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Depression should be treated with antidepressants due to various ethical reasons that help basic mental and physical health. Depression is a serious mood disorder that enables one to easily feel sad, upset, and stressed out. Since depression is common today, more people rely on different types of treatment such as medications and drugs. “The World Health Organization reports that depression is the second leading cause of disability worldwide and, by 2020, is estimated to be the leading cause of…

There are habits and there are compulsions. There are thoughts and there are obsessions. The only difference between each two are the uncontrollable and volatile nature that is intrinsic to compulsions and obsessions. Together, they become the genetic condition of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. Imagine repeatedly checking if a door is locked nine times every night before bed. Imagine obsessing over a conversation that occurred many years ago that nobody remembers. Imagine never being…

Anxiety is the most common mental illness in the United States. As many as 40 million Americans, ages eighteen and older have an anxiety disorder. This is equal to about 18% of the total population of the U.S (Marvelous, 2013). For many people, anxiety has a huge effect on the way they live their daily lives. Many people just believe that anxiety is all made up and that people who have it re unreasonable. But in reality it is a very serious disorders that often has very serious effects. However,…

Ethics. It is how humans decide right from wrong, "usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues" (Velasquez). It can even be used to justify unethical actions. In the case of advertising and marketing, ethics plays a large role in creating the selling points to make a product or an idea profitable. As evident in Ethan Watters ' "Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan", ethics is the sugar coating many corporations use in their advertising and…

My long-term goals are to completely eradicate depression and anxiety disorders, the slightly smaller goal would be to research possible treatments and find one that is better than what we currently use for treatments. My goal career is to be a doctor, I am not sure if I want to be a psychologist or a neurologist yet but I am very determined to complete my long-term goal. The biggest challenge we face every day is a mental health crisis. It is an epidemic because it is ignored. Many insurances…

Postpartum depression (PPD) is defined as a mood disorder and a serious mental health concern that affects many women immediately or shortly after the birth of a child (NIMH, 2016). There is no single event or cause that brings on the effects of this depression. The mother has no influence over the introduction of this condition. With every woman having a different chemical structure, symptoms may appear or present differently. It affects 10-15% of new mothers but many of them remain…

In the world of psychiatry nearly all drugs in use today were created between 1950 and 1969. It’s hard to imagine with so many drug commercials on TV revealing new and groundbreaking products, that the same products being advertised today were actually created based on chemistry performed more than 60 years ago (Klein, p.259, 2014). The reason behind this is simple. The creation of new drugs based on finding new molecular entities is extremely costly. For the Federal Drug Administration (FDA)…

The purpose of this paper is to discuss similarities, differences, causes, and treatments of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). With OCD, a client must have recurrent thoughts, impulses that become an issue within their day to day life (Meyer & Weaver, 2013). Many times, these thoughts become obsessional behaviors, such as counting to ten before applying deodorant under each arm, or repetitively checking to make sure the front door is locked ten to…

Evidence Based Practice Review The article, “Adherence of antidepressants during pregnancy”, addresses medication management and compliance during pregnancy by comparing three methods: Pill count, Beliefs about Medication Questionnaire (BMQ) and Blood Level Monitoring (BLM) with the Medication Event Monitoring system (MEMS). The presented evidence submits that nonadherence with medication is a shared dilemma in pregnant women. Moreover, distinctive consideration is necessitated and utmost to…

Anxiety is the normal response but becomes a disorder when a person has ineffective coping mechanisms. (Morrison-Valfre) To be diagnosed with anxiety disorder worry or fear can not be temporary. Feelings can interfere with daily activities and relationships. Anxiety is when a person can fill worried, uneasy, and have severe nervousness. There are many symptoms of anxiety, which include excessive worrying, chest tightness, shaking, stomach pain, feeling you have to use the bathroom, insomnia,…