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Benzodiazepines and barbiturates are both used in the treatment of anxiety. However, benzodiazepines are preferred over barbiturates for several reasons. Both drugs act on the GABA-A receptor, which is an ionotropic receptor with a chloride channel, by enhancing the effect of the GABA neurotransmitter. The latter usually binds to the receptor and opens the chloride channel, allowing for the entrance of chloride and causing the hyperpolarization of the cell and therefore its inhibition.…

Anxiety is a mental health disorder that is characterized by worry, and fear. Anxiety and apprehension is a normal human response to stressful situations. Although everyone experiences anxiety at one point or another, it’s a problem when it becomes excessive. Obsessive Compulsive disorder and panic attacks can result from extreme anxiety. Obsessive compulsive disorder, also known as OCD, is when excessive anxiety and thoughts lead to behaviors that are repetitive. When most people hear OCD, they…

Lady Macbeth described symptoms that are associated with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). People with OCD are diagnosed when the obsessions and/or compulsions disrupt their everyday lives for more than an hour per day or cause substantial distress or impairment (Beidel, Frueh, & Hersen, 2014). If we broke down the diagnosis, obsessions are defined as recurring thoughts, urges, or images that you try to suppress, and compulsions are repetitive actions that people may engage in to avoid or…

A Figure Of OCD In The Things They Carried, O'Brien illustrates obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) through the story of lieutenant Jimmy Cross and Martha. In modern medicine, physiologists define OCD as obsessive and/or compulsive behaviors significantly interfering with a person's daily life; in reality a person spends so much time on their obsessions or compulsions that they neglect their daily life and responsibilities. Also, psychologists assert that people with OCD know that their thoughts…

Through my own research after my diagnosis, I have since learned that there are five subsets of OCD, each one vastly different from the other; the only thing that connects the five groups together is that they both involve obsessive thoughts that are often exhibited in behaviors that are known as rituals. Contamination OCD involves obsessive thoughts about germs which leads to rituals of cleaning (Kelly 4). Symmetry OCD involves obsessive thoughts about counting and organization which leads to…

OCD What is OCD? Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental health disorder that affects people of all ages and walks of life, and occurs when a person gets caught in a cycle of obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions are unwanted, intrusive thoughts, images or urges that trigger intensely distressing feelings. Compulsions are behaviors an individual engages in to attempt to get rid of the obsessions and/or decrease his or her distress. Most people have obsessive thoughts and/or compulsive…

Introduction Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Children today are being diagnosed with disorders generally associated with adults. One of these disorders is also called OCD. OCD is found in many children today. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, also called OCD is found in many children today. OCD is an anxiety disorder where people have repetitive thoughts (obsessions) which lead them to act on their feelings (compulsions). Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a treatable disorder. It is a type of…

According to the National Institute of Mental Health,” About 40 million adults between the ages of 18 to 54 suffer from anxiety in the United States.” In fact, anxiety is one of the most common psychiatric disorders today with a wide range of treatment options. Currently, many people that suffer from anxiety aren’t being treated for it and often choose to use a substance such as marijuana in lieu of other medication. Substances like marijuana provide an alternative way to cope with mental…

Depression is a very serious problem that many people suffer from, with me sadly being one of them. I thought of one reliable and useful solution for my depression, the solution is not costly and I have experienced it before, with the solution being therapy. Therapy is not that costly and, having done it before I know it has helped in the past. My depression is a little odd as I have had it sense I was around five when something happened to me that had scarred me for life. Almost…

The use of antidepressants, such as soma, is essential to life in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Anti-depressants and other “feel-good” drugs are becoming increasingly popular in the world. I believe that this continued increase in use, as well as lack of concern for actually treating the sick, may be leading the world to become rather brave and new. The widespread prescription of antidepressants is numbing society to the actual problems at hand, people are getting crazy. Society thinks it’s…