Psych Observer – Exposing Bad Psychiatry

For almost every behavioural issue, these days there’s a medicine to treat it

Roger Dobson reports
Tuesday, 3 June 2008

Spending too much time on the internet? Worried about a low sex drive, shyness or lack of social skills? Or do you lose your temper too easily, blush too readily or spend too much time and money shopping?

Time was when such behaviours might have been regarded as individual differences, or put down to lack of self control and restraint. But not any more. Increasing numbers of behavioural conditions are being treated with drug therapy. Bereavement issues, blushing, low sex drive, high sex drive, sex addiction, lack of orgasm, gambling, fear of public speaking, stealing, domestic violence and phobias are all being targeted with drugs that are either in clinical trials or already available.

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Nothing is more devastating then having to lose someone that we love and care. Unfortunately life is draconian at times and we as human beings need to accept this from the beginning. Everybody and everything is eventually going to die, we cannot stop this normal cycle from happening.

Taken off of MedlinePlus: “Bereavement is the period of grief and mourning after a death. When you grieve, it’s part of the normal process of reacting to a loss. You may experience grief as a mental, physical, social or emotional reaction. Mental reactions can include anger, guilt, anxiety, sadness and despair. Physical reactions can include sleeping problems, changes in appetite, physical problems or illness.

How long bereavement lasts can depend on how close you were to the person who died, if the person’s death was expected and other factors. Friends, family and faith may be sources of support. Grief counseling or grief therapy is also helpful to some people.”

Some of the emotional symptoms

Denial, Disbelief, Confusion, Shock, Sadness, Yearning, Anger, Humiliation, Despair and Guilt.

I’ve experienced Bereavement in mid February of 2004 when my mother unexpectedly passed away from heroin overdose,  I’ve witnessed her death. It was the most terrible thing that has ever happen to me in my life. I still have flashbacks to this day on to the day the paramedics came to my house and to the last minutes of my mothers life before we decided to unplug her from life support machine. I had full fledge of symptoms of Bereavement starting to the day my father dialed 9-11 due to my mother being unconscious / none responsive and laying on the coach not breathing. She was without oxygen for some time and it gave her less of the chance for survival from lack of oxygen to the brain. It was terrible hearing the air being forced out of my mothers lunges, the sound was a deep grunting sound, while the paramedics was working on my mother, she was on the gurney and was being transport by  ambulance to the hospital. My mother had total of four cardiac arrests, two in the ambulance and two inside the hospital.

Bereavement doesn’t go away and you can’t cure it but to manage it with various of positive activities to keep your mind busy.

Crying over the death of your love ones is very acceptable to both genders, don’t let anyone tell you other wise.