Antidepressant

Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder (bipolar affective disorder or manic depression) is a mental disorder that can cause people to have severe mood swings in matter of minutes. A person who is diagnosed with bipolar disorder can be happy one minute, and depressed the next. There are “highs” and “lows” that a person with a bipolar disorder can experience. The “low” is bipolar depression, but when you feel full of energy, you are at a high. You can feel these mood swings only a couple of times a…

Lamictal (lamotrigine) is an anti-epileptic medication, also called an anticonvulsant.It is used either alone or in combination with other medications to treat epileptic seizures in adults and children. This drug is also used to delay mood episodes in adults with bipolar disorder (manic depression). Precautions: You should not take this drug if you are allergic to lamotrigine. To make sure you can safely take Lamictal, tell your doctor if you have any of these other conditions: * kidney or…

use of antidepressants. However, there has been a large dispute over the use of antidepressants, especially in young children and adolescents. Antidepressants are used to balance the chemicals in your brain; Many people believe that antidepressants should not be prescribed to children and adolescents, because they are too young and the effects that the medication has on them could negatively affect them not only now, but later in life.…

The use of Antidepressant has greatly expanded in the previous years, one research shows that 1 out of 10 US adolescents and adults use these treatment. Percentage of the use of antidepressant may be even bigger among patients who goes through cosmetic plastic surgery, or patients with breast cancer undergoing breast restoration. While plastic surgeons are attentive for the use of treatment that has the potential to a heightened complications, such as blood thinners, they are naturally not…

prescribed antidepressants because they do not want to be labeled as “crazy.” People do not want to be labeled in such a way that will follow them the rest of their lives because in doing so they must admit to themselves that they have a problem that is not physical and that they can’t solve themselves by “snapping” out of it. All of this can be quite trying for the patient and can even make some of the symptoms worse besides there are also many side effects associated with taking an…

reproduced in the brain or not being able to release the chemical causes the brain to be unstable. This inevitably makes the body unstable and unable to help itself or identify mistake in the brain to correct it. But with the help and use of different antidepressants, serotonin is allowed to be released freely within the brain without any blockage. This keeps the signals and messages from all parts of the brain working together as one unit to complete functions in the brain for everyday life. In…

"Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy compared with maintenance antidepressant treatment in the prevention of depressive relapse or recurrence (PREVENT): a randomised controlled trial." The Lancet (2015). Based on a previous pilot study, a randomised controlled trial which compared the clinical efficacy and cost effectiveness of MBCT-TS with is maintenance antidepressants (m-ADM) was conducted in the goal of preventing relapse or recurrence of depression.…

of treatment for people struggling with depression. Medication is another form of treatment for the depressed, it is easy for the patient to become addicted. Once the depressed are done taking their medication they may not want to quit. Their antidepressants made them feel better so once the medicine is gone they may begin to feel empty again or as if they are missing something, Depression is more than just a sad mood. Almost 20% of Americans who suffer from depression become addicted to their…

The issue of overprescribing antidepressants to teens has been a growing problem throughout the decades. In research done by Harvard it is estimated that one in ten Americans takes some form of a depressant (Wehrwein). The research also states that less than one third of those who take an antidepressant have been through therapy with a licensed psychiatrist (Wehrwein). “The rate of antidepressant use in this country among teens and adults (people ages 12 and older) increased by almost 400%…

readily prescribe antidepressants. However, studies suggest that antidepressants are only moderately effective, especially during the first six to eight weeks of use. Some in the psychiatric field believe that antidepressants only have a moderate to low ability to fight off depression. Medication Management Antidepressants are the front line of defense in the treatment of bi-polar disorder, clinical depression and many anxiety disorders. However, doctors often use antidepressants to replace…