Antidepressant

Carey Counseling Center offers medication management, therapy and case management as its basic mental health services. One important aspect of mental health with the most improvement over the past few decades is medications used to treat mental health symptoms. Abilify (aripiprazole) is one of the newest a-typical anti-psychotic medications that help block dopamine receptors shown to influence the symptomology of such things as hallucinations, delusions and thought distortion in…

Dronaderone is the analogue of amiodarone which is used for patients with persistent or paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. It is used for the maintenance of sinus rhythm and persistent or paroxysmal atrial flutter who are in sinus rhythm or undergoing cardioversion after initiation of the drug. Dronaderone (Multaq) is sodium and potassium ion channels blocker, like amiodarone. It is also an alpha and beta adrenergic receptor antagonist. Dronaderone is a benzo furan derivative like amiodarone, with…

Demographics are important when researching mental illnesses in individuals. These traits help professionals like epidemiologists gather data that can help decide what types of people could potentially become mentally ill. Epidemiologists will obtain demographics for surveying purposes. Information such as age, race, and marital status, to name a few, gives reliability in one’s study. (Cockerham 2014) Biological differences that men and women have, can contribute to mental illness. Women for…

Introduction Headaches are pain that is found any region of the head. Nerves, blood vessels and muscles found in the head and neck area are all involved in the causes of headaches; usually over activity of these structures and chemical actions can all be sources of why the condition exists. Primary headaches are symptoms that are not caused by another ailment. They can be categorized into migraines, tension headaches, and cluster headaches. A very common type of head ache is tension headaches…

SUNA, otherwise known as "Short-lasting Unilateral Neuralgiform Headache Attacks", is often common in men after the age of 50 years old. This disorder is marked by stabs of moderate to severe throbbing, burning, or piercing pain usually surrounding one side of the head, located explicitly around the eye or temple. The stabbing pain usually peaks through within seconds of the onset and may follow a pattern of increasing and decreasing pain intensity. The SUNA Attacks can usually last up to 4-5…

“Which of my feelings are real? Jamison asked. “Which of the me’s is me”. (Jamison 68). Antidepressants are presumed to reduce depressive symptoms by alternating ones personality or emotions “generative brain system”- Stanford. It often is said that depression results from a chemical imbalance, but the disease is way more complex. Some researchers presume that depression is not solely bought on by a little chemical imbalance, but by factors, such as mood regulations, a stressful life, medication…

Largely today, the treatment of depression in the United States has become synonymous with taking a pill in order to make all of your troubles go away. As such, the prescribing of anti-depressant medications to patients with depression and other psychiatric disorders by doctors has become a priority to the pharmaceutical industry. Treating depression like one would with a headache has become incredibly lucrative to doctors, patients, and pharmaceutical companies. Evident through the robust…

1. After reading the Julia’s vignette, I have concluded that she meets the diagnostic criteria for Bipolar I. In order to be diagnosed with Bipolar I, an individual must meet the criteria for one manic episode as well as not being better explained by another mental disorder (e.g., schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder, etc.). The symptoms that I have factored into the diagnosis of a Major Depressive Episode (MDE) are uncontrollable crying, guilt, overeating, exhaustion,…

Given the effectiveness of anti-depressants, I would advocate for medical treatment to anyone suffering from mood disorders. Anti-depressants can increase suicidal thoughts, but in such a small amount of 1 in 1000 and 1 in 3000 for suicide. If it increases suicidal thoughts, the medication can simply not be the best fit for you. There are a wide variety of anti-depressants that can be used to treat a patient, but people are not all the same. One medication might work for one patient and another…

First, changing levels of hormones causes migraine such as menstrual migraine. According to Marie-Germaine Bousser, MD (2004), “The hormonal influence might be different on migraine without aura and on migraine with aura; there is good evidence for an association between estrogen withdrawal and attacks of migraine without aura but only weak evidence for an association between high estrogen states and attacks of migraine with aura”. To solve the problem, consumption the food that contains high…