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When are injections needed in the treatment of mental illness?
Injections have a very limited role in the treatment of mental illness. Besides thesesituations, it is advisable not to use injections in the treatment of mental illness. Avoid usingunnecessary injections such as vitamins for complaints of tiredness and weakness, which areoften the result of a common mental disorder rather than a vitamin deficiency. The diagrams […]
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Treatment efficacy: phobias
Roth and Fonagy in their comprehensive review of anxiety disorders and ‘what works for whom?’ concluded: ‘There is little justification for using anything other than exposure treatments for specific phobias’. Undoubtedly, the most efficacy as demonstrated through randomized controlled treatment trials come from behaviour therapy using exposure and cognitive techniques. Such treatments can vary in […]
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Standard treatment of depression
The NICE Guidelines on depression recommend self-help first (Step 1), with counselling as the next intervention (Step 2), with possibly some anti-depressant medication as well (Step 3) in slightly more severe cases These first three steps cover most people with depression. The usual treatment for depression (once it has been identified) is therefore often a […]
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Dissociative Identity Disorder Treatment Methods
Treatment of DID Not surprisingly, protagonists for and against the concept of DID have differing ideas about its treatment. Spanos, for example, contended that the goal of treatment is to help clients accept that their alter identities are real personalities rather than self-generated fantasies. By contrast, Gleaves contended that the opposite is true. He argued […]
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Treatmenting post-traumatic stress disorder
Treatmenting post-traumatic stress disorder:Preventing PTSD by psychological debriefing Psychological debriefi ng is a single-session interview conducted immediately following a traumatic event intended to help those involved cope with their emotional responses to the trauma and prevent the development of PTSD. It involves encouraging the individual to talk through the event and their emotional reactions to […]
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Cognitive behavioural treatment for bipolar disorder
The biological model of bipolar disorder has been dominant for some years, and it is only recently that attempts to change the course of the disorder using cognitive behavioural methods have been attempted. The main psychotherapeutic approach has involved the use of psychoeducational programmes to prepare people to cope with relapse. In one evaluation of […]
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Self-Help Treatment for Depression
There are a number of simple suggestions for self-help for depression. Remember that self-help is the first essential step of any treatment plan for depression, so you might just want to try out some of these to see if they help. However, it is the hardest thing in the world to change your life around […]
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Atypical depression natural treatment
The NICE Guidelines on depression recommend self-help first (Step 1), with counselling as the next intervention (Step 2), with possibly some anti-depressant medication as well (Step 3) in slightly more severe cases These first three steps cover most people with depression. The usual treatment for depression (once it has been identified) is therefore often a […]
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Seasonal Affective Disorder Treatment Natural
Symptoms of seasonal affective disorder include typical (low mood and energy) and atypical (increased appetite and sleep) depressive features occurring together in a seasonal pattern. Estimates of prevalence of the disorder in the UK average about 2.5% of the population. A mechanism for the seasonal variation in mood may involve effects of light levels on […]
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Treatment of Depression during Pregnancy
Depressive disorders are common in women of childbearing age, and postpartum depression is a serious complication of childbearing. The possibility of pregnancy should be considered in any pre-menopausal woman for whom antidepressant treatment is contemplated. As many pregnancies are unplanned and unintended, contraceptive advice should be given at the outset of treatment and reviewed often, […]
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