Paroxetine

to cognitive restructuring. People suffering from PTSD may be prescribed medications to help suppress symptoms. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has officially approved the use of two drugs to treat adult patients with PTSD. Sertraline and paroxetine also commonly known as Zoloft and Paxil where the two antidepressants approved to treat PTSD by the FDA. The drugs do not only treat PTSD, but they also treat…

PTSD is post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD is when something traumatizing has happened if your life and you get anxiety over it and that's what you think about most of the time. The Catcher in the Rye was a novel by J.D. Salinger. In that novel there is an protagonist named Holden Caufield. Holden Caufield was a happy but that changed after his brother Allie died. Allie died on July 18, 1946 at age 11 of leukemia. After Allie’s death Holden became depressed. After Allie died, Holden was sent…

This point focus concerns mental and wistful issues individual's involvement in the wake of 'trauma', where trauma is comprehended to allude to an occasion including being a casualty of or observer to violence, savagery, genuine frightfulness and/or the passing of another or close demise of one's self. In the wake of encountering a traumatic occasion, the brain has been known not away the points of interest and recollections and afterward send them back at surprising times and places, at times…

• 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 – Thorazine…

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 symptoms”(“PTSD: National…

Borderline personality disorder is characterized by stereotypical repetitive and maladaptive interpersonal interactions. Considerable controversy exists regarding preferred treatment and prognosis (Gregory, 2004). The moods of borderline patients are erratic, their personal relationships are turbulent, and their self-image is unstable. When serotonin is decreased, certain areas of the brain involved in emotion regulation, impulsivity and aggression causes the brain not to function properly.…

A psychiatric disability is a psychological, mental disorder, or condition that interferes with a person’s ability to perform routine tasks, such as attending classes at school or performing duties at work. Many different types of mental disorders can be considered a psychiatric disability, but anxiety and mood disorders are the most common. (Weisman 1) Anxiety disorder includes the conditions that create intense feelings of fear, anxiety, and panic in a person when placed in certain situations.…

Summary: The chronic nature of depressive disorders in adolescence, along with the adverse consequences of the non-treatment of such disorders, has led to interest in the use of SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) antidepressant medication as a means of treatment. Since the 1990s, SSRIs have become the prominent treatment option for children and adolescents with depression and have been more effective as well as safer than predecessor medications. Yet, the safety of using these…

Social stigma and labelling can have a huge impact on the attitude of medication in the client. Subsequently, the reaction of family and friends of the patients to the disorder as well as the medication also may become a social problem. For example, a patient’s spouse may divorce him or her and children may neglect them. There are other problems as well such as discrimination from employers and general public. Psychology academics often debate about the ethical issues surrounding drug therapy.…

Hot flashes, or vasomotor symptoms (VMS), are the most common symptom of perimenopause.1 During the menopausal transition, women experience fluctuations in sex hormones produced by the ovaries including estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. While the exact pathophysiology of hot flashes is still unclear, the proposed mechanism is decreased levels of neurotransmitters in the thermoregulatory center of the hypothalamus. Estrogen withdrawal induces production of hypothalamic norepinephrine and…