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Arthur Buchanan
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17th November 2006
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a type of depression related to the change of seasons. It usually affects people during the fall and winter months, though some experience it during the summer months. Researchers disagree on the exact causes of SAD. O...
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17th November 2006
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is usually grouped with anxiety disorders. In recent years it has been increasingly treated with antidepressant medications. OCD consists of two components - obsessive thinking and compulsive actions. It's possible to g...
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17th November 2006
Dealing with Impulsive Behaviors
"ADHD" children in elementary school tend to act without thinking first. Behaviorally, this shows itself in a lack of understanding of cause and effect. Attention Deficit students do things without thinking about the co...
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17th November 2006
Class Dismissed,
Millions of children long to hear each day those wonderful words Class dismissed. However, different children respond to those words differently. Most students learn fairly quickly that when the teacher dismisses them that they need t...
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15th November 2006
The years of hospitals and doctors are just a dream now. The drinking is now gone, a new life has begun. It just doesn't seem possible to really be free. Bad days now don't even compare to those of a long time ago when I had no soul because I was polluted...
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15th September 2006
What Are the Symptoms?
ADHD used to be known as attention deficit disorder, or ADD. In 1994, it was renamed ADHD and broken down into three subtypes, each with its own pattern of behaviors:
1. an inattentive type, with signs that include:
• inabi...
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22nd July 2006
I must at this point mention the treatment I received from the management of the place where I used to work! I had always done my best for this company, but they always were of the opinion that I somehow was faking my illness or that I didn't want to work...
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19th July 2006
At times, the pain became so intense that I would turn to the booze and still take the pills. What a sight; I would be all drunk and on pills and hating myself and wanting to die but too afraid to kill myself because I thought I would go to hell, and that...
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17th July 2006
Besides medicine, I have even had shock treatments and that seemed to help for a while. I must tell you, though, the treatment you receive in the psychic wards is normally terrible
(to a degree).
They treat yo...
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06th July 2006
When I was a small child I would tremble with fear and hide underneath my covers every night hoping that the hideous monster that lived under my bed would not devour me in one bite. I mean I would literally keep my head covered for three to four hours at ...
Views: 140
02nd May 2006
Overview
Post-traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder that's triggered by your memories of a traumatic event — an event that directly affected you or an event that you witnessed.
The disorder commonly affects survivors of traumatic events, su...
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02nd May 2006
Overview
You may be hooked emotionally and psychologically. You may have a physical dependence, too. If you have a drug addiction — whether to a legal or illegal drug — you have intense cravings for it. You want to use the drug again and again. When yo...
Views: 142
02nd May 2006
Eating disorders
Overview
Eating disorders are characterized by a preoccupation with weight that results in severe disturbances in eating and other behaviors. Eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder. Ot...
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25th April 2006
The Caring for Every Child's Mental Health communications campaign is a national public information and education campaign to:
• Increase public awareness about the importance of protecting and nurturing the mental health of young people.
• Foste...
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25th April 2006
What is Dual Diagnosis?
A person who has both an alcohol or drug problem and an emotional/psychiatric problem is said to have a dual diagnosis. To recover fully, the person needs treatment for both problems.
How Common Is Dual Diagnosis?
Dua...
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