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How Can Schizophrenia Affect the Mental Health of a Person?

Saturday, February 26th, 2011

By Seomul Evans

Everyone responds differently to these anti-psychotic drugs and hence sometimes, several drugs and variations have to be tried to finally get the right one. Excessive production or modest production neurotransmitter, may account for the series of mental health issues, including schizophrenia.

How is Schizophrenia treated?

Medication: While putting the patients on medication greatly reduces the symptoms of Schizophrenia and to a huge extents helps restore their lives to normal, but these drugs do not completely cure them.

What are the symptoms of Schizophrenia?

Psychotic symptoms and mental health problems usually arise in men in their late teens or at the beginning of their 20’s.The most prominent signs in youngsters can be related to their lack of sleep, fall in grades or even changing of friends.

Psychotherapy: Counseling and therapy help the patients undergoing mental health problems to understand their disorder in a better manner. Some of the most commonly used drugs include chlorpromazine, haloperidol, perphenazine, and fluphenazine.

An individual with schizophrenic relatives is ten times more susceptible to develop schizophrenia as somebody who has no history of the disorder in the family.

Heredity: Investigations show that this state tends to run in families. This will prevent the patient to cause harm, either to themselves or to others. People suffering from Schizophrenia become fearful and withdrawn because they may hear voices of people (who might not even exist), or they may believe that people are plotting against them etc.

Viral Infection:

Some scientists believe that schizophrenia is caused by a virus which attacks the brain. Mental Health – Symptoms and Treatment of Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder which causes a person suffering from it to lose touch with reality.

When do people get Schizophrenia?

Neurotransmitters produce chemicals that transport electrical messages between nerve cells. This disorder causes imbalance of mental health in the patient, resulting in emotional instability and violent behavior.

Severe Symptoms: Correspond to a loss or a decline in the capability to commence with plans, speak, put across emotion, or find joy in everyday life.

Extreme Symptoms:

Refer to problems with attention, memory problems, and the executive functions that permit us to plan and organize. Hospitalization: In the initial stages, where the patient’s mental health is delicate, it’s essential to hospitalize them. Extreme symptoms can also be difficult to identify as part of the disorder but are the most disabling in terms of leading a regular life.

Damage to this particular part of the brain may result in the person becoming delusional. These symptoms are noticeable in women during their mid 20’s or early 30’s.This virus is thought to assail the part of the brain that translates messages from the senses.

What are the likely causes of Schizophrenia?

Patients may be kept under watch until their treatment begins. The symptoms of this mental health disorder are classified into 3 categories:

Mild symptoms:

Mild Symptoms are mostly deal with abnormal thoughts or perceptions, including contemplation disorder, hallucinations and disorders of movement. Schizophrenia rarely occurs after 45 years of age or before the onset of puberty.

Chemical Imbalance: Schizophrenia is caused by a disparity of neurotransmitters in the brain. These thoughts make it difficult for these patients to trust anyone and in turn to have any relationships with others. People suffering from Schizophrenia have to cooperate and work with their doctors in order to find the right medication and dosage with minimum side effects to suit their needs.

Using therapy patients can be made to cope with their daily routines, interacting with people etc. Family support is also helps to a great extent for the recovery and healing of the patient. Since the causes of Schizophrenia are not very clear and the level to which they affect an individual may vary, treatment procedures are decided based on the patient’s condition. These symptoms are difficult to identify as part of the disorder and can be mistaken for lethargy or depression.

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An Integrative Approach To Mental Health Conditions

Saturday, February 26th, 2011

By Madison Vatse

Today, mental health conditions are commonly diagnosed. Depression is widespread, and commonly treated with antidepressants. Attention Deficit Disorder is very commonly diagnosed, with stimulants prescribed quite often. Bipolar Disorder is becoming a common mental health diagnosis with medications prescribed frequently.

I have been a Board Certified practicing Psychiatrist for the past twenty years. My current observations are based on years of experience from talking to people diagnosed with these conditions.

I remember many years ago wondering why I was being asked to prescribe medication to children eating fast food and lots of sweets. How was I to tell if these children really had ADD, or were their systems “stressed” from lack of nutrients?

I also wondered about the role of our sedentary lifestyle in the increasing numbers of people diagnosed with mental health conditions. Chlldren seem to watch hours of TV and spend even more time in front of computers and video games. Yet, when we take them from this environment to a mainstream classroom we consider them distractible. But their brains have been programmed to absorb stimuli from TV and computers since they were very young. So are they really distractible, or have their learning circuits not yet been wired to learn traditionally?

