Psychiatric medication

Meanwhile, the prevalence of ADHD in other countries such as France, Finland, and Japan, has remained low at below 1 percent. This means that millions of American kids, some as young as three years old, are misdiagnosed and taking powerful stimulant medications like…

Stimulant psychosis is a temporary psychiatric condition that develops among some individuals who use and/or abuse stimulant medications or illicit stimulatory drugs. Two of the most common drugs may induce stimulant psychosis are amphetamines and cocaine. Psychosis is usually defined as a loss of contact with reality and is typically considered a common symptom of a severe mental illness like schizophrenia. Individuals encountering psychosis may end up dealing with auditory and/or visual…

At first, the individuals resist taking medications. People resist to accept both diagnosis and medications because of the stigma attached to the mental illness. They simply did not want to be labelled to avoid the consequences. During the second period, despite the oppositions to the drugs, patients finally accept the short term medical treatment because of the pressure to take medications by the psychiatrists and the patients accept taking medications because they feel that they have no…

reality, and psychosis may be manifested in either positive or negative symptoms (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Positive symptoms include hallucinations (e.g. auditory and visual), delusions and disorganized speech and thought; meanwhile, negative symptoms include reduced affect, and catatonia (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). During the internship at Lenox Hill Hospital’s psychiatric unit, I was able to observe a number of acute schizophrenic patients—these individuals…

Huntington disease What is Huntington disease? Huntington disease is an inherited neurologic disorder characterized by progressive neurodegeneration resulting in abnormal movements (chorea), sustained postures (dystonia), psychiatric symptoms, and dementia. The condition most frequently affects individuals during mid-life, but patients range from childhood to age 80. Symptoms are typically insidious – they come about slowly and progressively. Chorea is described as a dance-like, rapid,…

Does it ask all of the necessary questions to determine what the client’s presenting problem is? Please support your answer. Yes, the intake form covers necessary questions to determine the client’s presenting problem. It has a section that asks the consumer to list the problems they are seeking help for and what goals they hope to accomplish. There is also a symptoms checklist with options that include depressed mood, excessive worry, anxiety attacks, and excessive guilt. Knowledge about…

Anxiety 40 million Americans ages 18 and up have anxiety. Many people are hurt by mean and rude comments against them. Anxiety was first discovered in 1980 by the American Psychiatric Association. Anxiety is one of the worst mental disabilities for people around the world. Many people die from suicide from the anxiety attacks to the disrespect from others. Living with anxiety is bad but therapy can help. If you go the therapy it will be a lot better for you and for your family and…

will further prepare me in dealing with a wide range of patients as psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, I chose the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner because mental health affects so many people around the globe. I’m aware of the issues that faces patients who suffer from a mental illness every single day. Mental disorders are among the most common causes of disability around the…

Importance of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors as a Drug Target Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are found in humans’ central nervous system and play a major role in the peripheral nervous system, including acting as a neuronal communication channel; available at the skeleton muscle and receives acetylcholine purposely released to transmission for contraction of muscles. Additionally, they are responsible for the conversion of neurotransmitter bindings into electronic depolarization. Here, the…

“Once mainstays in psychiatric institutions, many OTs left the mental health arena when psych treatment moved en masse in the 1980s…” (Glomstad). The exit of occupational therapists from the mental health branch is mind-boggling. Today, occupational therapists are nearly nonexistent when it comes to mental institutions, “…the number of OTs and OTAs practicing in the mental health arena is now a meager 2 percent nationally” (Lagrossa). Society doesn’t realize what occupational therapists bring to…