Mental Health

The #1 Problem Among College Students Is Now Anxiety – Business Pundit

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“They can’t tolerate discomfort or having to struggle,” Dan Jones, director of counseling and psychological services at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, told the New York Times. “A primary symptom is worrying, and they don’t have the ability to soothe themselves.” In 2010, a national study showed that nearly half of college students seeking counseling had serious mental illness. Those students outnumbered a 2000 study by 100%.

via The #1 Problem Among College Students Is Now Anxiety – Business Pundit.

Anxious Students Strain College Mental Health Centers – NYTimes.com.

More Venlafaxine please.

Daily Pill? No Thanks, I’ll Take Early Death | Medpage Today

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About half of patients in the U.S. don’t take their medications as prescribed, including patients who have had heart attacks.

Daily Pill? No Thanks, I’ll Take Early Death | Medpage Today.

I actually started to write something really, really snarky but better judgement prevailed.  Why even mention people who discontinue statin use without their physician’s knowledge, have a myocardial infarction and two drug eluting stents all while denying the MI ever occurred and maintaining belief that the second stent was not necessary?

Why write about the Standard offer for life coverage?  I was asked to review the medical records for my opinion.

Standard?  I think not.

America’s Workers: Stressed Out, Overwhelmed, Totally Exhausted – The Atlantic

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I asked Peter Senge about that. How to try to live and work in a sane way when you’re in the middle of insanity: a voracious workplace that will eat you alive, friends and neighbors who raise eyebrows if you pull your kids out of some competitive activity. He gave some important advice: Create your own community, a network of like-minded people. Humans are wired to conform—that’s why these cultural pressures, however silly they may seem, wield such power over us. So find a group that fits your values that would make you happier to conform to.

via America’s Workers: Stressed Out, Overwhelmed, Totally Exhausted – Rebecca J. Rosen – The Atlantic.

PTSD Ups Risk for Developing CVD, DM

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Patients diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder are more likely to develop insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome compared with those that are not diagnosed with the disorder, increasing their risk for developing cardiovascular disease or diabetes.

Ebrahimi and colleagues utilized VA electronic medical data to identify the incidence of insulin resistance (defined as triglyceride over HDL cholesterol ratio ≥3.8) and metabolic syndrome in 207,954 patients (mean age 60 years; 14.93% men).

via Patients with PTSD at risk for developing CVD, diabetes | Endocrinology.

Teva’s Adderall 30 mg Tabs – Counterfeit Product – Contains Wrong Active Ingredients

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The counterfeit Adderall tablets are round, white and do not have any type of markings, such as letters or numbers. Authentic Adderall 30 mg tablets produced by Teva are round, orange/peach, and scored tablets with “dp” embossed on one side and “30” on the other side of the tablet.

Adderall contains four active ingredients – dextroamphetamine saccharate, amphetamine aspartate, dextroamphetamine sulfate, and amphetamine sulfate. Instead of these active ingredients, the counterfeit product contained tramadol and acetaminophen, which are ingredients in medicines used to treat acute pain.

via Safety Alerts for Human Medical Products > Teva’s Adderall 30 mg Tablets: Counterfeit Product – Contains Wrong Active Ingredients.

If you or your child is bouncing off the walls AND you bought Adderall off the Internet, check to see if your tablets are white and have no markings.

 

Berry Good News

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In the current analysis, Elizabeth Devore, an instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and her colleagues addressed the gap in the research by reviewing the eating habits of a single cohort of 16,000 women participating in the Nurses Health Study. During their 50s and 60s, every four years the women answered questions by phone about what they ate. And in their 70s, they came into the lab for six different cognitive function tests. Devore and her team also had information on the women’s education, income and other socioeconomic factors that can affect cognitive function.

 

She and her colleagues focused their attention on berries because rodent studies showed that the key compound in berries, a flavonoid called anthocyanidin, could seep through the blood and into brain tissues — specifically concentrating in the hippocampus, which is responsible for learning and memory. As an antioxidant, flavonoids also fight inflammation and oxidation, both processes that affect aging brain cells.