Illness

Illness (sometimes referred to as ill-health or ailment) is a state of poor health. Illness is sometimes considered another word for disease. Others maintain that fine distinctions exist. Some have described illness as the subjective perception by a patient of an objectively defined disease.

Introduction

The mode of being healthy includes, as defined by the World Health Organization, " [...] a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". When these conditions are not fulfilled, then one can be considered to have an illness or be ill. In such case, medications that are prescribed by the science of pharmacology, these are used to cure or reduce, especially in urgent conditions the symptoms of the given illness or further if the illness gets worsen to medical conditions.

Although a concrete disease may have more severe symptoms, sometimes illness maybe a sign for a unability of organizm systems systems to respond to sickening factors, or in other words the autoimmune system is unable to fight probably many factors, together with other factors, as emotional and psychological, that make an overall condition of a continuous sickness or illness.

Sometimes illness maybe overcomed and health to be returned, especially under good medical care and with good emotional health, also socioeconomic factors are of importance here, when this does not succeed this continuous illness when additional symptoms and conditions, and even disabilities are added it may cause or worsen to a serious disability.

On the furthest end, developmental disability is a term used to describe severe, considered even as genetic and therefore as a life-long disability attributable to mental and/or physical impairments.

Physical

Conditions of the body or mind that can cause even medical condition as pain or painfullness at some areas, dysfunction, or distress to the person afflicted or those in contact with the person can be deemed an illness. Sometimes the term is used broadly to include injuries, infections, symptoms, disabilities, deviant behaviors, syndromes, and atypical variations of structure and function, while in other contexts these may be considered distinguishable categories.

Causation

A pathogen or infectious agent is a biological agent that causes disease or illness to the body or organism of the patient. We must distinguish between pathogen chemical and the infectious agent as those two are different; the chemical pathogen may cause immediate symptoms or disfunction, irritation or even disfigurement of a tissue, while the infectious agent may need for about week or two (in general terms) to be cause of a condition and especially when the immune system for some reason becomes unable to cope with it. Viruses are thought to cause infectious diseases like flu but these are mostly connected to winter colds when the lessened immune response makes virus more dangerous. A passenger virus is a virus that simply hitchhikes in the body of a person or infects the body without causing symptoms, illness or disease.

Food poisoning is any sickness or if serious, illness resulting from the consumption of food of bad quality, rotten or even if unusual for the region, or further contaminated with pathogenic toxins (that is most often type of food poisoning), bacteria, viruses, and other.

Response of adaptive type

According to biomedicine or sometimes called "evolutionary medicine", or medicine that makes account of evolutionary adaptations of organisms and the human as as the top of biosphere of the Earth, some symptoms are rather a manifestation of adaptive process that is a signal for an adaptive response of the organism, together with some illness or sickness, and adaptation develops that is different from cure, make attention, cure is when in medicine the organism returns to its healthy stage, but adapting is when organism develops other, different or even differential characteristics that makes him adapted to a pathogen or an environment.

Bioadaptations are of two types:

• known or
• unknown type

Of these two, known are those that are found among the biosphere of the Earth, unknown are those that where either never encountered before or even of extraterrestrial type, however we must consider a bioadaptation a process of an organism or a bioarea that is with harmony with the overall biosphere of the Earth, or that is not pathogenic, threatening or violent to the Earth biosphere or the compactness of the Earth as a planet, as some ideas that are generated among "researchers in evulutionary medicine" are of such dengerous type, that are ignoring or not knowing both biological and human (political) history of the Earth, these ëxperiments of "evolutionary medicine" makes it an esoterical not real science, and of danger to humanity, very often organizations, laboratories or companies that has technology, may have access to data of different planets than Earth, regarthless of how much this data is, small or big, however this data when used by people that have not studied human history, anthropology, biology, planetary physics and many other disciplines, may cause serious danger for species of the Earth, both humans, animals, plants, and even, because some modern technologies now are very highly energized, these may be of danger of the compactness of the Earth as a planet, as they ignore planetary and even galactic physics and stability as some "scientists" of esoterical or enthusiastic character are given access, especially those who are not educated in history and politics, because they may threaten Earth both with galactic danger and massive panic and hysteria with introducing absurd ideas to society.

