Anxiety News

Each year more than 40 million Americans will suffer from an anxiety disorder and more than 19 million Americans will suffer with a depressive illness.

This made it into the line up, just barely, because sometimes I find the medline articles are just a little too light.

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>Wouldn't it be nice if our doctors could predict accurately whether we would respond to a particular medication?

Do I detect yet another study which shows quite clearly that anxiety disorders have their origins not in our thoughts, but in the way our brain works.

This article happens to be about using the scanning to determine which drug would work best for you. I applaud all such effort. A lot of time is wasted when patients go on, and off drugs. We need to know from the start.

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There are various online panic attack treatment courses available, such as Panic Away, which have produced real and surprising results.

The link takes you to a press release, when you actual visit the site it is a set up to sell you a course. From the first moment I saw "Panic Attack Treatment Website" I was suspicious. It's just a cover for selling someones program.

That is why it is so very important to always check truth statements made in press releases, because the press release often provides cover for someone to make some money on their miracle product.

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“Personalized medicine” is the effort to match particular treatments to particular patients on the basis of genetic information or other biological markers."

Researchers have found that using fMRI, the f standing for functional. It sounds similar to when they were getting some people high on pot, and some not, and then scanning their brains to see if scary pictures affected them, and how.

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The antipsychotic drug Seroquel may help battle major depression and generalized anxiety disorder, two new studies suggest.

I think it is wonderful that a drug meant for one problem also works for another problem. Of course, by the time the major drug companies get hold of it, it will be five or six different drugs.

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No matter the source, the statistics tell the same sad and scary story: Chances are good you work with people who have drug or alcohol problems, and those problems are costing society billions of dollars.

Institute for Research, Education and Training in Addictions says that in 2002, "drug use disorders alone contributed to a loss of productivity amounting to $128.6 billion. Alcohol dependence alone is estimated to cause 500 million lost workdays annually."

Excuse me? It seems more is needed for Just Say No to Alcohol.

You have to know that with statistics like that, even though they are provable, the emphasis will remain on the drugs.

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IT WAS initially meant to be a bit of a joke when, earlier this year, the respected international academic journal Nature posted a they'd ever experimented with brain-boosting drugs.

The journal's editors got a surprise then to learn that about 20% of those responding used so-called cognition-enhancing drugs such as beta-blockers . . . The journal's editors got a surprise then to learn that about 20% of those responding used so-called cognition-enhancing drugs such as beta-blockers,

That pretty much says it all, don't you think? We are so competitive we will pop this pill to think better.

I take something because it controls my anxiety which is life ripping, and they take it just to be able to give the big speech? I think I'm insulted.

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Issue date: 5/5/08 Section: News Last week, the Department of Veterans Affairs admitted that on average, 18 veterans commit suicide everyday.

Just like members of police and fire departments, Cheung said soldiers often feel that if they seek psychological counseling, their superiors will think something is wrong with them and they will be ostracized. "Paramilitary and military organizations have a reluctance to show any signs of weakness," Cheung said.

Didn't we just talk about Stigma not long ago? I know we did.

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"In a new survey of 700 Americans, about 23 percent admit to "sharing" their prescription medications with others, Reuters reports."

The medications most shared included Allegra (25 percent admit to sharing), Darvocet and OxyContin (22 percent), as well as antibiotics like amoxicillin (21 percent), according to the study published in the American Journal of Public Health. Antidepressants, anti-anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity medications like Paxil, Zoloft, Ritalin and Valium were shared by 7 percent of respondents.

It makes you wonder about the McKesson story a little bit more.

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