And as for adults with sedentary lifestyles, it seems to reason that depression or mood disorder is a consequence.

Of course, many people with healthy lifestyles still suffer from depression, ADD and the like. But are we adequately evaluating the role of lifestyle when we make our diagnosis and prescribe medication?

Talking to literally hundreds of familes is a very humbling process. The more you get to know people the less you really understand. As a clinician, my dilemma was always, does this child or adult need medication? And have all other variables contributing to distractibility or other mental health issue been addressed first?

Another area that is not typically evaluated in a routine doctor’s visit is that of exposure to environmental toxins. As a conventional practitioner, I used to believe only small numbers of people were particularly sensitive to the environment.

Pollution is everywhere. How can we think that pollution will not affect our health and well-being, physical or mental?

We usually think of pollution as coming from fumes in the air from cars or factories. It’s true, but pollution is far more widespead than that. The plastic liners that we use to feed our infants formula contain toxins. The carpets our babies are crawling on are full of toxins.

How can we think that consistent exposure to toxins, even microtoxins, and lack of nutrition will not have an effect on our children’s physical and emotional states? And how about ours?

Last year, several colleagues and I published a study on the effects of nutritional supplements in children with Bipolar Disorder. Out of 15 children, 14 demonstrated considerable improvements with addition of high quality nutritional supplements. All the children were prescribed psychotropic medication. After 6 months of nutritional supplements, their side effect scores dropped from 45.9 to 3.6!

Clearly more scientific research is needed in these areas. But if you are on psychotropic medication, or have a child on psychotropic medication, it would seem prudent to do everything possible to minimize stress in your bodies. That includes eating as healthy as possible. Healthy cells make for healthy bodies.

It also means vigilance around the issue of environmental toxins. In reality, we are all exposed to toxins, more than ever before. Also, cleansing the body with fresh water and quality supplements becomes essential for health maintenance.

A proactive approach to one’s mental health will go along way toward restoration of balance and stability of the mind and of the emotions.

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5 Mental Health Disorders Explained

Saturday, February 26th, 2011

By Christine Crotts

A behavioral or a psychological pattern which occurs in an individual and is believed to be the reason behind causing distress or disability and which is not generally a part of normal development is often referred to as mental illness or mental health disorder. There are various conditions that are categorized as mental health disorders and the common types include anxiety disorders, mood disorders, eating disorders, psychotic disorders, personality disorders, addiction disorders, etc.

Anxiety Disorders – These kind of illnesses are often chronic and can be spotted in individuals right from childhood or can suddenly occur after the occurrence of an incident, which often is the trigger. The common symptoms include sweating, hypertension, muscle spasms, etc and at times these in turn lead to exhaustion and fatigue. Anxiety disorders generally include post traumatic stress disorder, panic disorder, specific phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, etc. The various treatment options are bringing change in lifestyle, pharmaceutical therapy, psychotherapy, etc

Personality Disorders – This illness in an individual can result in inflexible and extreme personality traits and which in turn distresses the individual or can cause problems at home or work or any other social gathering. The individual’s thoughts and behavioral patterns can be so different from what the society expects that they start interfering his or her own functioning. Examples of such behavior include obsessive compulsive personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, paranoid personality disorder, etc.

Mood Disorders – These kind of illnesses are also referred to as affective disorders and generally involve periods of feeling overly happy or persistent feeling of being extremely sad or fluctuations from extreme sadness to extreme happiness, etc. The most common examples of mood disorders include mania, depression, bipolar disorder, etc.

Eating Disorders – This type of illness is generally defined as having eating habits which are quite abnormal and may be related to excessive or insufficient food intake. However, the reasons behind them are quite complex and not yet clear. Various causes which can be attributed to eating disorders are child maltreatment or child abuse, parental influence, social isolation, cultural pressure, peer pressure, etc. In the United States, binge eating disorder is most common. Binge eating disorder is characterized by the following traits – consuming food when depressed or sad, eating large quantities of food when not really hungry, etc.

Psychotic Disorders – Distorted thinking and awareness are the characteristics of psychotic disorders. Among the most common symptoms of this disorder are delusions and hallucinations. Delusions are the imaginary false beliefs of the patients that he or she assumes to be true and hallucinations are described as the process of experiencing sounds or images which do not exist in real, for instance, hearing voices, etc. An example of a psychotic disorder is Schizophrenia.