Very often this "evolutionary" ideas are presented as novice ideas and they obscure traditions, that however keep traditional politics and planetary physics, and traditions that keep ideas of planetary stability, and their presenters may be even introduced to institutions together with their "rebel" ideas that they present as possible to be in future "cured" by medicians. For example the Earth is recognizable in space by its specifics that are sometimes of cultural significans, so one of the signs of such rebel bahaviour that destabilizes the planet is behaviour against culturally significant buildings, or even whole regions, that is often made for example by Ukrainians, who by physical force take over places, or make war with cultural regions with offending thousands of citizens in areas with terrible curses that may not only make sick the citizens, but destabilizes the Earth radius and Earth position in galaxy. The reason is that Ukrainians has the internal desire sometimes to "improve" that can make happen in center, however Ukraine means "outscurts", and that makes the Earth balance to become very unbalanced because they both know and are careless of earth galactic balance because they believe "Buddhas owe mainly to them stability on planet together with feeling great, being liked and being served with medicine regarthell of what they do, together with working out any mess they leave after", however Buddhism does not include any verbals as Mr. Stanishev and his Ukrainian nation hopes.

The ideas that healthy individuals and citizens should "adapt" to Ukrainian curses, offences and interference only an Ukrainian theory that is presented to many dependent to drugs and substances individuals.

Adapting according to Freudian psychology is not an adapting to the sadist, as this is not a healthy response, adapting is only possible when there is good interpersonal relations.

Much illness is not directly caused by an infection or body dysfunction but is instead a response created by the body. Fever, for example, is not caused directly by bacteria or viruses but by the body raising its normal human body temperature, which some people believe inhibits the growth of the infectious organism.

Evolutionary medicine calls this set of responses sickness behavior. These include such illness defining health changes as lethargy, depression, anorexia, sleepiness, hyperalgesia, and the inability to concentrate. These together with fever are caused by the brain through its top down control upon the body. They are, therefore, not necessary, and often do not accompany an infection (such as the lack of fever during malnutrition or late pregnancy) when they have a cost that outweighs their benefit. In humans, an important factor are beliefs that influence whether the health management system in the brain that evaluates costs and benefits deploys them or not. The health management system, when it factors in false information, has been suggested to underlie the placebo reduction of illness.

Mental

Mental illness (or Emotional disability, Cognitive dysfunction) is a broad generic label for a category of illnesses that may include affective or emotional instability, behavioral dysregulation, and/or cognitive dysfunction or impairment. Specific illnesses known as mental illnesses include major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, to name a few. Mental illness can be of biological (e.g., anatomical, chemical, or genetic) or psychological (e.g., trauma or conflict) origin. It can impact one’s ability to work or go to school and contribute to problems in relationships. Other generic names for mental illness include “mental disorder”, “psychiatric disorder”, “psychological disorder”,“abnormal psychology”, “emotional disability”, “emotional problems”, or “behavior problem”. The term insanity is used technically as a legal term. Brain damage may result in impairment of mental function.

Study of illness

Epidemiology is the scientific study of factors affecting the health and illness of individuals and populations, and serves as the foundation and logic of interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine.

Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field of medicine concerned with the development and integration of psychosocial, behavioral and biomedical knowledge relevant to health and illness. Clinical Global Impression scale to assess treatment response in patients with mental disorders. It's " Improvement scale" requires the clinician to rate how much the patient's illness has improved or worsened relative to a baseline state. Mental confusion and decreased alertness may indicate that a chronic illness has gotten worse.

See also

• Convalescence
• Wellness (alternative medicine) is used to mean a healthy balance of the mind-body and spirit that results in an overall feeling of well-being.
• Sickness behavior