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Types of Depression Treatment Overview Psychotherapy Medication ECT St. John's Wort Phototherapy Introduction   Everyone has times they feel sad and don’t enjoy life. For some people, the emotional pain…

Some women say that they have attention deficit disorder (AD/HD), but others say they are AD/HD. I prefer to see the AD/HD as just one aspect of a unique individual.…

Canadian Medical Humor   Please send us jokes or humorous stories about the Canadian Health Care system. No "adult" humor, and no jokes making fun of our patients. Perfectly OK…

Social phobia is the fear that in certain social situations, one will be criticized or judged negatively. The individual feels a great deal of anxiety, humiliation, embarrassment or even panic…

.   This is a simple system to help organize one's regular mail and bill payment. Often people become mired up in the basic problem of a cluttered or non-existant…

Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia and Isolated Phobias   Panic attacks can occur in the context of several psychiatric conditions. A panic attack is a time-limited intense episode in which the individual…

  Maybe it happened when your wife got lost driving to the neighborhood market. Or when your father received a cut-off notice because a utility bill was not paid for…

  A study published in 2001 in JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, indicated that children with AD/HD were more likely to need medical care. The investigators followed…

  Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) refers to uncomfortable physical and mental symptoms that occur before the onset of the woman’s menstrual period. Estimates of affected women range from 40 to 80%.…

Adults have lived longer than children, and thus have had more time to develop other psychiatric disorders. In children with AD/HD, the existence of a comorbid condition is correlated with…