Depression

  • Antidepressant Comparisons

    Antidepressant Comparisons

    MAOIs act by inhibiting monoamine oxidase, a complex enzyme system that metabolizes excess serotonin and epinephrine. It holds the negativity of inducing potential life-threatening problems and therefore cannot be used in patients with congestive cardiac failure or in those with a history of liver disease....

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  • Antidepressant Medications

    Antidepressant Medications

    The currently available classes of Antidepressants include monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), tricyclic Antidepressants (TCAs), selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), novel Antidepressants, and tetracyclic Antidepressants. MAOIs act by inhibiting monoamine oxidase, a complex enzyme system that metabolizes excess serotonin and epinephrine. It...

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  • Antidepressant Side Effects

    Antidepressant Side Effects

    MAOIs hold the potential to induce life-threatening problems. The Side Effects associated with its use are hypertensive crisis, rapid heartbeat, blood cell problems, insomnia, dizziness, headache, fluid retention, and loss of appetite. It therefore cannot be used in patients of congestive cardiac failure or in...

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  • Antidepressants

    Antidepressants

    In 2002, 8.5 percent of the US civilian noninstitutionalized population had purchased at least one prescription Antidepressant. The currently available classes of Antidepressants include monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), tricyclic Antidepressants (TCAs), selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), novel Antidepressants, and tetracyclic Antidepressants....

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  • Best Antidepressants

    Best Antidepressants

    Although no Antidepressant is ideal, St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum L.) extract has proved its Antidepressant efficacy to the market that encourages effectiveness. It is a medicinal herb of centuries-old therapeutic stand, and has been named “arnica of the nerves” because of its therapeutic benefit...

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  • Natural Antidepressants

    Natural Antidepressants

    The Natural Antidepressants that impress their effectiveness on experts’ minds include St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum), SAM-e (S-adenosyl-L-methionine), and 5-HTP (5-hydroxytryptophan). St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum L.) extract has proved its Antidepressant efficacy to the market. It is a medicinal herb of centuries-old therapeutic stand...

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  • New Antidepressants

    New Antidepressants

    The SSRIs act by inhibiting serotonin reuptake, and are considered the most popular, effective and safe prescription medications. The new prescription SSRIs used to treat depression include citalopram (Celexa), escitalopram oxalate (Lexapro), fluoxetine (Prozac, Prozac Weekly, Sarafem), paroxetine (Paxil, Paxil CR), and sertraline (Zoloft). Citalopram,...

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  • Tricyclic Antidepressants

    Tricyclic Antidepressants

    Tricyclic Antidepressants (TCAs) are so-called because of their molecular structure, which contains three rings of atoms. They act mainly by inhibiting the reuptake of both norepinephrine and serotonin. Other receptors that might also experience a TCA induced inhibition are muscuranic, alpha1 adrenergic, and histaminic receptors....

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  • Anxiety

    Anxiety

    Anxiety is a normal response to various types of stress or danger. Anxiety can manifest itself as an uneasiness of mind regarding an impending or anticipated ill. Although anxiety can be beneficial in certain situations, more often it is an abnormal and overwhelming sense of...

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  • Anxiety and Panic Attacks

    Anxiety and Panic Attacks

    In today’s fast-paced world, some people find themselves overwhelmed by worries that interfere with their ability to function. Daily activities become almost impossible as the person experiences a variety of physical and psychological symptoms. Anxiety and panic attacks may afflict up to 8% of the...

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  • Anxiety Treatment

    Anxiety Treatment

    If you’ve been diagnosed as having an anxiety disorder, it’s important to fully explore your treatment options. For a treatment to be effective, you have to be committed to it and be willing to learn techniques to control those overwhelming feelings of worry and apprehension....

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  • Depression and Anxiety

    Depression and Anxiety

    The relationship between anxiety and depression isn’t always clear-cut. If you’ve been diagnosed with depression, you might have anxiety as a secondary condition. Conversely, people diagnosed with anxiety often suffer from depression. While both conditions have many symptoms in common, there are important differences. Both...

