Selective breeding

All people are different when it comes to their experience with addiction and mental illness. Some begin to experience mental health issues during childhood or adolescence and experiment with drugs and alcohol soon after, developing both an addiction problem and a serious mental illness at the same time. Others may seek out drugs and alcohol in an attempt to “self-medicate” a mental health issue that develops in early adulthood or that develops out of an injury or trauma later in life. Still…

With respect of knowledge, people often search for purpose behind everyday experiences to rectify meaning. The problem is that everyday objects, actions, and people come from endless diverse backgrounds resulting from both positive and negative intention. General practices such as religions or sports originate from centuries before and accumulate greater purpose as they continue. Every purpose behind rituals holds moral value that shape around the best optimal perspective. A person may find a…

How Is Armodafinil Better Than Modafinil? Modafinil and Armodafinil both drugs are used to improve the energy levels and alertness. Modafinil (Provigil) was developed early in France by the Company called as Lafon and it was started using for narcolepsy in 1994. Armodafinil is came in to the market since 2007. It is like a mirror image of Modafinil, but its changed chemical structure making it more strong. If we looks at the clinical angle, it is prescribed for the same clinical…

The skin is the largest organ of the human body, it is a barrier not only from water and dirt but from most viruses and bacteria. From the outer appearance of the skin you can infer if anything is wrong or may be going wrong inside the body. Diet is a factor for how how skin can appear, knowing this I want to find out if a specific diet could possibly help clear my skin. In the beginning of my skin flare ups, I visited with my primary care physician. Hoping to eliminate the possibility of…

Antidepressants, such as Prozac (Fluoxetine), were the second most commonly prescribed medications in 2010 (Insel). Most commonly, Prozac is indicated for major depressive disorder. Depression is a mental illness with symptoms of low mood, loss in pleasure, and changes in appetite, sleep, and concentration strong enough to effect a person’s life (Magni). Many people today still struggle with depression, and it’s important for them to be informed on drugs that may be able to treat them and turn…

What is Depression? Depression is clinically diagnosed as a mood disorder that may cause severe symptoms such as a persistent feeling of sadness or impaired concentration. It may have an affect over a person’s mood, behavior and thoughts, which in turn can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. Major factors that play a role in depression include genetics, neurobiology/chemistry, or life events such as trauma, loss of a loved one, divorce, or any stressful situation. Depressed…

The main character of “As Soon As It Gets”, Melvin Udall, suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. OCD is an anxiety disorder, characterized by two distinctive features: persistent and unwanted thoughts, images, ideas etc. (obsessions) which the individual cannot control, and repetitive ritualistic behaviors (compulsions) which aim to reduce anxiety (Austrian 2012). In the movie, Udall cannot force himself to step on the cracks in the pavement, and fears germs, which urges him to use…

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) deals with an illogical link from the obsession to the compulsion, or ritual. The obsession is the source of the individual’s fears, such as germs or death, and the ritual is the practices one performs, such as washing one’s hands or blinking a certain number of times, as an alleviation of their obsession. The link may or may not make sense to the individual; with the latter case, the ritual is mainly performed just in case something bad was to happen. Those…

Everyone has heard of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. In fact, many people have the belief that they have obsessive compulsive disorder even when they really do not. They believe this for various reasons, some including wanting everything clean, being a “perfectionist,” etc. Against popular belief, a person is not OCD just because they expect things to be orderly and clean. Within another realm of disorders, rests Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder. Similar, but far from the same.…

HUMAN SERVICES AND POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER IN THE MILITARY I. INTRODUCTION A. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), caused by exposure to a traumatic event, is a mental health condition characterized by recurrent nightmares or flashbacks, avoiding reminders/recounting the event, distorted mental processes or emotional numbing, and a persistently high state of arousal and reactivity (Institute of Medicine , 2014) B. In the military, PTSD is caused by various elements of combat exposure…