's pre and postgraduate education.