Jean Carper
See book keywords and concepts |  Increasing evidence suggests the herb can also relieve some types of severe depression (not manic depression), but the research is not as extensive or firm in such cases.
¦ Take St. John's wort for at least six weeks before deciding whether it works. Quitting any earlier is too soon, since, as with other antidepressants, it will take a while for St. John's wort to produce benefits.
¦ If your depression worsens or you have suicidal impulses, or you notice severe side effects while taking St. John's wort, stop taking it and see your doctor immediately. |
Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | April, 1998: Our next generation of guinea pigs - one month before a 15 year old on Prozac, Kip Kinkel, in Springfield OR killed his parents and two classmates the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Pediatric Psychiatrists asked the FDA to consider the serotonergic antidepressants for use in children as young as two and drugs for anxiety, aggression and manic depression in babies only one month old! The use of Prozac among young children ages 6 - 12 has increased an alarming 400% from 1995 (51.000 new prescriptions) to 1996 (203,000 new prescriptions). | | Bergamot is a standard recommendation for manic depression. A combination of lemon, juniper berry, and cypress are used on the feet, over the kidneys and under the arms to assist in pulling foreign chemicals out of the body. The oils are applied to the skin after being mixed with a carrier oil such as grapeseed oil or almond oil. Or they are pumped through a diffusor, similar to an air freshener, into a room where the patient can inhale them and recuperate in the comfort of their own home. French physician Dr. |
the Editors of FC&A Medical Publishing
See book keywords and concepts |  Stoll suggests the omega-3 fatty acid in fish oil may slow down neurons in your brain, much like the drug Lithium, which is used to treat manic depression.
Another research group from England noticed depressed people had less omega-3 fatty acids in their red blood cells than healthy people. The more severe the depression, the less omega-3.
There is even evidence that EPA can help treat people with schizophrenia, a serious mental illness that can cause delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized behavior. |
Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Steroids cause other effects upon the mind such as trouble getting to sleep, terrible nightmares when they do sleep, some users hear voices, others experience a constant, nagging feeling that people are out to get them or paranoia, others experience feelings of great importance or superiority, and research and anecdotal information suggested some time ago that schizophrenia and manic depression are associated with steroid use. One man, convinced that his mind was controlling a television program he was viewing, flew into a rage when the story did not end the way he wanted it to. | | In light of the fact that cocaine is a stimulant and stimulants cause mania, the use of the drug for manic depression seems quite illogical. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) estimates that approximately six million Americans regularly use cocaine. Many athletes are tempted to use cocaine because of its a\lity to enhance performance, yet the effects are short term and the cost is great. | | In September 1998 I attended a seminar at the National Institute of Health on the effectiveness of Omega 3 oils in combating manic depression, schizophrenia, depression, hyperactivity, PMS, etc. Many researchers reported very successful results in all of these disorders using Omega 3 oils. Now a new study supports those reports. Although this study looked only at fish oil, another Omega 3 oil, flax seed oil, produces the same results and is recommended instead since it does not pose a potential toxicity - the toxicity from polluted waters in which fish are often found. |
Linda B. White, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  When dementia occurs in adults younger than 50, it may be related to any number of factors, including viral infection, syphilis, alcoholism, vitamin Bn deficiency, brain tumor, hemorrhage, blood clots, thyroid disorders, manic depression, or severe depression. In the elderly, the most common reasons for dementia are Alzheimer's disease and strokes associated with hardening of the arteries.
Because it is difficult to diagnose and treat, Alzheimer's disease is probably the most dreaded cause of memory loss. It affects up to two million Americans—nearly half of those who live to age 85. |
Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | The most prominate feature of kindling is sleep disruption and as we go into the chapter on sleep you will begin to understand that connection to each of these disorders.) manic depression or bi-polar disorder is often diagnosed after Prozac use in patients I have interviewed. Rapid cycling bipolar disorder can best be described in a patient's words to me about his Prozac experience, "I was happy one minute, horribly depressed the next minute and very angry the next, with no apparent reason for any of these feelings. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts |  Low blood levels of melatonin have been implicated in patients with manic depression and schizophrenia; in these cases, restoring patients to normal nighttime levels of melatonin reversed their disorders.33 Melatonin also helps reduce anxiety, panic disorders, and migraines, as well as inducing sleep.
Research has found thatT-helper cells contain receptors specifically designed to fit melatonin molecules. |
Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In a study from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, researchers found that omega-3s acted as mood stabilizers in people undergoing treatment for manic depression. In another study on patients with bipolar disorder, relapse rates dropped from 52 percent to 12 percent when patients supplemented with the omega-3s.
