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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
1,578 wordsEach year millions of people in the United States are affected by serious and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders. The vast majorities are adolescents and young adult women. Approximately one percent of adolescent girls develop anorexia nervosa, a dangerous condition in which they can literally starve themselves to death. Another two to three percent develop bulimia nervosa, a destructive pattern of excessive overeating followed by vomiting or other " purging " behaviors to control their...
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Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Electro Convulsive Therapy
1,616 wordsIntroduction Description A depressive disorder is a whole-body illness, involving your body, mood, and thoughts. It affects the way you eat and sleep, the way you feel about yourself, and the way you think about things. A depressive disorder is not the same as a passing blue mood. It is not a sign of personal weakness or a condition that can be willed or wished away. People with a depressive illness cannot merely "pull themselves together" and get better. Without treatment, symptoms can last for...
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Antidepressant Medications Blood Pressure
698 wordsThe most outstanding behavior seen in an anorexic includes a conservative rigidity, outward compliance toward others alternating with temper-tantrum behavior, and repetitious patterns normal in the infant and toddler but not in the adolescent (Levenkron 3 - 4). Anorexics also have peculiar behavior with food. Some prepare elaborate meals for families, but eat nothing themselves, or they toy with food on their plate and eventually throw the whole meal away (Marx 51). Depending on which perspectiv...
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Analysis Treatment Of Bulimia And Anorexia Part 2
1,791 words... have eating disorders have similar personality traits, including a low self-esteem, feelings of helplessness, and a feeling of becoming fat. In eating disorders, it looks as though eating disorders develop as a way of handling stress and anxieties. Anorexics are usually all around good people. They rarely ever disobey authority, tend to be perfectionists, and are often good students and athletes. It is believed that anorexic people restrict food to feel in control of at least one area of the...
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Type Of Therapy Anorexia Nervosa
2,834 wordsEating Disorders At least 2 million female Americans have a clinically relevant eating disorder. Diagnosable eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, are not uncommon, occurring in approximately three percent of the United States female population. Many people with eating disorders do not recognize that they have a problem and never seek help (Segall, 22). In this paper I am going to evaluate the issue from different perspectives and determine how eating disorders influenc...
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Selective Serotonin Antidepressant Medications
563 wordsGenerally, depression is regarded as an illness due to an imbalance of serotonin in the brain. When seen as such, depression can no longer be considered a? mental illness, ? but instead must be categorized with physical illnesses that also have causes, symptoms, and remedies. There are also various types of depression, including Dysthymia, Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD, and Bipolar disorder, which is also called manic depression 1. These types all differ slightly in the severity of their sy...
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Symptoms Of Depression Children And Adolescents
1,836 wordsEach year some thirty thousand Americans die by their own hand, most of them as a result of depression or bipolar. The true figure is probably many times higher. Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tend to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Therefore, it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adolescent suicide is now responsible for more deaths in youth? s aged 15 to ...
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