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Caregiver Stress Syndrome Symptoms
Caregiver Stress Syndrome Symptoms This section is about the mental health needs of people who care for others with chronic or terminal illnesses. Most carers are women: wives, daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law. Caring is associated with stresses that can affect health. Yet carers’ health problems often go unnoticed because of the presence of a sick person in the home.The stresses […]
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Holiday Depression Syndrome:Post-holiday syndrome
Post-holiday syndrome Post-holiday syndrome is all kinds of physical performance of people after the big fake. For example, feeling tired after two or three days, lifting not spirit, low working efficiency of the work, people even have unexplained nausea, dizziness, gut reactions, anorexia, anxiety, neurasthenia and so on, urban white-collar clan of the main symptoms […]
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Amotivational Syndrome Cannabis
The term ‘amotivational syndrome’ was devised to describe a cluster of features associated with regular cannabis use, including: • apathy • loss of ambition • impaired concentration • deterioration in academic performance. Together, these features present as personality change, but are more likely a result of chronic intoxication. The relationship between cannabis and mental health […]
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How to remove “past-holiday syndrome”
1.Appropriate exercise cope with anorexia nervosa We always eat all day during festival celebration. Eating too much makes us easier feel full, which may cause anorexia nervosa. For those people who have anorexia nervosa, they can take some digestive pills or haw slices and have some lightmeals as much as possible. Then let intestines and […]
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Alcohol withdrawal states Withdrawal syndrome
Not every heavy drinker will suffer a withdrawal syndrome, but, for most who do, it is unpleasant Onset: three to six hours after last drink Duration: fi ve to seven days Common withdrawal symptoms: headache, nausea, vomiting, sweating and tremor. Generalised (grand mal) convulsions may occur during withdrawal Delirium tremens This occurs in about 5% […]
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Dependence syndrome
The dependence syndrome is a cluster of symptoms, not all of which need be present for a diagnosis of dependence to be made. The key feature is a compulsion to use drugs, which results in overwhelming priority being given to drug-seeking behaviour. Other features are tolerance (need to increase drug dose to achieve desired effect), […]
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