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Geen tea Camellia sinensis Reduces cancer, lowers lipid levels, helps prevent dental caries, antimicrobial and anti oxidative effects Contains caffeine (may cause mild stimulant effects such as anxiety, nervousness, heart irregularities, restlessness, insomnia, and digestive irritation) Contains caffeine and should be avoided during pregnancy, by individuals with hypertension, anxiety, eating disorders, insomnia, diabetes, and ulcers. 

Bipolar I disorder affects men and women equally bipolar II seems to be more common in women. Rapid cycling and mixed mania occur more often in women. Individuals with bipolar disorder commonly have another psychiatric disease with 78% to 85% reporting another Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) diagnosis during their lifetime. The most common comorbid conditions include anxiety, substance abuse, and eating disorders.2... 

Anorexia nervosa sufferers can exhibit sudden angry outbursts or become socially withdrawn. One in ten cases of anorexia nervosa leads to death from starvation, cardiac arrest, other medical complications, or suicide. Clinical depression and anxiety place many individuals with eating disorders at risk for suicidal behavior. 

When is medication indicated in the treatment of psychiatric illness There is no short answer to this question. At one end of the continuum, patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, and severe major depressive disorder should always be considered candidates for pharmacotherapy, and neglecting to use medication, or at least discuss the use of medication with these patients, fails to adhere to the current standard of mental health care. Less severe depressive disorders, many anxiety disorders, and binge eating disorders can respond to psychotherapy and/or pharmacotherapy, and different therapies can target distinct symptom complexes in these situations. Finally, at the opposite end of the spectrum, adjustment disorders, specific phobias, or grief reactions should generally be treated with psychotherapy alone. 

Numerous studies found that childhood sexual, physical, and emotional abuse also predisposes victims of such abuse to the development of depression in adulthood (e.g., McCauley et ah, 1997). The risk for depression increases with early onset and severity of the abuse as well as with the experience of multiple types of abuse. In addition, child abuse is related to an array of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder and PTSD (e.g., Kendler et ah, 2000). Other disorders related to childhood abuse include substance abuse, eating disorders, dissociation, and so-... 

Miller, K.B., Klump, K.L., Keel, P.K., McGue, M., and lacono, W.G. (1998) A population-based twin study of anorexia and bulimia nervosa heritability and shared transmission with anxiety disorders. Presented at the Eating Disorder Research Society Meeting, Boston, MA. 

If relapse does occur, it should first be determined whether the patient was compliant with treatment. If the patient was not compliant, antidepressant medication should resume. If the patient was compliant and had been previously responding to the medication (without significant side effects), the existence of ongoing stressors (e.g., conflict, abuse) or comorbid medical or psychiatric disorders should be considered (anxiety disorder, ADHD, substance abuse, dysthymia, bipolar disorder, eating disorder). 

In the antipressant group, 92.1% were treated with a SSRI, most commonly citalopram (47.9%) or sertraline (29.3%). The indications for prescribing antidepressants were depression in 59.2%, OCD in 29.8%, anxiety disorder in 10.7%, and eating disorder in 6.3% of those treated with an antidepressant (Sorensen et al. 2002, in press). Of the total population of 0 to 8-year-... 

Trichotillomania, listed in the DSM-IV under Impulse Control Disorders Not Elsewhere Classified ( 252), is characterized by impulses to pull out one s hair, often involving multiple sites (scalp, eyebrows, and eyelashes commonly pubic, axillary, chest, and rectal areas less commonly) ( 253). Some clinicians have proposed that this condition is a variant of OCD, based on similarities in phenomenology, family history, and response to treatment. Originally thought to occur more frequently in females, it has become evident that it may affect males just as often. Many victims of this disorder have histories beginning in childhood and refractoriness to all attempted remedies. Co-morbidity of trichotillomania with mood, anxiety, substance abuse, and eating disorders is also common (254). Others have noted that trichotillomania may also coexist with mental retardation and psychotic disorders (see Appendix Q). 

The role of medication in the treatment of bulimia nervosa seems better established than its role in the treatment of anorexia nervosa. The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for Eating Disorders ( 510) suggests that antidepressants may be useful in bulimia nervosa with or without depression. They may be particularly helpful, however, in those with depression, anxiety, obsessions, or who have failed psychosocial therapies. 

Adverse effects include constipation, dry mouth and insonmia which occur in > 10% of users. Less commonly, nausea, tachycardia, palpitations, raised blood pressure, anxiety, sweating and altered taste may occur. Blood pressure should be monitored closely throughout its use (twice weekly in the first 3 months). Contraindications include severe h3q>er-tension, peripheral occlusive arterial or coronary heart disease, cardiac arrhythmia, prostatic hypertrophy and those with severe hepatic or renal impairment. It should not be used to treat obesity of endocrine origin or those with a history of major eating disorder or psychiatric disease. Concomitant use with tricyclic antidepressants should be avoided (CNS toxicity). 

In relation to affective disorders, such as anxiety and depression, there is clinical evidence of hypersecretion of CRF. with blunted responses to CRF administration. Further, in rodents, injection of CRF into the locus coeruleus produces anxiogenic responses, and CRF receptor antagonists have an anxiolytic profile in animals. Also, eating disorders have some aetiology in common, and are often associated, with clinical depression. Anorectics, like depressives. show an attenuated ACTH response to administered CRF. Also, central administration of CRF in animals potently attenuates food consumption. This evidence suggests possible applications for CRF receptor antagonists (see below). 

Self-conscious anxiety, associated with the developmental changes just described, can be exacerbated by parental over-concern, particularly by mothers. Such over-concern occurs more frequently in mothers who themselves have, or have had, an eating disorder or who have been obese. As most family studies have been correlational, it is difficult to know whether family dysfunction contributes to the eating disorder, whether the distortions of eating behaviour in the affected daughter causes the family dysfunction, or whether some common other factor contributes to both (Polivy and Herman 2002). 

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