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special care nursery due to preterm and premature. Her treatment for PPD is consists of a combination of antidepressant medications and interpersonal psychotherapy. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as sertraline, paroxetine and citalopram are effective to treat depression, and yet the SSRIs can affect babies’ health while breastfeeding.…

Depression is a big worldwide problem, and in USA antidepressants are the third most common prescribed drug. It is a problem that appears to be on the rise. However, a lot about the function of antidepressants and why they seem to be working better in some individuals still remains unknown. Some data actually suggests that antidepressants works as good as taking a sugar pill. A meta-analysis (2010) were six separate studies were analysed to compare the effectiveness of antidepressants…

Anything to sleep, anything to eat. The pills never worked, and they too, were scattered across her room. A bottle of Xanax on her desk was tipped to its side. Medication organizers laid everywhere, full of Citalopram, Zoloft, Celexa. She had bottles upon bottles of herbs and supplements - such as Melatonin - stuck in the sheets and hidden under her bed. Her last bottle of Ambien lays in her hand. Luna’s body is in a chair, lying on her desk. Her head is on…

One fifth of America’s population suffers from some form of anxiety disorder. (Stossel 1) Doctors recommend medication such as Citalopram, Xanax, and Prozac. According to doctors interviewed in Understanding Anxiety, most doctors who diagnose an anxiety disorder don’t know exactly what anxiety is. Medication has major side effects, and typically those side effects are worse than the anxiety the medication is meant to cure. However, alternative practices for coping and curing anxiety are becoming…

Depression, formally known as melancholia, has been around since the seventeenth century. For as long as patients have been diagnosed with depression, it has been a genuine dispute. The nine types of this disease include: major, bipolar, persistent, seasonal, psychotic, postpartum, premenstrual, situational, and atypical depression. Depression is a very common disease that affects several people throughout our world today. Sometimes it is hard to decipher if someone is depressed. The person…

The diagnostic criteria for OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) includes recurring and unwanted thoughts & urges which are hard to suppress and may cause discomfort or anxiety; this is known as obsession. Subsequently, there are compulsions, repetitive behaviors and actions performed by a person in a response to an obsession or an unrealistic belief it will prevent a horrific event or sooth anxiety. In order to meet the criteria for OCD these obsessions, compulsions, or a combination of both…

What’s the Deal With Depression in the United States? At the start of this research paper I sought to answer the question: Why is the United States becoming more depressed? However, as i started to research, it didn’t take long before I decided to redirect my efforts. I chose to investigate a new question: What’s the deal with depression in the US? I found that the US isn't suffering from an epidemic of depression, but instead the disease itself is being over diagnosed as a whole. In a sense,…

Depression impacts people lives by having problems at home, stressing out of work, lots of money, divorces, bullying, relationships, school, dislike your body image, lots of attention, unhappy with money (rich people), social media, low self esteem, sexual abuse, or harass. Many people can’t control it because when you’re depressed it can feel like no one can’t really understand. You cry into tears and don’t know what to do anymore that’s when people think about suicide. You feel like it’s the…

which is the inability to control their impulses, antidepressant which is often given to OCD patients is found to be a temporary, but beneficial treatment for some diagnosed with trichotillomania. The medications, including antidepressants are (eg. citalopram, fluoxetine, and clomipramine), which have a minimal role in treatment. Many still opt for antidepressants though they play a minimal role in treatment, oppose to others like Cognitive Behavioral therapy because they receive faster…

Everyone feels anxious now and then. It’s a normal emotion. For example, you may feel nervous when you have a problem at work, before taking a test, or before making an important decision. What is anxiety disorder? Anxiety disorder is a phenomenon that commonly exists in the society, which is general term of various mental disorders. This kind of disease often has many negative influences on people of different ages and in different aspects, “Anxiety disorders are the most common mental…