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Alcohol abuse; Depression, anxiety, and fear of things that are not usually frightening to other people (phobia), may be part of this disorder; Drug abuse.
Source:ADAM
Date:May 21, 2008
Trauma survivors who receive critical incident stress debriefing as soon as possible after the event have the best prognosis for full recovery. For patients who develop full-blown PTSD, a combination of peer-group meetings and individual psychothe...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
The severity of the illness depends in part on whether the trauma was unexpected, the severity of the trauma, how chronic the trauma was (such as for victims of sexual abuse), and the person's inherent personality and genetic make-up. With appropr...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
The severity of PTSD depends in part on the predictability of the trauma; its severity; its duration and chronicity; the role of human intention in inflicting the trauma; and the patient's personality style, overall state of health, and genetic pr...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, is the most commonly used drug in the world. Pharmacologically, alcohol is classified as a central nervous system depressant.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Alcoholism is defined as alcohol seeking and consumption behavior that is harmful. Long-term and uncontrollable harmful consumption can cause alcohol-related disorders that include: antisocial personality disorder , mood disorders (bipolar and major depression) and anxiety disorders.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Stress can come from any situation or thought that makes you feel frustrated, angry, or anxious. What is stressful to one person is not necessarily stressful to another. Anxiety is a feeling of apprehension or fear. The source of this uneasiness is not always known or recognized, which can add to the distress you feel.
Source:ADAM
Date:July 27, 2007
History Generalised anxiety disorder is a relatively recent diagnosis. Before 1980 it was subsumed under the label of anxiety neurosis, a disorder first delineated by Freud in 1894 1 and characterised by persistent feelings of unattached fearfulness described as free-floating anxiety. 1 However, the disorder described by Freud also included the symptom of panic, and when panic disorder was subsequently identified as a separate illness by Klein, 2 the part of anxiety neurosis that did not include panic became known as generalised anxiety disorder.
Source:Elsevier
Anxiety is a bodily response to a perceived threat or danger. It is triggered by a combination of biochemical changes in the body, the patient ' s personal history and memory, and the social situation.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Anxiety is normally a helpful emotion that rouses the individual to action and alerts the individual to danger. Everyone has anxiety; it is common to feel anxiety before a ?first date,? when beginning a new job, or before an examination.
Source:Elsevier
Anxiety is a multisystem response to a perceived threat or danger. It reflects a combination of biochemical changes in the body, the patient ' s personal history and memory, and the social situation.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Anxiety is a multisystem response to a perceived threat or danger. It reflects a combination of biochemical changes in the body, the patient's personal history and memory , and the social situation at hand.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Anxiety is a condition of persistent and uncontrollable nervousness, stress, and worry that is triggered by anticipation of future events, memories of past events, or ruminations over day-to-day events, both trivial and major, with disproportionate fears of catastrophic consequences. Stimulated by real or imagined dangers, anxiety affects people of all ages and social backgrounds.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
A condition of persistent nervousness, stress, and worry that is triggered by anticipation of future events, memories of past events, or ruminations about the self Stimulated by real or imagined dangers, anxiety affects people of all ages and social backgrounds. When it occurs in unrealistic situations or with unusual intensity, it can disrupt everyday life.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
A common disorder infrequently diagnosed Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a common and often chronic disorder, with an estimated lifetime prevalence rate of 5.7% in the general population, but it is often overlooked and undertreated. 1 Why should this be so? Comorbid disorders motivate help-seeking The core symptoms of GAD are chronic worry and tension.
Source:Elsevier
Depression may be described as feeling sad, blue, unhappy, miserable, or down in the dumps. Most of us feel this way at one time or another for short periods. But true clinical depression is a mood disorder in which feelings of sadness, loss, anger, or frustration interfere with everyday life for an extended time. See also depression in the elderly and adolescent depression .
Source:ADAM
Date:January 28, 2008
Depression, also known as depressive disorders or unipolar depression, is a mental illness characterized by a profound and persistent feeling of sadness or despair and/or a loss of interest in things that once were pleasurable. Disturbance in sleep, appetite, and mental processes are a common accompaniment.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Depression is sometimes referred to as the common cold of mental illness. It is a debilitating disease with significant societal costs.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
The legal termination of a marriage. The unprecedented rise in the U.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Divorce is the legal termination of a marriage. More than 1 million children each year experience their parents ' divorce.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Drug abuse is the use of illicit drugs, or the abuse of prescription or over-the-counter drugs. The abuse of legitimate drugs (prescription or over-the-counter) can be done by using the drugsin a manner or in quantities other than directed, or for purposes other than legitimate purposes. See also drug abuse first aid and drug abuse and dependence .
