Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 In fact, of 500 patients coming to the doctor with a new medical complaint, half had physical illness alone with no additional psychiatric problem, 20 percent had physical complaints plus pretty obvious underlying psychiatric disorders (but which were not the reason for the patient's visit), and the rest had psychiatric disorders that were the primary reason for the visit or that were consequences of the primary physical illness. In other words, there was a disconnect between patients and doctors. |
Marshall Editions
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 Excessive sweating can also be a symptom of an underlying condition, such as hyperthyroidism, psychiatric disorders, menopause, or obesity. These causes must first be ruled out before treatment can begin.
SYMPTOMS
TREATMENT GOAL
• Excessive sweating
To establish the cause of excessive sweating, whether due to hyperhidrosis or another condition. Treatment involves decreasing the amount of sweat produced, replacing any fluids and other nutrients lost through sweating, and easing any feelings of embarrassment brought on by this ailment. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Mood-Stabilizing Agents
Mood-stabilizing agents are used conventionally in the treatment of epilepsy, but they may also be effective in the stabilization of mood in patients with psychiatric disorders, especially patients with bipolar disorder.
Bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic-depressive disorder) is a condition that affects more than 2 million Americans. People who have this illness tend to experience extreme mood swings, along with other specific symptoms and behaviors. These mood swings, or "episodes," can take three forms: manic episodes, depressive episodes, or "mixed" episodes. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 But it's hard to imagine that the incredible increase in psychiatric prescriptions for teenagers and children is due entirely to an epidemic of psychiatric disorders, that some combination of bad parenting, bad genes, and bad videos has created an entire nation of screwed-up kids. We're also in the midst of an epidemic of diagnoses, in which children who exhibit behavior that is even mildly out of the norm are labeled and treated, along with the kids who are truly mentally ill. The question is, why are we now so quick to diagnose mental illness? |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 A review of herbal medicines for psychiatric disorders. Psychiatr Serv 51(9): 1130-1134. 2000.
Beckman SE, Sommi RW, Switzer J. Consumer use of St. John's Wort: A survey "on effectiveness, safety, and tolerability. Pharmacotherapy 20(5):568-574. 2000.
Beer AM, Ostermann T. Cyclosporine interaction with St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) increases the risk of graft rejection and causes a raise of the daily medication costs. Med Klinik 96(8):480-484. 2001.
Behnke K, Jensen GS, Graubaum HJ, et al: Hypericum perforatum versus fluoxetine in the treatment of mild to moderate depression. |
Charles Barber
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 Anything that can be done to raise awareness and engagement in treatment of psychiatric disorders is therefore crucial. After all, even if we had the best possible medications and treatments, they would be useless if people were not sufficiently motivated to embrace them. ("You can lead a horse to water . ..")
When I was first exposed to the Stages of Change model, the experience was like the proverbial light going on. I was working in my first year as a case manager at an agency providing supportive housing for the homeless mentally ill. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 For example, hypohidrosis and anhidrosis—which can affect small or large areas of the body—can be a reaction to a number of medications, especially antihistamines or the drugs used to treat excessive sweatangina, psychiatric disorders, and tify us, according to a recent study in muscle cramps can cause these Austria. The researchers also found that nonexistent sweating can be evidence of damage to sweat glands from burns and other injuries, as well as various skin diseases. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| Data such as these make it clear that medically unexplained symptoms and major psychiatric disorders such as depression often go hand in hand. For psychiatrists, these studies may seem to indicate that the physical symptoms—pain, fatigue, and others— are nothing more than an extension of the "real" problem: depression. Unable to express the underlying psychiatric disorder, this reasoning goes, the patient creates somatic complaints instead. Psychologists call this unique personality characteristic alexithymia. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Consider also those who suffer from depression, bipolar disease, or other psychiatric disorders. The risks of medicines used to treat these diseases, such as Ritalin, Prozac, and Zyprexa, should be weighed against the use of older, proven drugs. Impotence, male and female, is currently a "hot" area for pharmaceuticals. The new pills created to combat these "diseases" are so lucrative that risks for the patient are of only minimal importance.
