...Many people do not realize what effects your body can get when it does not have the proper physical needs to stay strong and healthy. One of the effects is a rheumatic syndrome called fibromyalgia, also known as Fibrositis and Myofasical pain syndrome. This syndrome is diagnosed with a history of at least three months of widespread pain and tenderness in eleven to eighteen of tender-point sites. These points include: the neck, the shoulders, the chest, the rib cage, the lower back, the thighs, the knees, the arms (mainly the elbows), and the buttocks. The pain in these areas is defined as an overwhelming characteristic of fibromyalgia and is long standing. Fibromyalgia affects any age group but commonly in the age range of 60 years old if not older. Women are commonly affected by fibromyalgia, than men. More than 3 million United States cases per year. Medically manageable treatment can help. Requires a medical diagnosis, hardly requires lab tests or imaging. Chronic, and can last for years. Some symptoms people may experience pain in the muscles, elbow, back, neck, or abdomen, can occur at night, can be chronic, throbbing, sharp, or diffuse, sever. Sleep disturbances, difficult falling asleep, or sleepiness. Sensitive to pain, pins, and needles. It’s a wide spread muscle pain and tenderness. Muscular tenderness, muscular spasms, or delayed onset muscle soreness. You may also experience a tingling in your hands and be sensitive to coldness. It can affect your stomach and you...
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...event. PTSD is called post-traumatic stress disorder. This anxiety disorder can occur at any point in your life even your childhood. Most people who are enlisted in the military usually suffer from this disorder after being deployed to another country. The symptoms vary from person to person. The symptoms could include flashbacks, emotional feeling and avoidance of the traumatic event. PTSD cause is unknown as of now but it is a psychological, genetic, physical, and social factors that are involved. There are risk factors that may help a person to get PTSD. There are different treatments for PSTD. The treatments that are used for PTSD are using different strategies, medications and or psychotherapy. Medication could cause different side effects such as headaches or sexual problems. Group therapy is the most effective because people can relate to what you are going through. Post-traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder that occurs after being exposed to a terrifying event or when severe harm or after being threatened. Post-traumatic stress disorder is also known PTSD. Events that may trigger this disorder may come from violent personal assaults, natural or unnatural disasters, accidents, or military combat. Most that's in the military that serve time in another country, usually, suffer from this disorder. Psychology today states that it is 7.7 million adults that are affected by this disorder. This disorder can occur at any age even childhood. This anxiety disorder...
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...using gelatin. In 1923, the company marked another success by introducing Iletin that was used in improving diabetes. This project was the first largest insulin production that the company together with the University of Toronto invented. All through the 1950’s, various advancements were introduced such as the invention of the oral penicillin and the antibiotic known as Erythromycin. Prozac was produced in 1988 and latter succeeded in 1990. In 2000, the drug Zyprexa was utilized in the treatment of schizophrenia and later, the drug Gemzer was introduced for chemotherapy. Before Prozac the treatment available was Tofranil also known as tricycle antidepressants (TCA’s) and was for the treatment of depression. However, some of the side effects of this drug include blurred vision, mouth dryness, cardiac complications and when overdoses or misused could be highly lethal. Prozac was later launched in 1988 and was a selective serotonin inhibitor uptake. The Prozac was much safer than TCA because of its minimal side...
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...include: Loss of interest in normal daily activities Feeling sad or down Feeling hopeless Crying spells for no apparent reason Problems sleeping Trouble focusing or concentrating Difficulty making decisions Unintentional weight gain or loss Irritability Restlessness Being easily annoyed Feeling fatigued or weak Feeling worthless Loss of interest in sex Thoughts of suicide or suicidal behavior Unexplained physical problems, such as back pain or headaches Depression symptoms can vary greatly because different people experience depression in different ways. A 25-year-old man with depression may not have the same symptoms as a 70-year-old man, for instance. For some people, depression symptoms are so severe that it's obvious something isn't right. Others may feel...
