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Cognitive Therapy for Depression
Almost everyone has dark thoughts when his or her mood is bad. With depression, though, the thoughts can be extremely negative. They can also take over and distort your view of reality. Cognitive therapy can be an effective way to defuse those thoughts. When used for depression, cognitive therapy pr
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Depression: Coping With Anxiety Symptoms
Depression and anxiety might seem like opposites, but they often go together. More than half of the people diagnosed with depression also have anxiety. Either condition can be disabling on its own. Together, depression and anxiety can be especially hard to live with, hard to diagnose, and hard to tr
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ADHD or Not? Why a Diagnosis Matters
About 9% of U.S. children and teens have ADHD. For many of these kids, a call from a teacher was the first time their parents started discussing the possibility of ADHD. "The vast majority of cases are brought to the attention of parents by educators, either at the preschool level or elementary scho
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Disciplining a Child With ADHD
RaeLyn Murphy of Milwaukee called her firstborn son Josh "Houdini." "He could outwit any childproof lock," she recalls. "When he was 4, he got the door open in his day-care center and told all the kids, ‘Come on, we're free, let's go!'" His behavior, combined with a strong family history of attentio
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'Bath Salts' Drug Trend: Expert Q&A
"Ivory Wave," "Purple Wave," Vanilla Sky," and "Bliss" -- all are among the many street names of a so-called designer drug known as “bath salts,” which has sparked thousands of calls to poison centers across the U.S. over the last year. Citing an “imminent threat to public safety,” the U.S. Drug En
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ADHD and Risky Behavior in Adults
When Amanda, 30, was diagnosed with ADHD five years ago, she began to understand the risk-taking that had marked her teens and twenties: the drug abuse, binge drinking, and casual sex with numerous men who had flirted with her in bars. She couldn’t put the brakes on those intensely exciting experi
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Exercise for Depression: How It Helps
Five years ago, after ending a long-term relationship, Anita became seriously depressed. It benched the once-physically active writer, who asked that her last name be withheld to protect her privacy. She stopped running and began gaining weight and falling out of shape. It was not the first time she
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Can Antidepressants Work for Me?
How effective are antidepressants? That's a question that many people with depression have asked -- and research suggests that the answers aren't simple. It's a question that's relevant to millions. About one in 10 Americans takes an antidepressant, now the most commonly prescribed type of drug in
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The Truth About Toxicology Tests
On television crime shows, the results of toxicology tests are spewed out at warp speed, sometimes available even before the autopsy is complete. In real life, toxicology test results take much longer. "Some of the tests take days, weeks, months," says Alan Hall, MD, a board-certified toxicologist a
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What Is Pedophilia?
Pedophilia can sometimes be a taboo topic. But it's often in the headlines. What is pedophilia? Who are pedophiles? How is it treated by the medical community? Here are answers from sexologist Ray Blanchard, PhD, adjunct psychiatry professor at the University of Toronto. A pedophile is a person who
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