answersLogoWhite

0

🍎

Depression and Bipolar Disorder

Questions and answers about Depression and Bipolar disorder, including symptoms of the illness, and how to help those who suffer from it.

2,793 Questions

What does anger innoculation mean?

I've never heard this term, but the words suggest the meaning. Inoculation in medicine is giving someone a tiny dose of a substance so that he will be immune to it. So anger inoculation either means exposing someone to anger so that he gets used to it, or exposing someone to a situation which would normally make him angry until he no longer gets angry in that situation.

What do say when you hear sad news from someone?

Well... I suppose it depends what the news is. If someone has died you should say "I'm so sorry! Is there anything I can do?"

Can bipolar disorder be linked with paraphilia?

No; mood disorders are not connected to deviant sexual behavior, and it is remiss to suggest this.

Sociopathy, however, is strongly linked to paraphilia, it being one of the telltale signs of the mental disorder.

Function of the amygdala?

Amygdala is seen to be linked to the orbital frontal cortex, the striatum and thalamus, which are all structures involved in emotional processing. In humans and animals, this amygdala is linked to both fear and pleasure responses. The main function of amygdala is emotional and social processing. It processes and stores memories of emotional events and is also involved in current emotional responses. Researchers also find that the amygdala in men and women respond differently to emotional situations.

Basically, the amygdala is your emotional database.

When is homesickness occur?

Homesickness occurs when a person is away from home. One can feel blue about missing the comfort and security of ones loved ones.

Is alcohol use as a form of self medication to manage loneliness and depression?

It is by many people, which often results in a dual diagnosis of the original condition plusalcoholism when/if real treatment is eventually obtained.

Is it possible for self mutilation to emotionally desensitize a person?

Self-mutilation is a complicated issue that should be discussed with a professional. The simple answer is "no." However, most people use it to distract themselves from unwanted emotions, so in a sense it is true.

Why treat high cortisol levels with anti depressants?

With chronic or severe stress, the body reacts by mounting a stress response through the stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system. This is also called the "fight or flight" response as the body arms itself to face what it perceives as danger

causeing the adrenal cortex to increase production of the anti-stress hormone cortisol.

Antidepressants calm the 'fight or flight' reaction of high cortisol levels.

Why did we have high tariffs during the depression?

High tariffs during the Great Depression, particularly exemplified by the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, were implemented to protect domestic industries from foreign competition and to stimulate the U.S. economy. However, these tariffs led to retaliatory measures from other countries, exacerbating global trade tensions and deepening the economic crisis. The intention was to shield American jobs, but the result was a decline in international trade, which ultimately hindered economic recovery.

Can lack of phosphorous cause depression?

phosphorus is not linked to any clinical depression or bi-polar disorder. phosphorus is important in the phospo-lipid bilayer of cells, it is in ATP which is the energy that our body produces, and many other things, just not depression or bipolar disorder.

How do you help yourself from drug addiction without telling your parents?

try and make an appointment with your local doctor if that is not possibe and you live in the UK try the nhs direct or Google talk to FRANK for advice if you live outside the UK look up support phone lines i.n your are of try and pray to God you will find that your head becomes a lot clearer and answers seem more appaernt Just Give it a Go because TRUST ME it works. :)

Are most people happy or sad?

No people are not happy as of yet. death makes them insane they smile and think they will be reincarnated go to heaven be a sole but when it comes down to it we don't know and with the evidence we have it would seems we will just be forgotten. people try to appreciate what they have and not think about how much they are missing because its to painful. we are in a battle with death for us and everyone that is and has been. we are in a battle with the sadness of everything to make life enjoyable to know its worth and not think its worthless. and in the end we don't know anything so their could be hope and that seems as comfortable and honest as it can be. honesty makes you numb ignorance is false bliss and negativity is hell.

Why do you think Greyling is sad?

because he wanted to go back in the sea but his mother would not let him go from her i-sight