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...Several trials are done and information of the results is shared behind closed door while people are made to make a choice based on what the company says rather than the result of the study. In the essay titled “Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science” David H. Freedman quotes Ioannidis who states, “It’s like an epidemic, in the sense that they’re infected with these wrong ideas, and they’re spreading it to other researchers through journals.” The idea of being wrong seems to be a problem that many scientists aren’t willing to admit for various reasons. They would rather disguise it as something of a success when in reality it’s not. Not many people in the health industry are willing to step up and make a change to guide their patients in a healthy directions which gives them the opportunity to use medications less and make better health choices on their wellbeing. Doctors should have a better route for their patients such as changing their lifestyles or eating other variety of nutritional foods before reaching for a paper to prescribe medications. This is one possible solution to a problem that continues to plague and jeopardize the health of many people who seek...
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...” Borderline Personality Disorder is a condition characterized by impulsive actions, rapidly shifting moods, and chaotic relationships, most commonly found in women. The individual usually goes from one emotional crisis to another making it difficult to form close connections with people. Often there is dependency, separation anxiety, unstable self-image, chronic feelings of emptiness, and threats of self-harm such as suicide or self-mutilation. In the movie “Girl, Interrupted”, main character Susanna Kaysen is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. Initially in denial of her disorder and suicide attempt upon entry to the psychiatric institution Claymoore, she learns to cope with her disorder, accept who she is, and learns to make meaningful lasting friendships. In order to be diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, impairments of personality functioning (within self and interpersonal) must be present as well as pathological personality traits. With this disorder, the person can often function "normally" in society, but the internal emotional pain can be unbearable. People suffering with this disorder can be very moody, can have feelings of desperation, insecurity, and isolation. They tend to be impulsive and suffer from bouts of depression. They also tend to live recklessly and engage in self-damaging behavior. Those with BPD may hurt themselves as an outlet to dealing with their chronic feelings of emptiness and identity...
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...Loud Noises Just make it stop, please, let it stop. I'm spending every minute awake wishing I was asleep, and every minute asleep in complete terror. Every breath seems to drain more life from me than the last. I would take or do anything to make it stop. I would sell my soul to the devil himself if I could. I can't take this anymore, I'm giving up. I was never a normal child growing up. Well I was always told by my superiors that I wasn't a normal child. My parents always telling me how unruly of a child I was. I was described as a ball of hell fire, who spat at the rules like they didn't apply to me. I was diagnosed With every hyperactive disorder the doctors had, Bipolar, ADD, ADHD. I felt like I wasn't wanted by my family. It was emptying and caused me to lash out more. Instead of just giving me attention they just shoved medication onto me. When I wasn't drugged out I was making sure my hatred for my parents was well heard. Some of the medication I was on made me feel like I was outside of my body watching someone else live my life. I never interacted with other children because my intelligence dwindled. I was always in a fog, It took more energy to communicate with others than any kid should have to. It was like trying to swim through high tide just trying to talk to others. My mind strained, my muscles ached, all tastes and smells were dulled down. I stopped enjoying food and stopped eating. I lost interest in sports, especially since I could barely pull myself out...
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...I attended class at the downriver campus on Monday, October 8th 2012 to attend a lecture by Kathleen Brazzle. Ms. Brazzle lectured about medications and different psychological conditions. She spoke of both generic and first tier medications while describing different conditions such as: psychosis, delusions, thought disorders, depression and hallucination. Psychosis is a symptom of feature of mental illness typically characterized by radical changes in personality, impaired functioning and a distorted or non-existent sense of objective reality. The person suffering from psychosis typically has a loss of contact with reality; the condition of psychosis causes them to not see things realistically and thus distorting real life. The beliefs for them are not based on life or reality. They often struggle to think clearly and often lack insight about things. A person suffering from psychosis often does not realize that anything is wrong with them or simply disbelieves the truth about reality. Delusions are a false, fixed, odd or unusual belief that the person has. There are different types of delusions: delusions of paranoia, grandiose delusions, somatic delusions and psychotic delusions. Delusions are typically classified in two categories as primary and secondary. Hallucinations are a problem with sensory perception with the absence of an outside stimulus. Often hallucinations can be visual or auditory. Example of a visual hallucination would be seeing a person or...
