sleep disorder

Try and Enjoy Your Sleep for a Healthy Life

...  and enjoy your sleep for a healthy life But, if you feel that you do not get enough sleep, you may have insomnia, a sleep disorder. People with insomnia have one or more of the following: … They also determine whether you snore, have any underlying medical conditions, stress, depression … Read more on Oman Daily Observer Talk to take up teens, overbooking and stress In addition to her counseling practice, Rivas is affiliated with the Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center in Lemont, where girls and women undergo treatment as they recover from addictions, anxiety, depression, eating ...

Why Do So Many “elderly” People Have Serious Sleep Disorders?

Question by Jayson R: Why do so many “elderly” people have serious sleep disorders? Why do people 60 and over have so much trouble sleeping? Is it because their pineal gland makes very little to no melatonin? Is it due to depression or lack of activity? Not getting enough light? Some just can’t fall asleep without pills. Some “elderly” people have little trouble falling asleep, but have trouble staying asleep. Why is this? Best answer: Answer by doctoreAs people age, there are normal changes in sleep patterns that result in less deep (stage 3-4) sleep, more REM cycles, more frequent night-time wakening, and more frequent day-time naps. The total number of hours of sleep should remain ~8 hours. Read more... ...

Electroconvulsive Therapy

  Electroconvulsive Therapy – —   Treatment resistant adolescent depression with upper airway resistance … Filed under: electroshock therapy for depression Case presentationAn 18-year-old Caucasian man presented to our sleep disorders center with chronic severe depression that was no longer responsive to medication but that had recently responded to electroconvulsive therapy. Ancillary, persistent … Read more on 7thSpace Interactive (press release)   Medicare & Magellan Behavioral Health to Cover TMS Treatment for Depression Filed under: electroshock therapy for depression Read more... ...

Keegan Walks After FCE Spinal Stroke!

...  Walks after FCE Spinal Stroke! – Our 7-year old Golden Retriever/Chow, Keegan, suffered a spinal stroke (FCE) in January. Paralyzed from the shoulders down, the neurologist told us she would never walk again. 4 1/2 months later, this is video of Keegan…walking!   Spinal Fluid Substance May Help Drive Sleep Disorder: Study Filed under: spinal stroke 21 (HealthDay News) — A substance found in spinal fluid could act like a natural sleeping pill and help cause hypersomnia, a condition where people sleep more than 70 hours a week, a small new study suggests. Despite their excessive sleeping, people … Read more on U.S. News & World Report Read ...

What Is an Okay STARTING Dose for Anxiety Medication “xanax”?

by the|G|™ Question by angieJV: What is an okay STARTING dose for anxiety medication “xanax”? My doctor prescribed me an anxiety medication called xanax. Im really nervous to take it cause I don’t like taking medicine at all. I have very bad anxiety problems where it is starting, ell more than starting to impact my life in negative ways. anyways I just wanted to see if this is indeed a good dose for a person who is just starting out taking this medication. its 0.5 milligrams of xanax? is this a lot, will it make me feel weird, this is what im nervous about! I mean I realize it will a little probably but nothing major right?! Is it a good beginers dose? Read more... ...

NorthCarolinaDrugRehab.net – North Carolina Drug & Alcohol Rehab

  NorthCarolinaDrugRehab.net – North Carolina Drug & Alcohol Rehab – northcarolinadrugrehab.net – The River Source offers holistic drug and alcohol treatment for patients in North Carolina NC.   Recovery from alcoholism brings hope Filed under: alcohol rehab nc Yet alcohol use made the problems worse. Nancy moved from New York to North Carolina to try to escape “all that was going on in my life.” She lived in several different women's shelters. She went through detox and rehabilitation many times. The only … Read more on Greenville Daily Reflector   Read more... ...

Spouses of Heart Attack Patients More Prone to Depression, Anxiety and Suicide

Spouses of Heart Attack Patients More Prone to Depression, Anxiety and Suicide Filed under: treatment centers for anxiety and depression They looked at the use of antidepressants and benzodiazepines (used for treating anxiety) before and up to a year after the event, records of contact with the health system for depression, and suicide. … who lost a spouse to a fatal AMI or whose … Read more on PsychCentral.com   Childhood Anxiety May Be Linked to Sleeping Problems Filed under: treatment centers for anxiety and depression Read more... ...