Conrad Smith

The most severe mental disorders start at a young age, said the host of the YouTube channel “Dr Gilev’s Psychiatry Video Blog”, psychiatrist Artem Gilev. He named the most dangerous age for mental health in a conversation with “Komsomolskaya Pravda”.

According to him, up to the age of 30, a person can manifest schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder (BAD). “There are practically no people over 40 who would be diagnosed with schizophrenia for the first time. In the 50s and 60s, not even close. So the peak of detection of the most serious mental illnesses is really at 16-17 or 25-30 years of age,” he clarified. The doctor added that this is explained by genetics and peculiarities of the mechanism of development of such diseases.

At an older age, he continued, there is a higher risk of neurodegenerative diseases – Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, vascular dementia. “But resistance to nervous, anxiety disorders depends largely on how many stresses a person has suffered. The more he has experienced them up to the current moment, the worse the prognosis. Alas, no habituation, adaptation is impossible,” Gilev pointed out.

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Famous American supermodel, actress, singer and businesswoman Beverly Johnson has revealed that she experienced anorexia and drug addiction at the beginning of her career. An interview with the 71-year-old star was published by Page Six.

Johnson was the first black model on the cover of Vogue, and her career peaked in the 1970s and 1980s. Back then, the model recalls, she used cocaine to stave off hunger and believed it wasn’t addictive. “I was eating two eggs and a bowl of brown rice a week. I would start shaking in the taxi and sometimes I would ask to slow down to buy myself a packet of M&M’s,” she said.

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Falls down stairs and impaired co-ordination of movement are early symptoms of dementia. These non-obvious signs of the disease were reported by the British dementia charity organisation Alzheimer Scotland, writes the Daily Express.

The organisation noted that dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are most commonly associated with memory loss, mental impairment and speech problems, but symptoms can vary depending on which part of the brain is affected. One of the lesser-known manifestations of the disease, experts said, is difficulty with mobility.

“A person with dementia may slip, trip, fall more often. You may notice that he or she shuffles when walking and does not lift his or her feet,” Alzheimer Scotland pointed out.

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