Arthritis, chronic bowel syndrome, social anxiety disorder, baldness... |
Shannon Brownlee
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| A slim little volume in 1980 that listed 226 diag-nosable conditions, the manual had swelled to a weighty tome by 1994 and included 365 psychiatric disorders. As new conditions are added to the manual and the diagnostic criteria for those that already exist are expanded, the number of Americans who are diagnosed as mentally ill—and treated for it—continues to grow. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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| In some people, the phantom odors may signal schizophrenia or other psychiatric disorders. In these cases, the sufferers are likely to have visual and auditory hallucinations or other serious psychiatric signs as well.
Like hypersensitivity to smell, phantom odors, dysosmia, and ca-cosmia can be normal signs of pregnancy. But if you're not pregnant, they may signal epilepsy. Indeed, some people experience an odor aura just before a seizure. Interestingly, distorted or odd odors, as well as phantom odors, also can be signs of a certain type of epilepsy in which no seizures occur. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Avoid large doses in cases of epilepsy or psychiatric disorders.
Range and Appearance
Native to the Indonesian Molucca Islands, nutmeg is not technically a nut but a single seed contained by a yellow fleshy fruit. Mace is the arillus, a thin, leathery, orangish red membrane between the kernel and pulp of the fruit. The nutmeg tree is an evergreen that can grow to 70 feet in height. It has smooth, greyish brown bark and oblong, brownish leaves. The tree thrives in hot, humid climates with well-drained soil and partial shade.
OAT
Botanical Name
Avena fatua (wild oat), A. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 He warned that until their severe blood sugar fluctuations are stabilized, alcoholics will be predisposed to depression and what appears to be "deep-rooted emotional or psychiatric disorders."
Meanwhile, bear in mind that "drinking, especially binge drinking, also can cause low blood sugar because your body's breakdown of alcohol interferes with your liver's efforts to raise blood glucose," according to the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC) website. What's more, hypoglycemia "caused by excessive drinking can be very serious and even fatal. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 Psychiatric Disorders: Vitamin B-12 is involved in the synthesis of serotonin, and serotonin dysfunction is associated with many psychiatric disorders. Another conceivable benefit from supplementing with vitamin B12 is the resulting increase in the amount of vitamin B-12 that would gain entrance into the central nervous system (CNS). In a study involving 13 patients (29-50 years of age) with neurasthenia (characterized by profound fatigue, depression, and anxiety), the vitamin B-12 levels were assessed in both the serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). |
Charles Barber
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| But now CBT is the most empirically validated psychotherapy in the world—about four hundred outcome trials have shown its efficacy for a broad range of psychiatric disorders, as well as for medical disorders with psychological components.2
The trick is absolute directness. One of the "cardinal" questions of CBT, according to Judy Beck, Aaron's daughter, who now runs the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research in suburban Philadelphia, is simply: "What was just going through your mind? |
| Only forty years ago, psychiatric disorders were overwhelmingly considered a product of bad mothering, poor adjustment, repressed sexuality, and poor attachments to others. Not genes and chemicals, but nurture and environmental explanations of mental predicaments ruled the day. And until quite recently, biological psychiatry was often seen as totalitarian and ruthless in its oppressive force. If one didn't comply with the rules of society or rules of the wards, one was shocked into compliance—or, at the very least emasculated. (Think A Clockwork Orange and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. |
| In recent years, he has been evaluating CBT for schizophrenia and for the prevention of suicidal behavior, among other psychiatric disorders.
Beck ultimately came to the conclusion that psychoanalysis was a "faith-based therapy." Armed with now hundreds of studies, Beck can claim CBT as an empirical therapy. My personal view of psychoanalysis is that just because it is essentially devoid of a research basis does not mean that is not useful for some people. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Unchecked, hemochromatosis can lead to liver failure, heart failure, diabetes, arthritis, infertility, psychiatric disorders, and even cancer. Unchecked, hemochromatosis will lead to death.
For more than 125 years after Armand Trousseau first described it in 1865, hemochromatosis was thought to be extremely rare. Then, in 1996, the primary gene that causes the condition was isolated for the first time. Since then, we've discovered that the gene for hemochromatosis is the most common genetic variant in peopie of Western European descent. |
Mark Sircus
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 Despite a dramatic increase in treatment of psychiatric disorders during the past 10 years, there has been no decrease in the rate of suicidal thoughts and behavior among adults, according to a federal study primarily funded by the National Institute of Mental Health.
