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The subject in question is a 40 yr. old gay male. He has had significant lose in his adult years, death, repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse, drug addiction and bi-polar disorder. Related Entries What Type Of Jobs Are Associated With The Drug Rehab Field? What’s The Best Drug Rehab For Methamphetamine Addiction In Bronx, New York? How [...] Read Full Story

Date Published: Monday, November 9th, 2009 Last month we wrote that women who take antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) during pregnancy may be more likely to experience premature birth than other women. Science Daily is now reporting that the likelihood of premature child delivery triples in pregnant women with a history of depression and who take certain psychiatric drugs. The prior study was published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and also found that babies born to women taking SSRIs were more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit. Science Daily writes that researchers from the University ... Read Full Story

Having experienced depression myself, I know 1st hand how over absorbing the feelings of doom and gloom can be.  When I was depressed, everything was a problem.  I thought the worst about all situations and I found it incredibly difficult to feel positive about anything.  Basically I was a misery guts.   How to treat Depression using Supplements. Illustration of the effect Depression can have Thank goodness I recognised what was happening and supplemented myself with the key nutrients I needed and was quickly able to come through this.  For others though, I can imagine how terrible a path this is, especially when they ... Read Full Story

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Danish women who took antidepressants during pregnancy had twice the risk of pre-term delivery as other women, and their babies were more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit than those of women who did not take the drugs, researchers reported on Monday. They said antidepressants, known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs, which affect a message-carrying brain chemical called serotonin, may raise the risk of pre-term delivery and affect a baby's health at birth. Some prior studies have found that drugs in this class can cross the placenta and appear in the umbilical cord blood of babies ... Read Full Story

A key finding from this study was that, in patients with bipolar disorder, obesity is a stronger influence on insulin resistance than is bipolar disorder itself. In other words, insulin resistance in these patients does not appear to be more severe after accounting for their obesity. This conclusion, however, should be tempered by the observation that these obese women with bipolar disorder had significantly more abdominal fat and were slightly more hypertensive than BMI-matched controls, allowing for the possibility that bipolar disorder may indeed be associated with altered metabolic profile. Using tools to assess both energy expenditure and energy intake, this project indicates that, ... Read Full Story