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...known as panic attacks. Panic attacks are a form of anxiety, a common emotion. Anxiety occurs in all of us, and mild amounts, it is healthy. For some, however, anxiety can take the ugly form of anxiety disorders. Because anxiety is so widespread, and potentially dangerous, it is important to understand what it is, how it affects us, and what we can do to cope with it. Anxiety can take many different levels of severity and emerge from many different emotions or attitudes. It can emerge from a fear of a future event, whether that event is real or perceived. Others may feel general uneasiness all the time. No matter what the trigger for anxiety, one detail is key. Anxiety is illogical. Yet, despite this fact, one of anxiety’s most severe effects is common. 1/3 of all 15-35 year olds have at least one panic attack in their lifetime (Hales, Hales 119). What exactly is a panic attack though? A panic attack is when an individual is overcome with a sudden and intense fear. It does not need a specific reason for appearing, and it triggers a severe physical reaction. Panic attacks are no joke, even if at one time people once...
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...3 March 2015 Informative Speech Outline Title: Informative Speech Main Idea: Suicides and the Military Thesis Statement: At the end of my informative speech, my audience will know more about the Military Suicide Issue and how the number of military or veterans deaths by suicide has been increasing at an alarming rate, the common misconceptions about the possible reasons why current and former military members are taking their own lives and finally what is being done to try and resolve this issue. I. Introduction a. Attention-getter: Across the US there’s thousands upon thousands of members of an exclusive club that nobody wanted to join. I know it was a group I never wanted to join. We are known as Suicide Survivors, we are the surviving family members of the military members and veterans who have taken their own lives and each day our group grows in size. In one collective voice we scream for answers to the seeming unanswerable question… Why? b. Preview: In 2012, TIME Magazine published an article titled “One a Day” referencing to the rate of active duty suicides. According to an article in the Government Executive the VA reports an average of 22 Veteran suicides per day. A look at some of the statistics and commonalities can help provide a clear idea of the contributing factors. II. Body c. Main Idea 1: Statistics: According to TIME Magazine since 2001 there have been more active duty deaths from Suicide than there have been due to overseas...
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...Eduardo Carrillo Expository Writing Alex Leslie “Narratives of Cultural Progress” Ethan Watters’ essay is not so much on depression but analyzing the distinctive differences between cultures. In the essay, we are introduced to a campaign held by western pharmaceutical companies like GlaxoSmithKline not just trying to open a new market for their drug but change the perception of another country on a subject. That subject being depression, conflicts arise on defining it. The narratives or theory of cultural progress is in a way subjective. The theory of one culture being more advanced, better, or years ahead of another have no base to stand on without realizing cultures themselves are indeed different to one another. GlaxoSmithKline, like many other drug companies, are confusing the idea of two cultures being incomparable to the thought of one being less than the other. This being said, what comes of companies using these narratives of culture progress? The danger of the narratives of cultural progress is the risk of our cultures misconception of illnesses being adopted by another culture we claim are behind their predetermined evolution. On one side of the coin you have the western pharmaceutical companies and on the other, countries like Japan. Depression can be defined and described differently by both sides but who is right? Should any of the two be right? US’s “depression” and Japan’s “utsubyo” mean similar things but are experienced differently by the population of...
