Emotional problems

Emotional problems. Withdrawal, diminished emotions and response, reduced speech. 

The clinical utility of dietary restriction of phenylalanine (200-500 mg/day of phenylalanine) is clear. Well-controlled patients have normal intelligence, although there may be an increased risk of perceptual-learning disabilities, emotional problems and subtle motor difficulties [23]. Diet therapy must probably be maintained throughout adolescence and perhaps indefinitely. Performance may deteriorate after the diet is discontinued. 

Current Options for Treatment of Behavioral and Emotional Problems... 

Agitation. Of all the behavioral and emotional problems that accompany dementia, agitation is the most troublesome. As a result, a multitude of book chapters and articles have appeared in recent years discussing precisely this problem. 

Most people tread slowly and gingerly as they take their first steps into a new world of pills and medical explanations for their emotional problems. The desperation born of intolerable pain may have melted resistance to antidepressants, but initiates into an alien psychiatric culture are justified in questioning the legitimacy of their diag-... 

Several people I interviewed had grown up in households where complaining about emotional problems was seen as whining. Parents who believed in the ethic of toughing it out and solving one s own problems usually disapproved of a son s or daughter s decision to use medication. This disapproval contributed to patients pain by making them feel misunderstood at a moment when they... 

They have cops at the exits. If they know you are skipping school, they won t let you out. So we just put two friends in the trunk and we would pull out. I start crying. I am like, I have to go home. I have emotional problems. [The police] would let us go and I would stop crying and start laughing. It was a funny experience. (Ashley freshman, aged 16)... 

The conventional therapeutic wisdom is that many emotional problems suffered by women are a consequence of their overdependence on relationships. Consequently, one purpose of therapy should be to help women become more independent. In their contrarian analysis, Jean Baker Miller and Irene Stiver maintain that such a perspective reflects a male-oriented view of human relationships. In fact, they ar-... 

Pine, D.S., Cohen, P., Brook, J. (1996) Emotional problems during youth as predictors of stature during early adulthood results from a prospective epidemiologic study. Pediatrics 97 856—863. 

Weine, A.M., Phillips, J.S., and Achenbach, T.M. (1995) Behavioral and emotional problems among Chinese and American children parent and teacher reports fot ages 6 to 13 / Abnorm Child Psychol 23 619-639. 

Psychotropic medication is meant to be used therapeutically in patients with serious emotional problems, mental disorders or with deficits in neurological or cognitive functioning. What kind of useful information can one possibly expect from experiments on subjects who do not suffer from similar symptoms or disorders As will be seen in this chapter there is indeed useful information originating from such studies, whose scientific objectives can be one or more of the following ... 

Kramer, Peter. Listening to Prozac. New York Viking, 1993. This influential book argued that Prozac, the first popular SSRI to treat depression, did more than deal with emotional problems—it also changed the personalities of many who took the drug. This led Kramer to speculate in his book about the nature of personality and self, but most took from the book that SSRIs could have amazing results and might benefit those without serious depression. The book both created controversy and contributed to the success of Prozac and other SSRIs. 

Some psychiatrists warn that Prozac is not the cure-all for emotional problems, which are usually brought on by crisis situations and not necessarily by chemical imbalances in the brain. Although Prozac is widely used, some warn that the long-term effects on the brain are not yet known. The drug should always be used under close medical supervision. 

Although the tricyclic and MAOI antidepressants cause an immediate pharmacologic action (drug reaction in the body), their clinical action (observable reaction) is delayed. This delay can last weeks or even months. This makes it difficult to use these antidepressants to treat severe depression when an immediate response is desired. The more severe cases of depression and other psychiatric and emotional problems may require other treatments in addition to the drug therapy. 

Heavy marijuana users may use marijuana to cope with emotional problems like depression and anxiety. Marijuana affects areas of the brain associated with memories, judgment, and reward. Using marijuana may exacerbate the problems the user is experiencing. 

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