Mad in America
APRIL 12, 2024
My lovely psychiatrist, Dr. Volls, advised me on the concept of “mood management.” A nutrition geek and nature fanatic who loved learning about the healing power of food, I could not wrap my mind around how I needed prescriptions to balance my brain. Years later, my youngest brother was hospitalized for type 1 diabetes.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
I found a very informative letter dated years after Mom’s hospitalization addressed to her new psychiatrist. But the drugs failed to help my mother’s depression, and Dad told the doctor that “by the end of May ’59 she was so bad…I didn’t see how she could avoid hospitalization.”
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
The National Centre for PTSD attributes this to the fact that men are more likely to experience trauma, but women are more likely to develop PTSD, possibly due to higher emotional sensitivity and reactivity, which increases susceptibility to mood disorders. There have also been notable shifts in the types of traumatic events leading to PTSD.
Clear Behavioral Health
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Teach Proper Nutrition In a fast-paced world, we have become accustomed to fast food. This means understanding and educating your teen on what a balanced diet is, showing your teens quick and easy snacks that ensure they get proper nutrition, and trying to keep fresh food in the house [4].
ADDitude
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
2, 3, 4 Lifestyle factors such as nutrition, exercise, and sleep exert epigenetic changes on DNA that influence how strongly or weakly ADHD genes are expressed. People with ADHD are more likely to get into car accidents, 24 become hospitalized, and engage in self-harmthan are their neurotypical peers. years , on average.
Bullet Psych
AUGUST 12, 2022
Body weight and shape become an obsessive and all-consuming preoccupation of thoughts, behaviors, and mood. Comorbidities : 75% report lifetime mood disorder (usually MDD). Treatment 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 General approach : The primary initial goal in the treatment of anorexia nervosa is to improve their nutritional status.
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