Fluoxetine

1) Mood Disorders a) Anxiety i) Generalized Anxiety Disorder (1) DSM-V Diagnostic Criteria (a) Excessive anxiety/worry occurring more days than not for ≥ 6 months, about a number of events or activities (b) Difficult to control the worry (c) Anxiety & worry are associated with ≥ 3 during the past 6 months (i) Restlessness (ii) Easily fatigued (iii) Difficulty concentrating (iv) Irritability (v) Muscle tension (vi) Sleep disturbance (d) Sx cause clinically significant distress or impairment…

There are some drugs that people use to take it to treat anxiety like Benzodiazepines, Neurotransmitter, and Fluoxetine. These kinds of drugs can calm, relax muscles, and help a person to sleepy well (Zak Fallows, 2016). However, people have to be carful when the take drugs that make them feel calm because they will be addicted over time and they will not be able…

Fluoxetine is an anti-depressant Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) drug, which selectively inhibits the reuptake of serotonin by blocking the serotonin reuptake pump on presynaptic neuronal membranes (Drugbank.ca, 2013b). The effects of this are…

OCD Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a symptomatically diverse condition, in which numerous kinds of obsessions and compulsions exist. Obsessions have four essential features: repeated and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that is experienced as intrusive and cause anxiety. However, research indicates that certain obsessions and compulsions tend to co-occur to form five main dimensions: obsession about being responsible for causing or failing to prevent harm; symmetry obsession, and…

of suicide, and aches or pains. The symptoms may differ depending on the the stage of the illness. Medication can be taken for depression. SSRIs (Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) are standard drugs for depression, they include sertraline, fluoxetine, citalopram, escitalopram, paroxetine, fluvoxamine, and trazodone. They also cause fewer side effects. Those side effects are nausea, trouble sleeping, nervousness, tremors, and sexual…

AMPHETAMINE WITHDRAWAL Overview The repeated use of amphetamines will cause psychological AND physical dependence that may also result in withdrawal when the medicine aren't any longer being used. According to the United States National Library of medicine, once use of amphetamines suddenly stops, withdrawal symptoms quickly set in inflicting the brain and also the body to travel through a series of uncomfortable, not, therefore pleasure some reactions both psychologically and physically.…

1. John’s mental illness led him to change his perspective of himself. We see that he becomes very pessimistic, compulsive, and constantly analyzing his relationship with his girlfriend thinking that she was bored with him. We also saw that he spent a lot of his time focusing on what he had done wrong in his life. Because of his mental illness, John was held behind while his friends all graduated college and moved on so he felt lonely and isolated and his problems came back and he went into…

• SSRI’s – Celexa (Citalopram), Lexapro (Escitalopram), Prozac (Fluoxetine), Paxil (Paroxetine) and Zoloft (Sertraline) and Luvox (Fluvoxamine). • SNRI’s – Effexor (Venlafaxine), Cymbalta (Duloxetine), Dalcipran (Ilnacipran) and Pristiq (Desvenlafaxine). • Benzodiazepines – Valium (Diazepam), Xanax (Alprazolam) • Phenothiazines…

Requeese wakes up to a faint sound emitting from his television. He grunts as his slim and translucent body rolls over to turn off the television, room is pitch black besides a tiny bit of the room that is lit up by his television. He struggles to find the remote with his tired, black baggy eyes as he feels like he is strapped to his bed, but after a few minutes he finally gets out of his bed and turns off the television. He slowly gets back into his bed and he is sleep deprived. He continuously…

Center for PTSD”).Some of these medications include selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)(“PTSD: National Center for PTSD”). These are a type of antidepressants that target the serotonin transmitters( “PTSD: National Center for PTSD” ). Fluoxetine, Sertraline, Paroxetine, and Citalopram are a few examples of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Serotonin - norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs ) are another type of drugs that are used to “treat depression and other common PTSD…