Source:ADAM
Date:February 6, 2008
Medication abuse occurs when patients do not take medication in the prescribed manner, when they use other people ' s medication, or when they combine prescribed medication with over-the counter, traditional, or herbal medicines. Such medication misuse among the elderly is responsible for one out of every ten dollars spent in the health care systems of North America.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Public health has an opportunity to address the issues of substance use, abuse, and dependency across all age groups in the community since it occurs in all age groups. Substance abuse prevention and treatment professionals are acutely aware that alcohol and other drugs have a destructive impact on a person ' s physical, mental, and social development.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Substance abuse is a pattern of behavior that displays many adverse results from continual use of a substance. Substance dependence is a group of behavioral and physiological symptoms that indicate the continual, compulsive use of a substance in self-administered doses despite the problems related to the use of the substance.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Substance abuse is a pattern of drug, alcohol or other substance use that creates many adverse results from its continual use. The characteristics of abuse are a failure to carry out obligations at home or work, continual use under circumstances that present a hazard (such as driving a car), and legal problems such as arrests.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Substance abuse is a maladaptive pattern of alcohol or other drug use that causes social, physical, legal, vocational, or educational distress or impairment. In addition to those trained specifically as substance abuse counselors, mental health and rehabilitation counselors work with individuals who abuse alcohol and other drugs.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Substance abuse and dependence refer to any continued pathological use of a medication, non-medically indicated drug (called drugs of abuse), or toxin. Although there are on-going debates on the exact distinctions between substance abuse and substance dependence, the current practice standard- distinguishes between the two by defining substance dependence in terms of physiological and behavioral symptoms of substance use, and substance abuse in terms of the social consequences of substance use.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Substance abuse is the continued compulsive use of mind-altering substances despite personal, social, and/or physical problems caused by the substance use. Abuse may lead to dependence, in which increased amounts are needed to achieve the desired effect or level of intoxication and the patient ' s tolerance for the drug increases.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is the U.S.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
The term " eating disorders " encompasses a group of problems that fall into two broad categories- overeating (binging), and undereating (anorexia)- sometimes referred to as " starving or stuffing. " Eating disorders are most commonly found in young females during early adolescence.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Eating disorders are characterized by an obsessive preoccupation with food and/or body weight. Eating disorders are rooted in complex emotional issues that center on self-esteem and pervasive societal messages that equate thinness with happiness.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Eating disorders affect both the mind and the body. Although deviant eating patterns have been reported throughout history, eating disorders were first identified as medical conditions by the British physician William Gull in 1873.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Well Being
The female athlete triad is a common nutritional disorder among female athletes caused by the drive of girls and women to be unrealistically thin in an attempt to improve performance. The disorder is most common in sports judged by build (e.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Well Being
A phobia is a persistent and irrational fear of a particular type of object, animal, activity or situation.
Source:ADAM
Date:November 15, 2006
A phobia is an intense but unrealistic fear that can interfere with the ability to socialize, work, or go about everyday life, brought on by an object, event or situation. Just about everyone is afraid of something- an upcoming job interview or being alone outside after dark.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
An intense, irrational, persistent fear that interferes with normal functioning or creates significant distress. Ordinary fears are a normal part of childhood and can actually help children work through certain developmental issues.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
A phobia is an intense and unrealistic fear brought on by an object, event, or situation, which can interfere with the ability to socialize, work, or go about everyday life. Almost all children develop specific fears at some age.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
A phobia is an intense, unrealistic fear, which can interfere with the ability to socialize, work, or go about everyday life, that is brought on by an object, event or situation. Just about everyone is afraid of something- an upcoming job interview or being alone outside after dark.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Specific phobia is a type of disorder in which the affected individual displays a marked and enduring fear of specific situations or objects. Individuals with specific phobias experience extreme fear as soon as they encounter a defined situation or object, a phobic stimulus.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
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