Our bodies evolved on other fats in addition to the omega-3s. All of these fats also help maintain the body's natural defenses against disease. For example, the fats found in olive oil, avocados, and nuts reduce the risk for heart disease, cancer, and premature death. |
E. D. Hirsch
See book keywords and concepts |  Paranoia, manic depression, megalomania, and schizophrenia are all psychoses. One who suffers from psychosis is psychotic. psychotherapy The use of the techniques of psychology or psychiatry or both to treat mental and emotional disorders. The term includes psychoanalysis, as well as other forms of psychological therapy.
Pygmy A member of any ethnic group in which the average height of the adult male is less than four feet, eleven inches. There are Pygmy tribes in dense rain-forest areas of central Africa, southern India, Malaysia, and the Philippines. |
Stephen Fried
See book keywords and concepts |  And for that reason, I probably tended to focus on them more than the manic depression. Diane worried that this meant I was avoiding or resisting her manic-depression diagnosis. And maybe I was. In my defense, accepting such a diagnosis is nearly as difficult for the spouse as it is for the patient. The way Diane would sometimes recount the events of the past months and angrily say, "And now I'm a person with a serious mental illness" suggested she wasn't having the easiest time with it either. We hadn't told anyone but close family about the diagnosis. |
Andrew L. Stoll
See book keywords and concepts |  Although our work is in its early stages, we have already begun the process in our patients with depression and manic depression and other psychiatric disorders, and as findings continue to come out, other medical specialties are now also exploring the power of the omega-3 essential fatty acids.
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^ When paleontologist Richard Leakey and his team discovered a two-million-year-old hominid skull, dubbed number 1470, on the eastern shore of Kenya's Lake Turkana, they helped settle one of science's most controversial issues: when and where the genus Homo had evolved. | | Her wild swings, especially manic episodes and uncontrolled bouts of anger, could be quelled by two conventional medications effective against bipolar disorder, or manic depression: lithium and Depakote. But for this patient, the cure was almost as devastating as the disease. Dull and depressed and perpetually overweight, she had trouble focusing on her work, enjoying her life, and maintaining relationships with friends. |
F. Batmanghelidj
See book keywords and concepts |  He says he started on water and salt and some vitamins, according to the instructions in the book, and within two months he was able to stop taking his lithium. He had been visiting his doctors for nine years without significant improvement, and now writes, "My LIFE has been truly ENHANCED from reading the book." 7. Feeling heavy-headed. This is the sign that the brain is commanding more circulation for its needs. It could be the heralding sensation for a migraine headache that may ensue if the increased blood flow to the brain does not result in adequate hydration of the brain cells. |
Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Bipolar depression is often referred to as manic depression.
For a complete discussion of depression and to provide a better understanding of the natural approach discussed below, please consult the chapter Depression.
Patients experiencing a manic syndrome usually require hospitalization to prevent impulsive and aggressive behavior from ruining their careers or causing injury to themselves or others. The mineral lithium has become the drug of choice for these patients. |
Peter Radetsky
See book keywords and concepts |  We treat "psychological" diseases such as depression, schizophrenia, and manic depression with drugs that affect the body; we use mind-related techniques such as biofeedback, meditation, and visualization to treat "physiological" injuries and diseases such as cancer. The line between mind and body has become irrevocably blurred.
So it's not surprising that any disease, MC S included, might have a psychological component. That is, if MCS is really and truly a disease. That is, if MC S exists at all. There is precedence for such skepticism with ill-defined problems. |
Sydney Walker III, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  A typical example of this incestuous relationship, cited in Consumer Reports, was a seminar, at the 1991 annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, that focused on the treatment of manic depression. "Despite the broad topic," the magazine reported, "the session mainly focused on the use of anticonvulsant drugs, even though the FDA has never approved them for this use." Why? Because the symposium was sponsored by the company that sold Depakote, an anticonvulsant drug. | | Friends and family aren't likely to accept schizophrenia or manic depression in the same casual way they accept a back injury or heart condition; in general, psychiatric conditions are hushed up as something shameful or embarrassing. As psychiatrist Abraham Twerski notes, in Who Says You're Neurotic?, "While people with asthma or arthritis bewail their condition (why me?), they generally do not go about feeling guilty about their misery. On the other hand, depressives not only suffer intensely but also feel profound guilt for being depressed, as if they were depressed by choice. | | Patients who have been "diagnosed" as having manic depression, anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and so on, haven't been diagnosed; they've merely been described. Such labels, as psychiatrist Matthew P. Dumont has noted, are simply a sophisticated-sounding way of making quick and superficial observations.
