Depression is the medical condition with one of the highest prevalence rates, but also one of the costliest ones in terms of human suffering, missed work hours, higher mortality and the higher incidence of physical illnesses. First-line treatment is usually a combination of medication and psychotherapy. In milder cases, psychotherapy alone may be sufficient, while …
Panic attacks can interfere greatly with a patient’s social, professional and personal life. The first-line treatment is usually a combination of psychotherapy and medication. Medication broadly addresses two time horizons. In the short-run, benzodiazepines or benzodiazepine-like drugs reduces anxiety within twenty minutes to an hour, which is too long to treat an acute panic attack …
This article gives a brief overview of the main groups of psychiatric medication. Keywords: medication, psychiatry Click here for the article: A Brief Overview of Psychiatric Medication (3) Ch Jonathan Haverkampf This article is solely a basis for academic discussion and no medical advice can be given in this article, nor …
Relationships are repeat interactions between individuals that have a benefit in themselves. They can take many forms, such as romantic or business relationships. Since humans strive for meaning, or resonance with what they value and is important to them, relationships flourish if everyone in the relationship can see meaning in it. To make a relationship …
Bipolar disorder is a condition affecting an individual’s affective states (mood). The different flavors of bipolar disorder have in common that there are alterations in mood between above ‘normal’ (hypomania, mania) and normal or below normal (melancholia, depression). The other important mood disorders are the various types of depression, while mania without episodes of depressions …
