ECT is the oldest biologically based treatment in psychiatry. The first treatment was performed in 1938. The first ECT patient had a condition we now call catatonia. Catatonia, untreated, is nearly 100% fatal. This patient would have died in a state psychiatric hospital as many people at the time did due to untreated mental illness. […]
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) may be the most misunderstood psychiatric illness. Most people have heard someone say, “well that’s my OCD” or “I’m OCD about cleaning my house.” OCD is not simply wanting things to be neat and orderly or having to do things a certain way. It is, at times, a debilitating brain illness
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Mental Illness = Brain Disease To explain mental Illness, it makes sense to look at other illnesses that affect the human body. Hypertension, also called High Blood Pressure, is a type of disease that increases the blood pressure in the body. This illness is often an inherited disease that is caused by both genetic and
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TMS is a safe, non-drug, FDA-cleared treatment that uses gentle magnetic pulses to stimulate underactive areas of the brain, helping to better regulate mood in patients with depression. Often, TMS is even successful at helping treat depression in patients who have not been able to find relief through other methods, such as antidepressants and talk
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The drug, ketamine, comes in a variety of forms, potencies, and uses. For example, the medical community often uses it at high doses as an anesthetic and/or to help manage pain. Additionally, at lower, sub-anesthetic doses, clinicians may use ketamine to help treat depression. Nasal esketamine (Spravato®), which is the only FDA-approved ketamine-based treatment for
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