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Bipolar With No Health Insurance?

Question by Kel: Bipolar with no health insurance? I was diagnosed with “manic depression” when I was a teenager. I’ve been medicated pretty much continually ever since. My manic phases consist of irritability, insomnia, extreme anxiety. What I’ve found helped my depression the best was Lexapro, but it got too expensive and had to switch to Celexa. I’ve been on this now for several years and it seems I’m not getting the “effect” anymore. I don’t know if something else should be added or if I should start a totally new medication. I also take Xanax and Klonepin for anxiety. Problem being I don’t have any health insurance and all the new anti psychotics are way too expensive. I am also not eligible for assistance through the drug companies for medication cost help. Anybody have recommendations of medications they have had any luck with that aren’t horribly expensive? We have a psychiatric counseling place here lik ...

Electroshock Therapy for Depression: Electroshock and Its Abuse

Electroshock, or ECT (electro convulsive therapy) was first developed by psychiatrist Ugo Cerletti in 1938, who was witnessing pigs being slaughtered by first being incapacitated by electric shocks, making it easier for butchers to slit the pig’s throats and bleed them to death. Cerletti first experimented on pigs. Then he turned his experiments on humans. The convulsions brought on by electroshock broke people’s teeth, jaws and fractured spines and more. The shock introduced grand mal seizures, a wild electrical storm that travels around the skull seeking an exit, ripping and boiling flesh at high temperatures. The resultant dead brain tissue leaves the patient with severe memory loss. With between 120 to 460 volts scorching through steaming flesh one wonders why this treatment is not listed as torture. Read more... ...

Binaural Beats, Anti Depression – Brainwave Entrainment

  Binaural Beats, Anti Depression – Brainwave Entrainment – Get the full experience at http://laayon.com/trypnauralmeditation elysha, spiritual teacher, self realized teacher, awakening, enlightenment teacher, spiritu…   by 666isMONEY ? ? & ? Sad in a nation of happy people: depression in the Philippines Dellosa further explained that clinical depression is a neurochemical imbalance, which is treated with either psychotherapy (counseling) or by anti-depressants. Depression is a state of mind that afflicts even the happiest of people, people like Eli … Read more on GMA News Read more... ...

Major Depression Treatment: Progress Seen in the Treatment of Depression

The loss of interest in participating in day-to-day activities may occur gradually or unexpectedly at any place and time to any person because of shifts in mood, according to reports quoting psychology journals. A person who has experienced a great loss may run into such changes in his feelings. This is what men and women with depression go through as the disease progresses. Factors that could influence the development of depression may be determined because anybody can acquire it. Although pregnancy is a time of joy, depression may haunt these expecting women. Cases of birth defects found in Pennsylvania show that complications may arise when antidepressants are used during pregnancy. Read more... ...

Spectrum Psychiatry Providing Best Treatment for Bipolar Disorders

  Spectrum Psychiatry Providing Best Treatment For Bipolar Disorders – Get the best treatment for bipolar disorders as well as anxiety disorders only from Spectrum Psychiatry. For Details, Call Us At 314-395-8940 or Visit http:/…   Magic Mushrooms: The Key to Treating Severe Depression? The research team, headed by former UK government drugs adviser David Nutt and involving a team at Imperial College London, believe that psilocybin may be the breakthrough needed to combat severe depression which cannot be treated with common … Read more on Care2.com (blog) Read more... ...

Treatment for Bipolar Disorder

...  for Bipolar Disorder – http://www.AdviceOnBipolarDisorder.com Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a life-long illness affecting the chemistry of the brain. In clas…   Bipolar Disorder in Women Vol. 2: What I Wish I Knew Before Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) remains an option for bipolar psychosis, treatment resistance, severe mixed episode, or pregnancy, to induce rapid mood stabilization. Co-morbid Conditions. Women are at a greater risk of co-morbid conditions like … Read more on PsychCentral.com (blog) Read ...

First Person: It's Hard to Send a Pet to Heaven

First Person: It's Hard to Send a Pet to Heaven She was also part of our family crises, like the time she got into a fight with some animal outside that resulted in a puncture wound just when Marsha was undergoing breast-cancer treatment. "Your cat might need a port for her medicine," the vet told … Read more on National Geographic Don't Miss the Sentinel's Feature on Drug Addiction Finally, responsible recreational users will not face the destruction of their lives at the hands of the legal system, and will be less likely to enter the depression/drugs death spiral so common of people whose previously productive lives are torn … Read more on Free Keene Read more... ...