Care Plan for Mrs. Mary Jane: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patient Initials: __MJ____ Age: _____65 yrs._______ Sex: _____F______ Subjective Data: Client Complaints: Mrs. Mary Jane complaints of persistent dry cough for two weeks, fever for two days with highest oral temperature of 101F. She also complaints of poor appetite. History of Present Illness: Mrs. Jane has had episodes of persistent dry cough with fever in the past. She had persistent dry cough and shortness of breath…
The most common mental illness in the United States are anxiety disorders. Anxiety Disorders is a health disorder characterized by feelings of worry, anxiety, or fear that are strong enough to interfere with one’s daily activities. This disorder has affected forty million adults in the U.S. age eighteen and older. Sadly, people who are affected with an anxiety disorder suffer with symptoms like jumpiness, trembling, hyperactivity, dizziness, racing heart, apprehensive expectations and thoughts…
Eating disorder is a type of illness where serious issues affect your everyday diet whether it will make you eat less or extremely more. This illness can occur through by genetic, biological, behavioral, psychological, and social factors. According to The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and binge-eating disorder (BED). Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care also conducted recent studies showing…
Depression, formally known as melancholia, has been around since the seventeenth century. For as long as patients have been diagnosed with depression, it has been a genuine dispute. The nine types of this disease include: major, bipolar, persistent, seasonal, psychotic, postpartum, premenstrual, situational, and atypical depression. Depression is a very common disease that affects several people throughout our world today. Sometimes it is hard to decipher if someone is depressed. The person…
PTSD PTSD can be compared to ghosts for many people. Some think this disorder is fiction, and some think it is non-fiction. This happens to be the case for PTSD. Many are skeptics of this controversial disorder. If PTSD, for many people, is not real, then what are these people experiencing, and what is really wrong them? In my opinion, with many proven facts and research, PTSD is very much real. It is a disease and mental health problem that affects many people today. PTSD, also know as Post…
Introduction Strattera is the product name for atomoxetine. Physicians prescribe it to both children and adults diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, one of the most common childhood disorders that can continue into adulthood. Those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have trouble paying attention and controlling their behavior. Strattera is in a class of medications known as selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs). It works by increasing the…
Chief Complaint: John is a 49-year-old, single, Black/African American male who presented to outpatient psychotherapy for anxiety, depression and anger. He reported feelings of “worthlessness” as if he is “struggling through life”. History of Present Illness: John presented with an apparent long-standing history of depression and low self-esteem. Over the course of 33 years, his behavioral responses manifested in abusing drugs, criminal behavior, and presently recurrent anger. Prior to…
& caffeine as found in tea. Codyre has made no warning how the cyp gene elicits an increase of mirtazapine. David administered the treatment metabolized by cyp mentioned in the medsafe schedule. Doctors co-administerations overlapping. Adding to sertraline and paroxetine this is negligence as per documents. That lesser circumstances internally…
The diagnostic criteria for OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) includes recurring and unwanted thoughts & urges which are hard to suppress and may cause discomfort or anxiety; this is known as obsession. Subsequently, there are compulsions, repetitive behaviors and actions performed by a person in a response to an obsession or an unrealistic belief it will prevent a horrific event or sooth anxiety. In order to meet the criteria for OCD these obsessions, compulsions, or a combination of both…
Huntington’s Disease Huntington’s disease is an inherited disease that causes degeneration of brain cells. It is a complex disease that affects specific areas in the brain, one particular is the the motor area. The degeneration of brain cells is caused from a genetic mutation in DNA during DNA synthesis. The defect causes cytosine, adenine, and guanine (CAG) to repeat over and over again in DNA sequencing. With each generation that develops HD the mutation may expand further causing more CAG…