Is Zoloft a good medication for depressive bipolar symptoms?
Is Zoloft a good medication for bipolar disorder?Zoloft can help manage the symptoms of depression for people with bipolar disorder. However, a mood stabilizing drug should be considered the basic treatment with Zoloft added to treat the depressive symptoms during a depressive episode.Zoloft is one of the drugs in the SSRI category of which there are several. These SSRI drugs can be used to treat symptoms of depression other than the depressed episode of bipolar disorder.The diagnosis of bipolar disorder has entered the popular culture and most of the people I see who are suffering from depression do not have bipolar disor...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - March 13, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Is it ADHD or Bipolar?
Is it ADHD or BiPolar?Both terms have entered pop psychology and are thrown around indiscriminately. There is a difference and telling the difference is important because the psychopharmocological treatment is different.Also, the psychosocial management and psychotherapy can be different.The immediate focus of therapy is on symptom management with the longer term focus being on the management of the disorder and what I call life style engineering or developing and implementing a wellness plan.For moreclick here. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - March 12, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Incorporating the arts in science lessons improves learning
From Science Daily on 03/05/19Incorporating the arts -- rapping, dancing, drawing -- into science lessons can help low-achieving students retain more knowledge and possibly help students of all ability levels be more creative in their learning, finds a new study by Johns Hopkins University.The findings were published on Feb. 7 in Trends in Neuroscience and Education and support broader arts integration in the classroom."Our study provides more evidence that the arts are absolutely needed in schools. I hope the findings can assuage concerns that arts-based lessons won't be as effective in teaching essential skills...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - March 11, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
20% of students with ADHD receive no school support services
From Science Daily on 03/05/19At least one in five students with ADHD receive no school services despite experiencing significant academic and social impairment, a gap particularly evident for adolescents and youth from non-English-speaking and/or lower-income families, researchers found in the largest study of children and teens with ADHD ever conducted.The new findings are based on data on 2,495 youth with ADHD aged 4 to 17 years from across the United States, collected through the National Survey of the Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD and Tourette Syndrome (NS-DATA). The survey, the largest to date of parents of youth w...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - March 10, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
The problems with Benzodiazapine drugs.
Xanax is a benzodiazepine drug. There are many others. While we are focused on the opioid epidemic, the abuse of benzos is growing in the U.S. as well. I see many clients who have been prescribed a benzo for anxiety. It is very easy to develop a tolerance, become addicted, and then have worst symptoms than the ones being treated to begin with during withdrawal. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - March 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Tips for managing an anxiety attack - "Grounding"
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Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - March 8, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
High functioning anxiety
Editor's note:Clinically, I usually find that this kind of high functioning anxiety is related to perfectionism which is also the root of OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. People with high functioning anxiety also experience depression, feeling overhwelmed, and suicidal ideas. As mentioned, because of the exceptional performance of the person, few people know or would guess at the anguish this perfectionism causes. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - March 7, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
What is the role of unwanted emotional memories in PTSD?
From Science Daily on 03/04/19"People exposed to trauma are less able to suppress unwanted emotional memories due to neural and behavioral disruptions in their brain that may contribute to the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).PTSD is characterized by intense reliving of the trauma that is repetitive, intrusive and incapacitating. The intrusive nature of these hallmark symptoms suggests that the inability to suppress unwanted memories may be a strong contributor to the behavioral manifestation of PTSD.Previous work has shown that healthy individuals can actively suppress emotional memories while individu...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - March 6, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
Extrinsic rewards can squelch creativity and high quality performance
From Larry Ferlazzo's Web Sites Of The Day blog on 03/04/19"One early and well known experiment found that children who were promised a reward were less interested in creating art than those who did not get that promise (it ’s cited in just about every motivation study you can find).In this Freakonomics episode from last October, though, Teresa Amabile talks about a variation on this experiment that she organized. In it, students were told their artistic creations were going to be judged, and those children ’s creations turned out to be much less creative than those from the control group.She goes on to say:...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - March 5, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
How will New York State's "Red Flag" law actually work?
From WXXI, 03/04/19.New York's so-called "red flag" law takes effect in about six months.It authorizes teachers, school administrators, and others to petition a court for the removal of guns from individuals who they believe pose a serious threat to themselves or others.“The petitioner has to show clear and convincing proof that the person in question is likely to engage in dangerous conduct,” said Rochester attorney David Tennant, a former co-chair of the New York State Bar Association’s task force on gun violence. "That clear and convincing standard is unus ual, it's heightened, it's hard to meet."For moreclick her...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - March 4, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
From whence does the lonliness epidemic spring?
Photo is by Gianpaolo La Paglia and is from the March, 2019 issue ofThe Sun Magazine, (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - March 3, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs
