May 22nd, 2008 depression Posted in manic depression, medication for depression, medications for depression, mental depression, mental health, mental illness, mood disorder, panic attacks, psychologist, psychotherapist, psychotherapy Comments Off
Depression can be a difficult problem to treat in over 35% of cases that are not affected by antidepressant therapies. In this article I am reporting on a case of an elderly individual who had been in a period of Major Depression for over 1 year characterized by insomnia, panic attacks, morbid sense of worry, poor appetite, weight loss, poor concentration, and agoraphobia.
This individual had been receiving the best psychiatric care available from a psychiatrist from a teaching hospital specializing in Mood Disorders. The patient was on, in my view, on the optimal dose of antidepressant needed for more than the adequate amount of time i.e. more than 8 weeks yet was still not well (one usually knows whether or not one is going to respond after about 6 weeks, and after such time with no response the antidepressant is often withdrawn for another or is supplemented with some other agent).
In this case I inquired whether this individual might wish to try to supplement with an entirely new approach which is not well known in the conventional (or much in the naturopathic) medical community. The patient was willing.
This new approach was a new biofeedback device that is able to measure electromagnetic energy imbalances in a person’s electromagnetic field across many (almost 7000) dimensions be they those of vitamins, minerals, proteins, hormone levels etc. It is also then able to send “rebalancing” signals to that person in real time at the same levels.
This individual consented to this process and received two 45 minute sessions over a period of 1 week with this device. After this the patient’s condition changed dramatically.
The patient, following the exercise, recovered normal mood & sleep patterns, had no more anxiety or agoraphobia, had regained a significant amount of emotional and physical energy, was no longer worrying, was thinking more clearly and no longer having panic attacks.
This was over two years ago. The patient has been maintained on bi-weekly to monthly 30 minute sessions of this approach to help stabilize the condition.
The most interesting part about this new device is that the patient did not even have to travel to my office to get this experience. I was able to effect it directly from my office while the patient was at home.
Nick Arrizza is trained in Chemical Engineering, Business Management & Leadership, Medicine and Psychiatry. He is former medical doctor & psychiatrist Key Note Speaker, Stress Management Coach, Peak Performance Coach & Energy Medicine Researcher, Specializes in Life and Executive Performance Coaching, is the Developer of a powerful new tool called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) that helps build physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being by helping to permanently release negative beliefs, emotions, perceptions and memories. He holds live workshops, international telephone coaching sessions and international teleconference workshops on Physical. Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Well Being.
Email: nickarrizza@gmail.com
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May 15th, 2008 depression Posted in anxiety and depression, anxiety depression, anxiety disorder, manic depression, manic depression treatment, mental depression, mental health, mental illness, mood disorder, panic attack, panic attacks, psychotherapist, psychotherapy Comments Off
Both panic disorder and agoraphobia are sub-types of anxiety disorder. The typical onset of these disorders is marked during childhood or adolescence, however, in some cases it may come into notice during adulthood. Although both of these conditions are categorized under the heading of anxiety disorder, the causes of these two conditions are entirely different.
Causes
As estimated by National Institute of Medical Health (NIMH), more than 4 million individuals in the United States are suffering from panic disorder. Although researchers are putting much effort, they have not come into a single conclusion regarding the exact cause of this problem. In fact, they shed light on a wide array of factors that may contribute to the development of the problem, including genetic, psychological, physiological and environmental factors.
Many clinical evidences show that panic disorder runs through families, which means, if any or both of the parents are suffering from it, there is high possibility that the offspring will be diagnosed as such. In fact, it is also seen that individuals may experience this illness if their parents are suffering from depression or any other sorts of anxiety disorder.
Moreover, twin studies have shown there is a strong likelihood of genetic inheritance for developing this disorder. In addition, biological malfunction or biological imbalance may cause further development. 5-HTT, a particular gene, is responsible for forming the regulation of serotonin, a factor supposed to influence the development of panic disorder.
Environmental factors such as stress may also trigger an attack. Stressful life events such as divorce, separation, recent loss, major life transitions may contribute to the development. Childhood experience may also lead anxiety to erupt. Many individuals with panic disorder in adult phase reported about child abuse during their childhood.
Causes of Agoraphobia
The term agoraphobia was coined from the Greek meaning ‘fear of the marketplace’. This disorder is described as an anxiety that a victim experiences about situations, where escape is not possible. An individual suffering from agoraphobia may reveal some typical behavior patterns: (1) deliberate avoidance of stressful situations, (2) looking for company in such situations, (3) strongly unwilling to stay inside the car, airplane, crowded room.
The exact causes triggering agoraphobia are still unknown to the researchers. However, they put forward few hypotheses to determine the causes behind the development of agoraphobia. One of them is of course childhood experience. It is seen that if an individual with child abuse experience is at higher risk for developing agoraphobia later in life. Some theorists also contend the cause of agoraphobia as a learned behavior. Genetic makeup and chemical imbalance also add up to the development of agoraphobia.
April 29th, 2008 depression Posted in Depression Symptoms, bipolar, bipolar depression, bipolar disorder, chronic depression, coping with depression, counseling, counselors, depression, depression drug, depression help, depression hurts, depression medication, depression medications, depression medicine, depression meds, depression pills, depression quiz, depression signs, depression treatment, eating disorders, family counseling, fighting depression, help for depression, insomnia, manic depression, manic depression treatment, medication for depression, medications for depression, mental depression, mental health, mental illness, mood disorder, overcoming depression, panic attack, panic attacks, psychologist, psychotherapist, psychotherapy, seasonal depression, severe depression, signs of depression, stress and depression, substance abuse, symptoms of depression, treating depression, treatments for depression Comments Off
Depression is a psychological disorder which affects how you live your life. It affects everything. It affects your health, it affects your social life and it affects how you live your everyday life.
Depression can cause your health to deteriorate and should be treated immediately after you notice something different about your friend or your family’s personality. This is because depression can lead to a more serious health and psychological problem.
It is naturally for people to feel sad or depressed from time to time. It may be caused by loss, frustration, or an injured self-esteem. However, sometimes these feelings may cause a person to affect their ability to think, eat, sleep, work, and getting along with other people.
If you see these examples of behavior from your friend or from a member of your family, sign or symptoms, it is likely that they are suffering from depression and should immediately be treated in order to avoid further deterioration in the person’s emotional, physical and mental health.
• If you see him or her being always sad
• If you see feelings of hopelessness
• Always feeling guilty about something they didn’t even do
• Lose of self worth
• Loss of interest in things they do that usually makes them happy
• Loss of appetite
• Irritable
• Always thinks about being alone
• Don’t go out with friends
• Thinks or talks about suicide or makes an attempt to commit suicide
As you can see, severe depression can be very dangerous and can be life threatening. If you don’t act immediately, they may commit suicide or suffer from a more severe mental and physical disorder.
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Giving birth to a child is one of women’s peaks of achievement that no man will ever be able to experience. The feeling of giving birth to a child, albeit an extremely painful experience, is a joy like no other.
But sadly, there are women who instead of being jubilated has felt depressed after. Not that because they don’t want the child, but because of a hormonal imbalance that is called Postpartum depression.
Some women don’t even succumb to Postpartum depression during their first born. Postpartum depression may happen even with the second or third child. A mother who has just given birth may feel extreme feelings of depression, anxiety and irritability.
Sometimes this feelings can be quite intense and can be a hindrance to a woman’s ability to normally function. When that happens, that is a sure sign that she must seek medical attention.
Early detection is necessary for a faster and easier treatment, that is why if you notice any of the Postpartum depression symptom listed below, consult your doctor immediately.
· Intense depression and frequent crying
· Severely irritable and very restless
· Always tired and unable to sleep
· Extreme weight loss and no appetite
· Either has no concern or over concern to the new baby
· Feeling worthless, guilty and inadequate
· Great fear of doing harm to the baby or to herself
· No interest in socializing and precious habits
Being able to quickly diagnose Post partum depression is the key to a successful treatment. So it is best to consul a doctor immediately if any Postpartum depression symptom is noticed.
April 29th, 2008 depression Posted in Depression Symptoms, addiction, anti depression, antidepressant, antidepressants, anxiety and depression, anxiety depression, bipolar, bipolar disorder, chronic depression, coping with depression, counseling, counselors, cures for depression, depression, depression medications, depression medicine, depression meds, depression pills, depression quiz, depression treatment, depressive disorder, drugs for depression, eating disorders, family counseling, manic depression, manic depression treatment, medication for depression, mental depression, mental health, mental illness, mood disorder, overcoming depression, panic attack, panic attacks, psychologist, seasonal depression, severe depression, signs of depression, stress and depression, substance abuse, symptoms of depression, treating depression, treatments for depression Comments Off
Do you find yourself often irritable or angry, trapped in confusion, misery, uncertainty, unconfident, and hopeless that you feel that your life has no direction or your life isn’t worth living?
