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This Week - June 30, 2003

1. Are you going to the wrong doctor for depression help?
2. Kicking depression and getting high
3. What can happen when you receive the wrong psychiatric diagnosis
4. Eye movement studies to help diagnose mental illness
5. Zyprexa Zydis helps with medication non-compliance
6. Pregnancy and eating disorders
7. Unlike stimulants, Strattera works for 24 hrs.
8. New tool for diagnosing ADHD
9. ADHD summer camp lets kids know they're not along
10. Divorced parents should stay put
11. I'm a girl in a relationship with a girl, but does that mean we're lesbians?
12. Thought for today

For Depression, the Family Doctor May Be the First Choice but Not the Best

Are you going to the right doctor for help?

About 13 million Americans (6%) suffered from major depression last year. And a survey released last week showed that only about half get any kind of depression treatment, and only half of those get the right treatment for depression.

One reason for that may be that many depression sufferers are going to the wrong kind of doctor looking for help.

Who should you be seeing? Find out here.

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Kicking Depression and Getting High

There's a lot of talk about how Americans are "overmedicated." Doctors say patients are often not satisfied if they leave the doctor's office without a new bottle of pills. But a lot of us are undermedicated, and the impact on public policy, as well as individual lives, is enormous.

Suzanne Fields writes in the Washington Times that because of stigma, poor access to treatment, and doctors who aren't clued into depression, a lot of people aren't getting the help they need. Included, is the story of one senior citizen who did and the positive impact it had on his life.

Mistaken for a Schizophrenic

Wrongly institutionalized, one woman recalls the experience. "Mindy Lewis spent her sixteenth birthday--it wasn’t so sweet--in a world-famous mental hospital in her native New York City. She spent her seventeenth and eighteenth ones in the same airless institution, drugged and locked away from sunshine and movies and pizza..." Continued

Eye Movement Studies To Help Diagnose Mental Illness

Researchers are studying subtle abnormalities in eye movements that may one day be used to diagnose psychiatric diseases like schizophrenia.

Irregularities in how the eyes track a moving object reflect defects in the neural circuitry of the brain and appear to correspond with particular types of mental disorders. Read about this groundbreaking research.

Zyprexa Zydis Helps With Medication Non-Compliance

One of the biggest problems patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder face is medication non-compliance, not taking their medications when they're supposed to.

Eli Lilly, manufacturer of anti-psychotic, Zyprexa, now has an oral version of the medication which it says not only helps relieve symptoms, but also may help with the compliance issue. The details are here.

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Pregnancy and Eating Disorders

Did you know if a woman has anorexia or bulimia nervosa, she will have a harder time becoming pregnant and carrying a child, and a greater likelihood of either miscarriage or birth defects?

In this week's column, Dr. Joel P. Jahraus, primary care director at Remuda Ranch, says even if pregnancy is achieved, the risk is high for obstetrical complications.

Read the column

view video: Body Image: What We See When We Look in the Mirror

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Nonstimulant ADHD Drug Works For 24 Hours

Doctors are finding that Strattera is a viable alternative to stimulant medications like Ritalin and Concerta. Strattera helps ADHD kids who don't benefit from stimulants -- especially those who are anxious, have tics, or who have trouble sleeping. Story

Diagnosing ADHD

On the subject of ADHD, researchers are working on a more definitive way to diagnose the disorder than just interviews and standard testing. One way may be to track dopamine levels in the patient. Find out more here.

Summer Camp for ADHD Kids

And what's your child doing this summer? In North Carolina, there's one camp where ADHD children get a sense of belonging, a boost in self-esteem, and a chance to find out they're not alone. It's the Summer Camp for all Truly Gifted Energized Children.

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When Mom Moves a Town Over

Divorced Parents Should Stay Put

What is good for the custodial parent isn't always good for the child. Children, whose divorced parents have moved more than an hour apart from each other, are more likely to have both long-term psychological and physical difficulties, according to new research. When divorced parents stay in the same town, these same problems can be avoided.

"The essential problem is that every thing changes going into a long distance situation," says Sandford Braver, Ph.D., a psychologist at Arizona State University. "Each parent can't be involved in the daily life of a child as they might be the same town."

Braver and colleagues conducted their research from a pool of 602 college students from divorced families. Sixty percent of the participants' parents had moved an hour or more apart from each other. They tested for psychological and emotional adjustment, finding that physical distance between parents caused psychological issues. Years later, these participants felt more hostile in interpersonal relationships, suffered more distress over their parent's divorce and rated themselves lower in physical health.

Braver cautions divorced parents against leaving town. "There is going to be cost to the child that is going to last far beyond the move," he warns. The findings disagree with the established legal precedent that what is good for the custodial parent is good for the child. The researchers hope that their study may convince judges to think otherwise.

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When Friends Become Lovers

jgarr13:

"Two months ago my best friend kissed me. Now we have been together 3 weeks. I had never had feelings for a girl before and never even thought of it. We now have the strongest feelings for each other, yet we go to the mall and love to check out guys."

"We both have issues with the labels of gay, lesbian, and bisexual. We feel we don't fit any of these molds since we only have feelings for each other and no other girls... is that right???"

"We are very afraid when we tell people that they will automatically assume we are lesbians. It scares us. Any suggestions?"

Can you help jgarr13? Respond here.

Read: Gay and Lesbian Relationships

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Here's something to think about...

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle."

"The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours." - Ayn Rand

From all of us here at HealthyPlace.com, we hope you have a good week.

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