The Washington Post
June, 2005
Though it is a complex matrix of causes that cuts across physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels of being - it's arguable that a significant portion of the blame for violence and depression can be laid on nutritional causes which are the easiest to correct. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 Geomagnetic disturbance also seemed to correlate with increases in general psychiatric disorders.19 Even those already suffering from mental illness get more agitated during magnetically stormy days.
Persinger grew intrigued by a possible relationship between geomagnetic fluctuations in the Earth and the timing of epileptic seizures, after his neu-roscientist colleague Todd Murphy, who had temporal-lobe epilepsy as a child, disclosed that he often had out-of-body experiences while having a seizure. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Depression and other psychiatric disorders can have significant consequences if not appropriately treated. Antidepressant medications benefit many patients, but it is important that doctors and patients are aware of the risks."
People currently prescribed antidepressant medications should not stop taking them. Those who have concerns should notify their health care providers.
The proposed labeling changes apply to the entire category of antidepressants. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Herbal medicines in the treatment of psychiatric disorders: a systematic review. Phytother Res. 2007 Jun 11; [Epub ahead of print]
Shetsov VA, Zholus BI, Shervarly VI, et al. A randomized trial of two different doses of a SHR-5 Rhodiola rosea extract versus placebo and control of capacity for mental work. Phytomedicine; 10: 95-105. 2003.
Spasov AA, Mandrikov VB, Mironova IA. [The effect of the preparation rodakson on the psychophysiological and physical adaptation of students to an academic load] Eksp Klin Farmakol. 2000 Jan-Feb;63(l):76-8. Russian.
Spasov AA, Wikman GK, Mandrikov VB, et al. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Central Nervous System
There is evidence that patients with celiac disease have increased rates of both neurologic and psychiatric disorders. Their associations are not always clear: Some symptoms can be attributed to nutritional deficiencies; others perhaps related to autoimmunity; and many are hypothesized to be due to yet-unproven pathways by which gluten may cross the blood-brain barrier and interact with endogenous neurotransmitter receptors. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| Depression and certain other psychiatric disorders are themselves associated with increases in the risk of suicide. Patients of all ages who are started on antidepressant therapy should be monitored appropriately and observed closely. Families and caregivers should discuss with the doctor any observation of worsening of depression symptoms, suicidal thinking and behavior, or unusual changes in behavior. PROZAC is approved for use in pediatric patients (children and adolescents) with MDD or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
WHAT SHOULD I TALK TO MY DOCTOR OR PHARMACIST ABOUT? |
| In clinical studies, antidepressants increased the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children, adolescents, and young adults with depression and other psychiatric disorders. Anyone considering the use of PROZAC or any other antidepressant in a child, adolescent, or young adult must balance this risk with the clinical need. Short-term studies did not show an increase in the risk of sui-cidality with antidepressants compared to placebo in adults beyond age 24; there was a reduction in risk with antidepressants compared to placebo in adults aged 65 and older. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The logic of psychiatry goes like this: ADHD is a real disease because it's in the DSIM-IV manual (the bible of fictitious psychiatric disorders). ADHD is listed in the DSIM-IV because it's a real disease according to a group of Big Pharma-funded psychiatrists who made it up. Thus, ADHD is real because psychiatrists say is it! (See our related cartoon, Disease Mongers, Inc., to see a humorous depiction of this process.)
Treating children like guinea pigs
Nobody knows the long-term effects of Ritalin use on children. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| I believe that if we had more humanistic counseling, classes in how to deal with life issues, and better support systems around these issues, we would not need the pharmaceutical-medical model that claim these are psychiatric disorders that require treatment.
Writer Peggy Ramundo is quite correct when she says that the general public usually associates Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with "hyperactive boys hanging from the light fixtures, running their parents and their teachers ragged." However, as she explains as coauthor of book You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! |
| The whole idea of supplying a precursor to build up a neurotransmitter that is in short supply is a fruitful approach to treating psychiatric disorders and should, in my opinion," concluded Dr. Atkins, "be considered before the use of nonphysiologic psychotropic drugs, which have more potential for toxicity."
Acupuncturists also have had a great deal of success with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In some situations, their treatment has proven to be more effective than medication. |
| Also in 2005, FDA began a comprehensive review of 295 individual antidepressant trials that included over 77,000 adult patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and other psychiatric disorders, to examine the risk of suicidality in adults who are prescribed antidepressants.
In December 2006, FDA's Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee agreed that labeling changes were needed to inform health care professionals about the increased risk of suicidality in younger adults using antidepressants. |
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