Mental health disorders can generally be caused due to a combination of sources and in majority of these cases no single cause or reason is established. The more common view is that these disorders are a result of genetic vulnerabilities influenced by environmental stressors.

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Recovering Your Mental Health

Friday, February 25th, 2011

By Arthur Buchanan

Taking a Look at Yourself

Have you been told that you have a psychiatric or mental illness like depression, bipolar disorder or manic depression, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, dissociative disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, an eating disorder or an anxiety disorder?

Do any of the following feelings or experiences make you feel miserable or get in the way of doing the things you want to do most or all of the time?

• feeling like your life is hopeless and you are worthless

• wanting to end your life

• thinking you are so great that you are world famous, or that you can do supernatural things

• feeling anxious

• being afraid of common things like going outdoors or indoors, or of being seen in certain places

• feeling like something bad is going to happen and being afraid of everything

• being very “shaky,” nervous, continually upset and irritable

• having a hard time controlling your behavior

• being unable to sit still

• doing things over and over again–finding it very hard to stop doing things like washing your hands, counting everything or collecting things you don’t need

• doing strange or risky things – like wearing winter clothes in the summer and summer clothes in the winter, or driving too fast

• believing unusual things – like that the television or radio are talking to you, or that the smoke alarms or digital clocks in public buildings are taking pictures of you

• saying things over and over that don’t make any sense

• hearing voices in your head

• seeing things you know aren’t really there

• feeling as if everyone is against you or out to get you

• feeling out of touch with the world

• having periods of time go by when you don’t know what has happened or how the time has passed – you don’t remember being there but others say you were

• feeling unconnected to your body

• having an unusually hard time keeping your mind on what you are doing

• a sudden or gradual decrease or increase in your ability to think, focus, make decisions and understand things

• feeling like you want to cut yourself or hurt yourself in another physical way

If you answered “yes” to the first question or answered “yes” to any of these experiences, this booklet is for you. It is designed to offer helpful information and suggest things you can do to feel better.

Things To Remember

Above all, remember, you are not alone. Many people have feelings or experiences like these at some time in their lives. When such experiences become severe, some people reach out for help and treatment from health care providers. Others try to get through it on their own. Some people don’t tell anyone what they are experiencing because they are afraid people will not understand and will blame them or treat them badly. Other people share what they are experiencing with friends, family members, or co-workers.

Sometimes these feelings and experiences are so severe that friends and people around you know you are having them even though you have not told them. No matter what your situation is, these feelings and experiences are very hard to live with. They may keep you from doing what you want to do with your life, what you have to do for yourself and others, and what you find rewarding and enjoyable.

As you begin to work on helping yourself feel better, there are some important things to keep in mind.

1. You will feel better. You will feel happy again. The disturbing experiences and feelings you’ve had or are having are temporary. This may be hard to believe, but it’s true. No one knows how long these symptoms will last.

However, there are lots of things you can do to relieve them and make them go away. You will want help from others, including health care providers, family members, and friends in relieving your symptoms and for ongoing help in staying well.

2. The best time to address these feelings and experiences is now, before they get any worse.

3. These feelings and experiences are not your fault. Remember, you are just as valuable and important as anyone else.

4. When you have these kinds of feelings and experiences, it is hard to think clearly and make good decisions. If possible, don’t make any major decisions–like whether to get a job or change jobs, move, or leave a partner or friend–until you feel better. If you have to make some major decisions, especially about getting treatment, ask your friends, family members, and health care providers for help.

5. Spend time with people you know, and work on developing friendships with people who are positive, caring and who like you just the way you are. Sometimes people who have these kinds of feelings and experiences are treated badly by people who don’t understand. Try to stay away from people who treat you badly.

6. Listen to the concerns of and feedback from your health care providers, friends, and family members who are trying to be helpful, and work with them to find solutions that feel right to everyone involved.

7. These feelings and experiences do not take away your basic personal rights. You have the right to-

o ask for what you want, say yes or no, and change your mind.

o make mistakes.

o follow your own values, standards and spiritual beliefs.

o express all of your feelings, both positive or negative, in a responsible manner.

o be afraid and uncertain.

o determine what is important to you and to make your own decisions based on what you want and need.

o have the friends and interests of your choice.

o be uniquely yourself and allow yourself to change and grow.

o have your own personal space and time.

o be safe.

o be playful and frivolous.

o be treated with dignity, compassion and respect at all times.

o know the side effects of recommended medications and treatments.

o refuse medications and treatments that are unacceptable to you.