These feelings are emotional symptoms of depression. It is not as simple as having a bad day that disappears quickly, but continues to stay and interfere in your daily life. Emotional symptoms co-exist with physical symptoms too.
Physical symptoms of depression are sometimes interpreted as symptoms of physical illness although they’re not, and it is necessary to be aware and know how to deal with it.
These changes in your body may include:
• Headaches, back pain and chest pain are common in people with depression.
• Digestive problems – sluggish movement of intestines that results to fullness of the stomach, dyspepsia and constipation may be experienced.
• Sleep disturbance – trouble going to sleep (insomia) or frequently waking up in the middle of the night, early-morning awakening and unable to sleep again or sometimes oversleeping.
• Exhaustion and fatigue- you easily get tired or cannot perform even the simplest task.
• Change in appetite or weight - loss of appetite resulting to weight loss or craves for sweet, rich foods and overeats therefore gains weight.
• Sexual dysfunction- women may have a problem such as irregular menstrual period and loss of interest in sex and erectile impotence for men.
If you experienced or have been experiencing these physical symptoms, discuss this with your doctor for proper treatment and teach you how to cope better.
Above all, help yourself. Think positively. Try to find out your special skills or talents and then develop them. Set up priorities and focus on your role in life. Depression affects not only you, but also those who love you.
April 29th, 2008 depression Posted in Depression Symptoms, addiction, anti depression, antidepressant, antidepressants, anxiety and depression, anxiety depression, bipolar, bipolar depression, bipolar disorder, chronic depression, coping with depression, counseling, counselors, dealing with depression, depression, depression chat, depression diagnosis, depression drug, depression help, depression hurts, depression medication, depression meds, depression pills, depression quiz, depression signs, depression treatment, depressive disorder, eating disorders, family counseling, fighting depression, help for depression, insomnia, manic depression treatment, medications for depression, mental depression, mental health, mental illness, mood disorder, overcoming depression, panic attack, panic attacks, psychologist, psychotherapist, psychotherapy Comments Off
Being depressed or feeling sad from time to time is a natural reaction of humans when they experience something traumatic, like the loss of a loved one, loss of job, domestic violence, divorce, stress, financial problems, social failures and others.
However, sometimes these feelings can get out of hand and the person suffering from manic depression can be a danger to others and to him or herself.
Manic depressive illness is also called bipolar mood disorder. The person suffering from one may switch moods from depression and mania frequently. You probably know about and refer to it as mood swings.
This illness can be classified as mild, moderate and severe. People with this kind of illness should be treated immediately by consulting a psychiatrist and family and friends should fully support the person suffering from the said illness.
In order to know if the person has a manic depressive illness or bipolar mood disorder, here are examples of signs and symptoms you should watch out for:
Feelings:
• Frequently feels sad
• Loss of interest in spending time with family or friends
• Pessimistic
• Loss of interest in sex
• Loss of interest in having fun or do activities that usually makes him or her happy
• Anxiety attacks
• Always worried about something
Thoughts:
• Loss of self-esteem
• Obsessed with a certain thought
• Hearing voices or hallucinating
• Having strange ideas or delusions
• Thoughts of suicide or homicide
• Slowed thinking
Physical:
• Loss of appetite
• Weight loss
• Loss of energy
• Cravings for sweets
• Frequent attacks of headaches and muscle aches
• Restlessness
Behaviors:
• Slowed speech and movement
• Loss of interest with social contact
• Excessive use of alcohol and drugs
• Cries easily
These are the symptoms of depression. In mania, however, it is very different. You may notice that they will suddenly be happy. They may have high self-esteem, increase in creativity, and decreased need for sleep.
However, there will be times that he or she will overreact with the slightest thing happening, having the urge of destroying properties, and will have a hostile attitude.
These feelings will cycle frequently. You will notice that on one day he or she will be depressed and on the other he or she will be extremely happy and goes back to depression after a day or two.
This illness can be life threatening for him or her and to other person.
Not treating this illness will result in increased severity over the years and manic depression simptoms ‘ll worst.
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In about 1 year, roughly 20 million Americans or about 10 percent of the American population will be afflicted by depression. This results to a severe hamper to their ability to function well and will further result to high economic damages, but the emotional damages are catastrophically higher.
And because most of the depressed population doesn’t seek help or has failed to diagnose the disorder, some of them will progress on to clinical or major depression.
This hinders a person’s ability to work, study, eat, sleep and enjoy activities that are usually pleasurable to them before being stricken with major depression.
