Psychological distress

Systemic therapy for acne includes antibiotics, isotretinoin and hormones (Tables 11.8 and 11.9). Oral treatment is indicated in cases of 1) moderate and severe acne 2) acne with tendency to scars development and 3) psychological distress related to acne. 

OH-DMT (Bufotenine) can cause severe physical discomfort including circulatory distress, nausea, psychological distress (panic and fear), severe skin flushing, and has the possibility of being fatal. 

Nicotine dependence a direct cause of psychological distress... 

It is the treatment of choice for severe nodulocystic acne. It can be used in patients who have failed conventional treatment as well as those who have scarring acne, chronic relapsing acne, or acne associated with severe psychological distress. 

Simultaneously during these years the progressive increase of morbidity of cardiovascular systems and psychological distresses was noted (Figure 8). 

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects 10-22% of the general population (54) and results in high health care utilization (55). The pathophysiology is not clearly defined diet, psychological distress, infection, altered mucosal immunity, visceral hypersensitivity, intestinal dysmotility, and abnormal brain-gut interactions are potential mechanisms for this disorder (56). Treatment options vary and are generally selected based on the patient s primary symptom. 

Intense psychological distress on exposure to events that symbolize or resemble the traumatic event... 

Intense psychological distress at exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event. 

Huppert FA, Whittington JE. Symptoms of psychological distress predict 7-year mortality. Psychol Med 1995 25 1073-1086. 

Chen CC, Lu FH, Wu JS, Chang CJ. Correlation between serum lipid concentrations and psychological distress. Psychiatry Res 2001 93 93-102. 

Shaver JL, Paulsen VM (1993) Sleep, psychological distress, and somatic symptoms in perimenopausal women. Fam Pract Res J 13 373-384... 

With reference to transition points in development, a negative representation of food allergy can result in psychological distress, which may accompany, or follow, transition (or sensitive) points in the developmental pathway, for example, when children learn that they (or their parents) cannot conclusively prevent an allergic reaction. 

Knibb, R. C. and Horton, S. L. (2008). Can illness perceptions and coping predict psychological distress amongst allergy sufferers Br. J. Health Psychol. 13,103-111. 

How can we prevent the crying of "wolf" and the unnecessary psychological distress caused by government actions at Love Canal and the "phantom dump " These problems are real and are described in detail in Love Canal Residents Under Stress, 208 Science, June 13, 1980 at p. 1242, which graphically discusses the psychological impacts of the uncertainty created by the muddled governmental response. 

The eye of the beholder theme echoes Diane McGuinness (1989), who has systematically debunked ADHD as the emperor s new clothes. In a chapter in The Limits of Biological Treatments for Psychological Distress, she observed,... 

Fisher, S., Greenberg, R. (1989). The limits of biological treatments for psychological distress Comparisons with psychotherapy and placebo. Hillsdale, NJ Lawrence Erlbaum. 

Singer L, Arendt R, Farkas K, Minnes S, Huang J, Yamashita T. Relationship of prenatal cocaine exposure and maternal postpartum psychological distress to child development outcome. Dev Psychopathol 1997 9 473-89. 

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