8. If you are told that the following things are not normal, don’t believe it. They are normal. These kinds of things happen to everyone and are part of being human.

o Getting angry when you are provoked

o Safely expressing emotions when you are happy, sad or excited

o Forgetting things

o Feeling tired and discouraged sometimes

o Wanting to make your own decisions about your treatment and life

9. It’s up to you to take responsibility for your behavior and for getting better. You have the right to as much help as you need, but it is crucial that you take charge

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Mental Disorder and its astrological explanation

Saturday, January 8th, 2011
Mental disorders are a psychological problem that varies from person to person and most countries face at some point in life. Therefore, it is more common than we think ambiguity or general practice of healing is the treatment given by various experts and Indian traditional forms such as yoga, meditation and spirituality. So if a person suffers from a problem that should not lose heart. Some of the largest in the world of this disorder or that we suffer increased the mood. Astrology is a science that happens to us a great help to understand what and how to transform it into positive energy.  There are nine planets and 12 Rashi in the horoscope. Rashi these planets and astrology can be connected to the disease. Gemini as bipolar disorder, depression, Saturn and Mercury as the sun and the moon, while Madness Mania and Uranus, Mars or Mars can Mercury.Similarly asymmetrical and unbalanced neurotic behavior Jupiter can cause delusional behavior. These planets have their aspacts to. most difficult aspect between Mars and Saturn as evil can lead to frustration for both. Newotn, the largest medical technology and of all time was a nervous patient breakdown.According your report malefic astrological Mars and Uranus, with the moon and the sun for affective disorder in the third house. In the case of Beethoven, the greatest musician of all time. There was also a Scorpio Ascendant. In his horoscope has a strong influence of Gemini and the third house had on them.
Linda Hamilton, the actress disease.In also suffer from bipolar disorder Horoscope T space between PISEC Jupitor and Mars and the Moon in Gemini. Another great personality who has a similar problem and astrology report, Lincoln, Churchill, John Nash and many others to add.  Hence the astrological explanation of mental disorders is high conflict between water and earth, fire and air can result elements.It Bad Sun, Mars and Moon in Sagittarius Gemini.Other wrong reason and the position of Uranus and Saturn in the chart include . According to astrology, to depression, the position of the moon in the table or a strong Saturn and Capricorn are associated.

Mental disorders are a psychological problem that varies from person to person and most countries face at some point in life. Therefore, it is more common than we think ambiguity or general practice of healing is the treatment given by various experts and Indian traditional forms such as yoga, meditation and spirituality. So if a person suffers from a problem that should not lose heart. Some of the largest in the world of this disorder or that we suffer increased the mood. Astrology is a science that happens to us a great help to understand what and how to transform it into positive energy.  There are nine planets and 12 Rashi in the horoscope. Rashi these planets and astrology can be connected to the disease. Gemini as bipolar disorder, depression, Saturn and Mercury as the sun and the moon, while Madness Mania and Uranus, Mars or Mars can Mercury.Similarly asymmetrical and unbalanced neurotic behavior Jupiter can cause delusional behavior. These planets have their aspacts to. most difficult aspect between Mars and Saturn as evil can lead to frustration for both. Newotn, the largest medical technology and of all time was a nervous patient breakdown.According your report malefic astrological Mars and Uranus, with the moon and the sun for affective disorder in the third house. In the case of Beethoven, the greatest musician of all time. There was also a Scorpio Ascendant. In his horoscope has a strong influence of Gemini and the third house had on them. Linda Hamilton, the actress disease.In also suffer from bipolar disorder Horoscope T space between PISEC Jupitor and Mars and the Moon in Gemini. Another great personality who has a similar problem and astrology report, Lincoln, Churchill, John Nash and many others to add.  Hence the astrological explanation of mental disorders is high conflict between water and earth, fire and air can result elements.It Bad Sun, Mars and Moon in Sagittarius Gemini.Other wrong reason and the position of Uranus and Saturn in the chart include . According to astrology, to depression, the position of the moon in the table or a strong Saturn and Capricorn are associated.