Mental ailments

Research into the benefits of drug therapy in clinical settings for the treatment of psychosis, schizophrenia, and other mental ailments was in large part responsible for the widespread use of MDMA during its introduction. The empathic properties associated with MDMA, giving users a sense of heightened emotional attachment and connectedness, made its use very intriguing for psychotherapists. 

Depression and cognitive decline are the two most common mental ailments that are treated with nutraceuticals. The most commonly available products for mental health include SAMe, DHEA, soy isofiavones, acetyl-L-carnitine, and n-3-fatty acids, particularly DHA. 

In contrast to panic disorder, the somewhat more subtle and persistent symptoms of GAD do not always command immediate attention. Although patients with GAD may present with a primary complaint of anxiety, they are more likely to complain of a physical ailment or another psychiatric condition or symptoms, for example, depression or insomnia. As such, many patients with GAD will seek treatment from a primary care physician long before recognizing the need for mental health care despite readily acknowledging that they have been anxious virtually all of their lives. 

In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, hallucinogenic substances were viewed as possible tools for understanding and treating psychiatric and other mental disorders. Tribal medicine men, or shamans, have always maintained it was an effective medicine to treat a number of ailments including alcoholism. However, peyote did not really catch on as a drug to be explored in the recreational arena until 1953 when the English novelist Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) wrote The Doors of Perception where he recounted his experiences with the peyote. 

Besides research into the physical causes and mechanisms of MCS, research has also been conducted into the mental aspects of MCS. Almost everyone (including those who argue that MCS is a physiological syndrome) agrees that people with MCS may also suffer from mental, cognitive and emotional ailments such as depression, confusion, etc. 

Once such a diagnosis has been entered into your medical files, you won t easily get it removed and you can take it for granted that future vague ailments may also be interpreted as signs of a mental problem. This, of course, doesn t get you anywhere. 

Because mescaline lodges for the most part in the liver, some concern has been expressed about its use by those with liver ailments. It is worth noting that during the 1950s and 1960s this drug was given to a number of alcoholic mental patients, many of whom had severely diseased livers, with little untoward effect. 

Branched-chain ketoaciduria (commonly known as Maple Syrup Urine Disease MSUD) is another ailment that may be caused by thiamine deficiency. In MSUD, the oxidative decarboxylation of alpha-keto acids derived from, i.e. valine, isoleucine, and leucine, is blocked due to an inadequate supply of the coenzyme thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP). Clinical symptoms of MSUD include mental and physical retardation. Describe briefly the structure of Riboflavin (Vitamin B-2) and its biochemical role. 

From a homeopathic view this is not advisable unless the spagyric tincture is one that will treat a specific weakness or ailment. When choosing a herb for this work, be sure that you choose the right one. A homeopath should be able to help you there through diagnosis of your physical, mental and emotional health. 

To validate the disease status of mental illness, psychiatrists resort to three overlapping claims, interpretations, or, perhaps most precisely, strategies. They are. (1) Mental illnesses are brain diseases. (2) Mental illnesses are real diseases, manifested by abnormal behaviors. (3) The term disease identifies the physician s perception of the patient s ailment, whereas the term illness identifies the patient s perception of it, in effect abolishing the possibility of distinguishing between sign and symptom, objective evidence of illness and subjective complaint. I shall briefly review the first and second views in this chapter, and consider the third, which pertains more to a philosophical than to a psychological analysis of the concept of disease, in the next chapter. 

Natural resources have been early used by primitive people to enhance physical and mental abilities, to treat common ailments (fever, poisoning, animal biting, or parasitic infection), and later when agricultural practices were developed, to protect their crops. 

One of the oldest theories of the causes of mental illness, propounded by Hippocrates and other physicians from Greek and Roman societies, postulated that imbalances of substances in the body, called humors, were responsible for emotional maladies, many of which resembled the major mental disorders described in American Psychiatric Association s diagnostic manual. More specifically, Hippocrates posited that disease and mental illness were caused by surpluses or deficiencies in the four humors phlegm, yellow bile, black bile, and sanguine. For example, people with too much black bile were thought to be melancholic (very sad) those with too much yellow bile were thought to be irritable. For nearly 2,000 years (from ancient times until the nineteenth century), bloodletting to restore humoral balance was a common treatment for mental illness and other ailments. 

Vincamine is effective in treating ailments related to central nervous system, cardiovascular system, and on the vessels of the brain. It is used to treat hypertension, vertigo, transient ischemic deficits, headache, and age-related neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson s, Alzheimer s, and Huntington s diseases, and improve memory, mental productivity, and concentration [38-45]. 

The disease is characterized by a decreased mental acuity. There is increased forgetfulness, failing judgment, a decreased capacity to do simple calculations, and sometimes a disorientation in time and place. The ailment is more prevalent in middle-aged women than in men, but may occur occasionally at an earlier age. In many cases it does not appear until the individual reaches the 70s. 

A derangement of function an abnormal physical or mental condition sickness, ailment, malady. 

Being generally prone to having accidents is caused by a general lack of focus or awareness. This condition is more of a mental state and can usually be corrected with the right treatment. Many people with back ailments or other physical ailments never seem to be totally cured. Even after back operations, physical therapy, back braces, and full releases to regular duty, some people still have back pain and trouble with their back. For some this weakness or trouble with their back seems to last their whole lives. 

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