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'Families' - Doesn’t Cause Anorexia Nervos

...relentless pursuit of thinness, emaciation and the obsessive fear of gaining weight. Anorexia nervosa commonly begins during adolescence, but strikes throughout the lifespan - it is nine times more common in females than in males. Personality traits, such as perfectionism, anxiety and obsessionality, are often...

14-year-old Killed in School Shooting in Canada

...on the incident or have flashbacks or uncontrolled obsessive thoughts about it, these are children who need a crisis assessment." Often parents will exacerbate the situation by trying to keep their kids at home. But Wong said that letting potentially traumatized children have the run of the house can be disa...

Now a Green Agenda for Mental Health

...ession but also in conditions like panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, social anxiety disorder, and eating disorders. The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) block the ability of the nerve endings to bind and break down serotonin so that more serotonin is available to help the brain p...

Patients Not Complying With Their Dermatologic Problem

...ng the medication with me. And I tend to be on the obsessive compulsive side! Patient forgetfulness is just one part of the problem, he said. Sometimes, patients consider treatment the worst part of the disease. For example, scalp psoriasis may seem resistant to treatment, he said. Actually, psoriasis treatm...

Research into Suppressed Memories Could Help Treatment for Depression

... flashbacks to disturbing events, and intrusive or obsessive thoughts. "The first step is to understand how memory suppression works in healthy individuals, and what neural mechanisms are at work," said Depue. "Then you need to look at those same mechanisms in a clinical population and figure out why they ar...

Research Reveals Anatomy of Suppressed Memories: Study

... flashbacks to disturbing events, and intrusive or obsessive thoughts. "The first step is to understand how memory suppression works in healthy individuals, and what neural mechanisms are at work," said Depue. "Then you need to look at those same mechanisms in a clinical population and figure out why they ar...

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