Improving the Treatment of Mental and Substance Use Disorders in Primary Care Settings

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Nearly every major policy statement on mental health in the last decade, ranging from the Surgeon General?s Report to the President?s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, has begun with the tenet that mental health is central to overall health and more recent reports have added a corollary-physical health is central to mental health.

Improving the treatment of mental and substance use disorders in primary care settings and improving the medical care of people with serious mental health (MH) and substance use (SU) disorders served in behavioral health (BH) settings has been a growing area of focus over the last decade. The goal of achieving quality of services and outcomes on both sides of the primary care/behavioral health interface is gaining long overdue attention and emphasis. This paper seeks to review the history, structure, and current developments of care at the primary care/behavioral health interface. It focuses on care in the public sector, wh » Read more: Improving the Treatment of Mental and Substance Use Disorders in Primary Care Settings

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Stress, know the signs and how to deal with it for better physical and mental health

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The world where we live in today can hardly be separated with this word “stress”, people spend so much money going to doctors, buying different kinds of medications to feel better. Infact I consider myself to be one of them until I started to do my own research, tried several aproaches personally and realizing what  the cause really is.  I would visit he doctor before at least twice a month but since I strated this routine I have not gone to one in two years.

The signs of stress: Backache,headache, fatigue, indigestion,cold sweats,palpitations,  insomia, nusea, unexplained loose bowel movements or constipation and it the body cannot cope up with it depression comes in and the feeling of hopelessness.

Going to the doctor to help lessen the discomfort caused by stress with the use of medications is adviced and would be of much help to the person. But knowing what to do when you feel stressed inorder that your body would not react so as to have the “str » Read more: Stress, know the signs and how to deal with it for better physical and mental health

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How Mental Health Disorders Can be Caused by Personal Suffering?

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Mental disorders cause immense suffering for the lack of support and damaged social relations. Substance abuse refers to the use of psychoactive substances such as alcohol and recreational drugs.

And the addiction to psychoactive substances

There is high risk for the development of psychoactive substance dependence. Dependence is characterized by deterioration of the normal capacities of behavioral, functional and physiological. There can be a strong desire by the ingestion of drugs despite negative consequences.

The development of tolerance and withdrawal conditions of physical dependence occurs with the indiscriminate use. Drug addiction interferes with general health and family obligations. Efficient mental health is essential for the effective functioning of an individual in society.

Abuse of psychoactive substances can be effectively tackled through the development and periodic assessment of treatment servic » Read more: How Mental Health Disorders Can be Caused by Personal Suffering?

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