.... Affective disorders are characterized by a smorgasbord of symptoms that can be broken into manic and depressive episodes. The depressive episodes are characterized by intense feelings of sadness and despair that can become feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. Some of the symptoms of a depressive episode include anhedonia, disturbances in sleep and appetite, psycomoter retardation, loss of energy, feelings of worthlessness, guilt, difficulty thinking, indecision, and recurrent thoughts of death and suicide (Hollandsworth, Jr. 1990 ). The manic episodes are characterized by elevated or irritable mood, increased energy, decreased need for sleep, poor judgment and in ....

.... new body tissue quickly, but with drastic side effects. Anabolic means the ability to promote body growth and repair body tissue. It comes from the Greek word anabolikos meaning "constructive." Steroids are basically made up of hormones. Picture: One woman training to make the 1984 US women's basketball team used them, her muscles started to bulge, her voice grew deeper, and she even had the beginnings of a mustache. These are all the usual symptoms of anabolic steroids. Steroids were not always used for sports, they started out the same way most drugs did, medicinal purposes. Victims of starvation and severe injury profited from it's ability to build new tissue quick ....

.... believe that they have the right to decide whether their animals should continue to live or not, so why isn’t it legal to make this decision about human lives? We kill our animals because they have a terminal illness or because they are suffering. Therefore, people, as higher beings, should have the right to decide whether they want to end their suffering. Denying terminally ill patients the right to die with dignity is unfair and cruel. It is worse to keep someone alive who doesn’t want to live and suffer from pain, rather than letting them have a peaceful and less painful death through euthanasia. An true example of someone who deserves a peaceful and less p ....

.... The meat is just picked back up and packaged. I don't know about you but I think something has got to be done to keep our food clean and edible. The other half of this story is the ridiculous cures that some people are receiving. I have heard of alcohlics who are trying to breaktheir habits being given a bottle of medicine that contains 80 % alcohol. Something there doesn't sound right. People are being given the same treatment for epilepsy and all sorts of other disorders. How is alcohol going to help someone that has epilepsy? The only thing these nonsense treatments are doing is making the physical ailments that these people have worse. If you were terribly si ....

.... argue that these advances are not helping millions, but the costs inherent with these new remedies make them inaccessible to many Americans who would benefit greatly from them. From 1971 to 1991 the price of health related goods and services climbed 30 percent faster that of other goods, placing far out of the financial reach of the working class of this nation. It is time to consider a true national health-care system, in order to insure that everyone, not just the wealthy, can enjoy good health. As it stands, America is the only civilized country where access to basic health care depends on where one works and how much one is paid. For many well insured people there is ....

.... restraints, introduced moral (psychological) treatment, and began objective clinical studies. Thereafter, in clinical work with large populations of patients in institutions for the mentally ill, the major types of were outlined and methods of management and treatment were developed(3). Classification. The division of into classes is still inexact, and classification varies from country to country. For official record-keeping purposes, most countries follow the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO). For clinical use in the U. S., the American Psychiatric Association in 1980 adopted a third edition of its Diagnostic and Statistic ....

.... Pro-Choice movement. We all know America as the "land of the free", as sung daily by many in "The Star Spangled Banner". Knowing that many women's autonomy has been taken away, how can we, Americans, who claim to be people of liberty, say the words of "The Star Spangled Banner" in good conscience? Females have been told what to do with and how to treat their bodies. If the right to self-determination is taken away, what will be decided for us next? What we can wear? What we can read and what we can say? Possibly even how we can act? This is not the American way! In fact, it is unconstitutional. We must be aware of this lack of freedom and see to it that women ....

.... days feel¬ ing deeply depressed, other days coasting along and feeling virtually no emotion. All of these emotions are a normal part of the grieving process. Shock or disbelief may come first. Many people have a very difficult time recognizing the loss in their lives. Many efforts are made to push the feelings out of their mind. This is normal because the thought of the loss is too overwhelming for them to handle. However, this disbelief or shock will diminish as you begin to express and share your feelings about your loss with others. Following feelings of shock or disbelief, you gradually be¬ gin to realize that the loss is real. Then you begin to ex¬ perience deeper a ....