Therefore it is essential that major depression symptoms be detected and noticed so that professional help and treatment be administered to stop the depressive disorder and allow a person to function normally and enjoy life.
Major depression symptoms:
- Continuous Sad, depressed and anxious emotion felt
- Always negative, hopeless, guilt, feeling worthless and helpless
- Loss of interest in sex and other favorite recreational activities
- Over fatigue, slow and has no energy
- Finds difficulty in concentrating, making decisions and remembering events
- Insomnia or wakes up early
- Has low appetite with significant weight loss or overeating with significant weigh gain
- Irritable and restless
- Recurring physical symptoms like headaches, chronic pain and digestive problems
Some of the symptoms listed above may not happen with some people with major depression. But having 2 or more is already enough for a person to be diagnosed with major depression.
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Everyone has been down to the dumps. It’s okay to feel sad from time to time. It’s just a natural human emotion. While we’d rather be happy all the time, this is an unavoidable emotion as we do experience being let down, disappointments and loss. But we do get up and become stronger persons. We take challenges and turn them into opportunities.
If a person who doesn’t get out of his slump for about two weeks, then there is a problem. Beyond that, he or she may have clinical depression.
Among all mental illnesses, clinical depression is one of the most common and easiest to treat. This disorder also happens to anyone, irregardless of culture, sex and class.
Sadly, many people fail to get treatment, although treatments have an 85 to 90% success rate, because they fail to be diagnosed in time, partly because they don’t know the clinical depression symptoms.
For proper diagnosis of clinical depression you must know the clinical depression symptoms. If you notice someone you know that has at least 2 or 4 of these clinical depression symptoms they need to seek professional help immediately:
· Melancholia, constantly sad and depressed and moving very slow.
· Overly fatigue and loss of energy.
· No interest and pleasure found in previously enjoyed activities.
· Easily noticeably changes in sleeping habits and insomnia.
· Feeling guilty and worthless.
· Thinking of suicide, death and/or has attempted suicide.
For people with clinical depression, these symptoms are lingering and never ceases.
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The term bipolar is adequate as it is in regards to the two opposite poles of emotions a person with bipolar depression feels. This is the depressed phase and the manic phase.
The depressed phase is where the usual symptoms of depression are seen. In the manic phase, a bipolar depressed person will feel the exact opposite. In this phase the person will feel over ecstatic, euphoric and hyperactive.
The frequency of mood swings varies from one bipolar depressed person to another. Some would have frequent mood swings while some would only experience a swing once or twice in their lifetime.
Bipolar Depression Symptom
The depressed phase is the more dominant phase in these cyclic symptoms. A patient need have a recurring manic phase to be diagnosed with Bipolar Depression, if he or she exhibits a number of the manic symptoms twice or thrice in a lifetime; he or she is a bipolar depression afflicted person.
Depressive Phase Symptoms:
Social Withdrawal
Suicidal Tendencies
Unable to feel happiness
Over Fatigued
No control over emotions
Cries easily without reason
Head pains
Manic Phase Symptoms:
Overly ecstatic
Hyperactive
Insomniac
Racing ideas and Speedy thoughts
Over Spending
Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Having bipolar depression can get dangerous if left untreated. Not only to the person afflicted with the disorder but also to the people around him or her. Be sure to notice any of the mentioned above bipolar depression symptom so that immediate treatment can be given to halt bipolar depression in its tracks.
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Many people live their lives trying to be happy, going with the eternal pursuit of happiness. Some even have their idea of what happiness should be.
It could be having a wonderful family, having kids, getting a high-paying job that doesn’t require you to be at the office all the time.
The all American dream.
But some people, even though they may have all this and more can still succumb to depression. This can be because of stress, an illness, a great loss or any other causes.
Living together with a person with depression can be very hard. It may even drive you to blame yourself.
People with anxiety depression can ruin lives not necessarily their own. People around them can experience a hard time being with them.
That is why immediate treatment is necessary.
But not everyone has anxiety depression. It can just be a temporary sadness or anxiety. That is why we have to know each and every Anxiety Depression Symptom so that we can diagnose the problem properly.
Here are some of the Anxiety Depression Symptoms:
Constant anxiety attacks
Disturbed thinking
Recurring ideas of death, suicide or attempted suicide
Different sleeping patterns
Severe head aches and pains
Insomnia
Dizziness
Constant guilt
Loss of interest in previous hobbies
Hopelessness
And lots more
Every Anxiety Depression Symptom can be treated. This is not a hopeless disorder. Consulting with a specialist will be the best thing to do for proper diagnosis and treatment.