Disorders
Racing thoughts, sweating, fatigue, lack of concentration, feeling of fear.
Anxiety
In this type of therapy patients are encouraged to face, confront, or are exposed to their fears.
Graduated Exposure Therapy: therapist takes the patient into their feared situation and will remain their until the panic subsides.
Medications used to treat Schizophrenia, impulsive anger, bipolar disorder, and other psychoses.
Antipsychotics
A technique that works to redirect you bodies flow of energy using small needles.
Acupuncture
Sadness, restless sleep, loss of appetite, thoughts of suicide, weight fluctuation.
Depression
Insight into unconscious motives and feelings that create and prolong symptoms.
Psychodynamic
Medications used to treat severe anxiety, depression, OCD.
Antidepressants
A trance state that helps the patient to achieve a better mood and elevate their depression.
Hypnosis
Mood swings, hopelessness, social isolation, weight gain, lack of concentration, often coincides with the winter months.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Method of keeping careful data on the behavior that you want to change within yourself
Behavioral Self Monitoring Therapy
Drugs used to treat mild anxiety disorders, panic disorder, and acute anxiety.
Antianxiety Drugs
Helps to calm the mind with an emphasis on breathing and stretching.
Yoga
Sadness, mania, irritability, elevated mood, false sense of superiority.
Bipolar Disorder
Form of therapy designed to identify and change irrational unproductive ways of thinking and to reduce negative emotions and their self defeating purposes.
Cognitive Therapy: therapists want patients to examine why they think the way that they do and identify ways to change.
Drug used mainly to treat Bipolar Disorder
Lithium Carbonate
A mental exercise focusing on ones breathing, often involving a repeated phrase or mantra.
Meditation
Social isolation, disorganized behavior, delusion, amnesia, anger, auditory or visual hallucinations.
Schizophrenia
Resolution of conflicts, breaking out of destructive habits for a relationship.
Couples therapy
The success of a treatment or medication due to a patients expectations, rather than the drug itself.
The Placebo Effect
The act of changing ones diet to make up for nutritional losses that may be causing a mental health disorder.
Nutritional Therapy