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...PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS AND DISEASES BY: Vivian Alfonso PSY/240 Professor: Desra Hohlbein February 20, 2015 Abstract The biopsychology of Psychiatric disorders (disorders of psychological function sufficiently severe to require treatment). One of the main difficulties in studying or treating the psychiatric disorders is that they are difficult to diagnose. Because they cannot identify the specific brain pathology associated with various disorders, their diagnosis usually rests entirely on the patients symptoms. The diagnosis is guided by the DSM-IV-TR (the current edition of the Diagnostic and statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Associations. I will be discussing the following psychiatric disorders Schizophrenia, Anxiety Disorders, Affective (emotional) disorders, Anxiety Disorders and Tourette syndrome. These disorders are all very important and are treatable. Most people can live happy and healthy lives if treatments are followed by a doctor. The major difficulty in studying and treating schizophrenia is accurately defining it (Heinrichs, 2005; Kreuger & Markon, 2006). Its symptoms are complex and diverse; they overlap greatly with those of other psychiatric disorders and frequently change during the progression of the disorder. Also, various neurological disorders have complex partial epilepsy; have symptoms that might suggest a diagnosis of schizophrenia. In recognition of the fact that the current definition of schizophrenia likely...
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...Depression and Psychotropic Medication PD Psychopharmacology CHMC 640 Depression and Psychotropic Medication Depression is often defined as a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest that impacts the way a person thinks, acts, and feels and can have an impact on one’s physical and mental well-being. It is estimated that depression affects 1 out of 10 Americans and that 80% of people exhibiting symptoms re not receiving any form of treatment (http://www.healthline.com). Other statistics revealed that individuals exhibiting symptoms of depression are more likely to have a history of being obese, having heart disease, strokes, suffer from sleep disorders, have lower education, less access to medical care, are unemployed, and recently divorced. These biopsychosocial factors that lead to the onset of depression can also be impacted by such things as age, gender, and ethnicity. While such symptoms and factors of depression can be treated in many different ways, studies have proven that between 60-80% of all cases involving depression can successfully be treated by combining psychotherapy and pharmacological constructs (http://www.healthline.com), the latter which shall be explored in greater detail. History of Medication Although plant extracts such as opium, thorn apple St. Johns wort, Henbane, Indian hemp, deadly nightshade, hypericum oil, alcohol, caffeine, cannabis and other natural remedies have been used for past 3000 years treat...
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...Panic Disorder Back in the early 1990’s, I had it all: A loving wife, a coveted management job, a supportive network of friends and family. My wife and I would go out almost every night to trendy restaurants and dance clubs with friends. In my spare time, I would visit residents at the local senior center. It was a different story behind the scenes: Starting in my early twenties, I began to suffer mild panic attacks and unpleasant cycles of thought. I worried constantly that I was on the verge of being laid off work, or dying of cancer, or that my spouse was being unfaithful. My fears and panic attacks kept me at home afraid to go out in public and caused me to fight with my friends and family. The fiasco My first major anxiety attack occurred when I was going through a particularly stressful time at work. I started to have a panic attack. I was paralyzed with fear, I couldn’t catch my breath and I thought I was going to die. Although the episode lasted only a few minutes it seemed like an eternity. I was so embarrassed afterwards because I knew that my co-workers now knew something was wrong with me. It was the company nurse who sent me to the hospital emergency room with an imagined heart attack (where doctors unable to find anything sent me home). It was at this point I too thought there was something seriously wrong. I didn’t want to go back to work; I was afraid, I could have another attack and decided to go see if the doctor could help me. The Doctor visit I went...
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...make make comparisons between literature and the actual experience that my aunt had. In Summery, it appears that panic disorder is characterized by an experience of unable terror that can impair peoples life on many levels and can also cause additional problems such as other anxiety problems and even depression. During the conversations with my aunt, I asked her how she experienced her condition. She said "It started out as one panic attack and then it increased.". When I asked her how those attacks felt to her, she was not really able to describe them in detail. In fact, it was very hard for her to describe what had happened to her, altogether. However, she said " it's a totally experience of terror that I never felt before or after that. You have a lot of fear, and you have no idea from what, or where it's coming from". She remembered :"sometimes, it felt like something...
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