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  • Bulimia Treatment:  Advice and Options

    Bulimia Treatment: Advice and Options

    Bulimia is an eating disorder compels people to binge on food and then purge through self-induced vomiting, diuretics or laxative abuse, or excessive exercise. People with bulimia tend to feel guilty and disgusted about food and fat. Even though most people with bulimia begin at...

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  • Main Causes of Bulimia

    Main Causes of Bulimia

    Some people may feel that they are fat, no matter how thin they actually are. Or they may feel guilty when they eat too much food. The guilt and shame from eating makes the person vomit up all their food. These people have bulimia nervosa,...

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  • The Bulimia Recovery Process

    The Bulimia Recovery Process

    People with bulimia often feel like they are keeping a secret. No one knows how terrified they are about how they look and how fat they feel. No one knows they are so afraid of gaining weight that after eating they will quietly go the...

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  • The Effects of Bulimia

    The Effects of Bulimia

    People with bulimia have an eating disorder that causes them to binge on food and then, usually, throw up the food during binge-and-purge cycles. Some people may exercise excessively or abuse diuretics or laxatives. Although there is no known cause of bulimia, people who suffer...

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  • The Harmful Emergence of Pro-Bulimia Attitudes

    The Harmful Emergence of Pro-Bulimia Attitudes

    Though bulimia is classified as an eating disorder, not everyone with bulimia feels like they have a disorder. Some view bulimia and anorexia as lifestyles—chosen lifestyles. People with bulimia and anorexia are terrified or shamed by the thought of getting fat or even eating. They...

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  • The Link Between Anorexia and Bulimia

    The Link Between Anorexia and Bulimia

    Young women and men sometimes starve themselves. It doesn’t matter how thin they may be— in their internal mirror, they are fat. Or they may so afraid of gaining weight, yet so desperately hungry, that they eat and eat until they feel so guilty that...

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  • Understanding Bulimia

    Understanding Bulimia

    When a girl enters puberty, her body changes. It begins to look like a woman’s body, rather than a girl’s. Fat begins to appear. Breasts develop and hips widen as the girl grows. For some young woman, these changes are greeted with excitement. For other...

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  • What are the Symptoms of Bulimia?

    What are the Symptoms of Bulimia?

    Bulimia is an eating disorder. People with bulimia usually have a normal weight, but perceive themselves to be fat. Or they may feel intense guilt or self-disgust when they eat. These feelings are so strong that people with bulimia throw up much of the food...

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  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or the Chronic Fatigue Dysfunction Syndrome is characterized by some symptoms that are often confused to be because of high blood pressure or influenza. The person often feels fatigued for long periods of time, with muscle cramps, nausea and other symptoms that...

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  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Fibromyalgia

    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Fibromyalgia

    Fibromyalgia syndrome is somewhat similar to chronic fatigue syndrome in the sense that both are chronic diseases. However, Fibromyalgia is characterized by severe pain in specific areas of the body such as neck, shoulders, spine and hips. This disease, unlike chronic fatigue that centers mostly...

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  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Symptoms

    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Symptoms

    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or the Chronic Fatigue Dysfunction Syndrome is characterized by some symptoms that are often confused to be because of high blood pressure or influenza. The person often feels fatigued for long periods of time, with muscle cramps, severe headache, nausea and other...

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  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Treatments

    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Treatments

    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or the Chronic Fatigue Dysfunction Syndrome is characterized by some symptoms that are often confused to be the result of high blood pressure or influenza. The person often feels fatigued for long periods of time, with muscle cramps, severe headache, nausea and...

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  • Clinical Depression

    Clinical Depression

    Clinical depression is a medical term used to refer to any form of depression that requires treatment in order to alleviate it. Typically, people are prone to depression when something bad or what they perceive as bad occurs in their lives, such as the death...

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