Activity
Very busy people who also conduct their work with caution and cunning are characterized as busy . Active behavior often meets with reservations, but can be an important motive for honorary positions . The associated noun activity belongs to the upscale colloquial language. Activity is not to be confused with 'pathological drive'. This also applies to social activity.
As Umtriebigkeit also pathological behaviors are called, which can result in mental disorders. Those affected are restless, busy, with no actual line of action, let themselves be carried away and are stimulated by various stimuli from the environment. One also speaks of urgent behavior , which in the geriatric psychiatric field is counted among the 20 most common abnormalities and behavioral disorders as a result of mental illness, described there as psychomotor restlessness.
Individual evidence
- ↑ A. Al-Shajlawi, Mathias Berger, Heath Hecht: Mental illness: hospital and therapy; with systematic consideration of reviews by the Cochrane collaboration and the Center for Reviews and Dissemination. 2., completely rework. and exp. Edition. Elsevier, Urban & Fischer-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-437-22480-8 , pp. 27 and 36. (online)
- ↑ as a diagnosis of a real disease, however, controversial (cf. neurasthenia ).
- ↑ Recommendations for performance standards in geriatric psychiatric care
