Sentences with phrase «treat severe anxiety»

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Hepatic encephalopathy occurs when the liver can not remove certain toxins and chemicals, such as ammonia, from the blood.1 These toxins and chemicals then build up and enter the brain.1 Hepatic encephalopathy is one of the major complications of cirrhosis (scarring of the liver), and a leading cause of hospital re-admission due to its recurrence, despite treatment.1 It can occur suddenly in people with acute liver failure, but is seen more often in those with chronic liver disease.1 Symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy include mild confusion, forgetfulness, poor concentration and personality or mood changes, but can progress to extreme anxiety, seizures, severe confusion, jumbled and slurred speech and slow movement.1 The first step in treatment is to identify and treat any factors that cause hepatic encephalopathy.2 Once the episode has resolved, further treatment aims to reduce the production and absorption of toxins, such as ammonia.1 Generally, there are two types of medication used to reduce the likelihood of another hepatic encephalopathy episode — lactulose and rifaximin.2 However, it remains a leading cause of hospitalisations and re-hospitalisations in cirrhotic patients, despite the use of the above - mentioned standard of care treatment.

Why they're prescribed: While antidepressants are typically used to treat depression, they're also frequently prescribed for anxiety disorders, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, chronic pain, smoking cessation and some hormone - mediated disorders, such as severe menstrual cramps.

Ginger root will not be enough to treat severe cases of anxiety in humans or in cats.

While some pheromone and nutraceutical products marketed for their calming effects can be helpful adjuncts to the treatment of mild anxiety and fear, «moderate to severe anxiety and fear - related conditions are more effectively treated with pharmaceutical drugs in combination with management and behavior modification,» Ballantyne said.

There is more severe «cognitive anxiety» that most individuals experience when faced with an unexpected physical treat.

These disorders cause severe impairment and excessive distress and are often treated with anxiety counseling.

Health anxiety seems in its severe form to be a quite disturbing and persistent condition entailing high health care costs, and it should be more consistently diagnosed and aggressively treated.

They are able to treat illnesses such as depression, severe anxiety, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with both talking therapies and medication, if necessary.

«I have successfully treated clients who are now living healthy, productive lives who have had the following problems: Trauma, victims of physical, sexual and mental abuse, families with relationship issues, oppositional teens, marriages headed for divorce, severe anxiety, living with borderline personality disorder, and individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder and their partners.

I treat a variety of clinical problems including adjustment issues, identity problems, depression, anxiety, complex trauma, personality issues, drug abuse and severe psychiatric illness.

Mental health problems affect around one in five youth in Australia and internationally, 1 with major personal, societal and economic ramifications.2 3 Children's mental health problems are primarily externalising (eg, oppositional defiance, aggression) and internalising (eg, anxiety, depression) problems.1 Up to 50 % of preschool behaviour problems persist through childhood if left untreated, then into adolescence and adulthood.4 Approaches to improving children's mental health in the population would ideally involve effective prevention in addition to clinical treatment of severe problems.5 6 Behavioural parenting programmes have the strongest evidence of efficacy to date for treating children's established behaviour problems.2 7, — , 10 Although effective, parenting programmes to treat children's established behaviour problems are cost - and time - intensive, and require an available workforce trained in evidence - based treatments.

TARGET is an educational and therapeutic intervention designed to prevent and treat traumatic stress disorders (including PTSD, severe anxiety disorders, depression, and dissociative disorders), co-occurring addictive, personality, or psychotic disorders, and adjustment disorders related to other types of stressors.

Severe anxiety problems in children can be treated.

I specialize in treating depression, anxiety, PTSD / trauma, addiction and severe mental illnesses such as bi-polar disorder and schizophrenia.

Although previously considered a disorder highly difficult to treat, in the past 15 years, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has emerged as an empirically supported treatment for severe health anxiety yielding large reductions of health anxiety.6 Few studies have, however, investigated whether CBT is a cost - effective treatment.