22: Drugs For Depression, Anxiety & Psychosis

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Antidepressant drug

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A drug used to treat symptoms of depression

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Anti-anxiety drug

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A drug that ease anxiety

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Antipsychotic drug

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A drug used to treat psychosis, also called major tranquilizers

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Anxiety

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Hey multisymptom response sometimes described as a feeling of dread about a perceived threat or danger thought to be unique to humans

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Benzodiazepine

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A type of drug commonly used to treat anxiety, produce sedation, or relax muscles

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Bipolar disorder

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He psychiatric disorder characterized by alternating episodes of mania and depression

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Depression

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And illness characterized by feelings of sadness, despair, loss of energy, and difficulty dealing with normal daily life

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Delusions

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Fixed false beliefs or opinions that are held despite a lack of supporting evidence and are resistant to reason or fact

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Dysthymia

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A chronic but less severe form of depression that is characterized by moods that are persistently low

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Generalized anxiety disorder or GAD

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Excessive, almost daily anxiety and worry for longer than six months

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Hallucinations

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The perception of something such as sounds or visual images that are not actually present except in the mind, they may involve sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch

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Illusions

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Incorrect mental representations of misinterpreted even such as hearing the food cart coming down the hall and believing it is a stampede of animals

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Major depression

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A disabling mental disorder marked by a persistent low mood, lack of pleasure in life, and increased risk of suicide, which is diagnosed based on the presence of symptoms of depression for two or more weeks

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Mania

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And extremely elevated mood state that occurs as part of bipolar disorder and is characterized by mental and physical hyperactivity and possibly psychosis

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder OCD

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A secret trick disorder characterized by obsessive thoughts and compulsive actions such as cleaning, checking, accounting, or hoarding

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Panic disorder

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And anxiety disorder characterized by a text of anxiety or terror, often but not always occurring unexpectedly and without reason and lasting 15 to 30 minutes

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Posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD

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An anxiety disorder caused by serious dramatic events, characterized by symptoms of survivor guilt, reliving the trauma and dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or re-current intrusive thoughts and images

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Psychosis

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And illness that prevent a person from being able to distinguish between the real world and the imaginary world, commonly includes delusions or hallucinations

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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor’s SSRIs

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Antidepressant drugs that act by blocking the reuptake of serotonin, making more serotonin available to act on receptors in the brain

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Try cyclic antidepressants TCAs

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Antidepressant drugs that act by blocking the reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin and making more of the substance is available to act on receptors in the brain