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Lita Lee, Lisa Turner and Burton Goldberg
See book keywords and concepts |  These included trazodone, an antidepressant that causes drowsiness, for his insomnia; lithium, for manic depression; Paxil, an antidepressant similar to Prozac; Navane? a psychotropic prescribed to control his auditory hallucinations; and Cogentin? intended to offset the many side effects of the other drugs. The medications did not seem to be helping him; in fact, their adverse reactions were adding to his suffering.
Tony's urinalysis was relatively normal, revealing only low calcium and poor kidney concentration which caused kidney pain. |
E. D. Hirsch
See book keywords and concepts | | Manic-depressive is also a descriptive term for conditions associated with manic depression. masochism (MAS-uh-kiz-uhm) Abnormal behavior characterized by deriving sexual gratification from being subjected to pain. More loosely, masochism refers to deriving any pleasure from experiencing pain. {Compare sadism.) matriarchy A family or society in which authority is held by females, through whom descent and inheritance are traced. More generally, a matriarchy is a society dominated by women. {See also matrilineal, patriarchy, patrilineal. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Tryptophan also has an antidepressant effect and is particularly effective in manic depression and depression associated with menopause. Many depressed patients have low levels of tryptophan. Tryptophan can be a useful and safe pain reliever. It has been shown most helpful for dental pain, headaches (migraines in particular), and cancer pain, often in conjunction with aspirin or acetaminophen. Tryptophan appears to increase the pain threshold. It may help treat anorexia by increasing the appetite. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
See book keywords and concepts | | Paranoia, manic depression, megalomania, and schizophrenia are all psychoses. One who suffers from psychosis is psychotic. psychotherapy The use of the techniques of psychology or psychiatry or both to treat mental and emotional disorders. The term includes psychoanalysis, as well as other forms of psychological therapy.
Pygmy A member of any ethnic group in which the average height of the adult male is less than four feet, eleven inches. There are Pygmy tribes in dense rain-forest areas of central Africa, southern India, Malaysia, and the Philippines. | | Manic-depressive is also a descriptive term for conditions associated with manic depression. masochism (mas-uh-kiz-uhm) Abnormal behavior characterized by deriving sexual gratification from being subjected to pain. More loosely, masochism refers to deriving any pleasure from experiencing pain. (Compare sadism.) matriarchy (may-tree-ahr-kee) A family or society in which authority is held by females, through whom descent and inheritance are traced. More generally, a matriarchy is a society dominated by women. (See also matrilineal, patriarchy, and patrilineal. |
Joseph Glenmullen, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In the Prozac studies, seriously depressed patients, anyone suicidal, those with other serious diagnoses (like manic depression), children, and the elderly were typically excluded—even though all these groups would be prime candidates for the drug once it was approved.
Further, the subjective diagnosis of depression was turned into a seemingly quantitative number using "instruments," which prove to be cursory, superficial checklist rating scales. | | In Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer compares life stresses, each episode of minor depression, to the scientist's needle repeatedly singeing the brain: "If we accept the analogy between mood disorders and kindled epilepsy, this is how we will see manic depression, and perhaps all depression: It is a progressive, probably lifelong disorder."30 The conclusion? Drugs should be given as early as possible to "protect" people from progression of the "disease." Proclaims Kramer, "The goal is to prevent the hard-to-reverse deterioration that occurs as the illness progresses... . | | Lewontin quotes Nobel Prize-winning biologist David Baltimore, who was aghast when a journal as prestigious as Nature was forced to retract the manic depression study because it was later found faulty.25 Asked Baltimore, "Setting myself up as an average reader of Nature, what am I to believe?"
"Nothing," answers Lewontin: The studies are propaganda in the "ideology of biological determinism. |
Earl Mindell
See book keywords and concepts |  Glycine is necessary for central nervous system function, and has been used in the treatment of manic depression, hyperactivity, and can help in preventing epileptic seizures.
Many nutritionally oriented doctors now use glycine in the treatment of hypoglycemia. (Glycine stimulates the release of glucagon, which mobilizes glycogen, which is then released into the blood as glucose.)
Additionally, it is effective as a treatment for gastric hyperacidity (and is included in many gastric antacid drugs). |
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