Depression And Processed Foods And How Exercising Helps Deal With Depression

Depression And Processed Foods And How Exercising Helps Deal With Depression

Depression And Processed Foods And How Exercising Helps Deal With Depression

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Introduction

Depression is a usual disorder that bedevils many people in the world. Research indicates that women are twice likely hit by the problem than men during their lifetime. The problem can occur at any stage of a person’s life regardless of their ethnicity, income, race, and education. Depression is a significant public health issue that brings about suffering, diminishes functioning and health and may lead to economic burden to the society, personal, and third-party payers. When proper treatment is not sought, the disorder may have a disabling influence that results in poor self-care, personal suffering, impaired personal relationships, and lack of follow-up of medical treatments, substance-use, and physical illness, loss of income, self harm, and even suicide (Johanson, 2008).

The subject under study is an elderly woman who got used to taking huge consumption of processed food. The woman was a client at Compcare. The reason for her choice is because assessment and follow-up get easier and cheaper. Pharmacological medication and exercise is the form of treatment used for the patient. The study took a period of one month. It started on May 23rd, 2013 and ended on June 23rd, 2013. Most studies on use of processed food focuses on clinical recognition, prevalence, assessment, and treatment. The above study focuses use of processed food and the effectiveness of various intervention methods. The client was under the supervision of a therapist and the agreement made was for her to cut down on consuming processed food and execise so as to reduce depression. Counting the number of times the client defaulted those agreements formed the basis for assessment. The subject signed an Informed Consent Form (Appemdix).

Consuming processed food results in symptoms brought about by disorders and diseases that affect the brain, including (AD) Alzheimer’s disease, strokes, (PD) Parkinson’s disease, and much more. It involves continuous loss of memory and other cognitive senses such as emotional control and problem solving. Research shows that the earliest stage that one gets diagnosed with the problem is commonly called MCI (mild cognitive impairment). As the problem advances, the victim’s ability to conduct instrumental and daily activities gets impaired.

Psychological and behavioral signs of depression from taking processed food , also called neuropsychiatric symptoms of depression, affect almost all who take processed food during illness and often manifest during the first stages. Developed classifications on depression indicate that processed food consumption falls into two groups. One is behavioral and the other is psychological. Behavioral gets identified through observation of the patient, and include wandering, screaming, restlessness, sexual disinhibition, cursing, physical aggression, hoarding, shadowing, and culturally unexpected behaviors. Caregivers and patients give psychological symptoms such as anxiety, depressive moods, delusions, and hallucinations (Witham, 2012).

Processed food have adverse effects in older adults. They cut their quality of life of a patient, increase functional and cognitive decline, and get linked with increased mortality. Moreover, these symptoms give stress to caregivers, and get associated with advanced rates of depression in caregivers. They also add to the risk of institutionalization.

Behavioral symptoms of depresion from taking processed food are usually more distressing and plain to observers than psychological signs, and are generally more common in medium to severe victims. However, psychological signs may bring more harm to the patient during the earlier instances of consuming processed food, as victims develop insight about the effect of the diagnosis on their future life.

For the patient picked, the use antidepressants and antipsychotics was the main form of medication. The woman had more adverse effects of depression in processed food compared to other patients. Men generally suffer less than women from depression caused by taking processed food.

Intervention and rationale

The symptoms exuded by the woman called for an intervention. Screaming, undesirable behaviors, eating a lot of processed food, and restlessness characterized her behavior. These problems formed the basis for the study and treatment. The medication options sought targeted reduction of such behaviors. The treatment option that this document discusses gets based on the most proper approach for reducing depression from processed food. Pharmacological medication is the treatment option used. The form of intervention used was for the patient to reduce most of these behaviors. The exact behaviors under study are: screaming, cursing, and a lot of eating. A reduction in the number of undesirable behaviors would result in a handsome shopping from me and a waiver for her medication. An increase would lead to no waiver and no shopping at all. No behavioral change meant moderate help. This is the most effective method as behavioral change is accompanied by a reward. Rewarding the patient stimulated her behavioral change.

The client was under the supervision of a therapist. The therapist administered treatment to her as he checked her progress. There are both non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatment approaches for the problem. The two intervention methods help in cutting down the depression associated with taking processed food among older adults. Many forms of medications get used, and have varying degrees of success. Non-pharmacological treatments like structured activity programs and behavioral change programs reduce depression, but with modest outcomes. Dosing with gingko biloba extract is a new technique of intervention that has registered success (White, 2009).

Pharmacological treatment got preference to other forms of treatments as it has a higher degree of success compared to other forms of treatment. It works better than non-pharmacological options, which has moderate outcomes.

Pharmacological treatment for depression caused by processed food

Neurotransmitters or receptors targeted by pharmacological therapists include amino acid receptors, cholinergic receptors, and catecholamine receptors. Clinicians have difficulties in treating depression with processed food. Old patients with depressions bear greater comorbid illnesses than non-demented peers, with almost three-fifths of those with AD bearing 3 or greater. This increased level of comorbidity comes from use of many medications. Therefore, polypharmacy and drug interactions help provoke depression in some patients diagnosed with taking a lot of processed food. Because older adults with depressions in processed food have cognitive and physical frailties, they are also susceptible to other adverse effects. Caregivers and clinicians must see patients’ behaviors carefully for evidence of adverse effects when new treatments get introduced because processed food patients communicate rarely. Medication options for the elderly should always take a slower approach. They should start slowly and continues slowly (Greenblat, 2011).

Antidepressants

Antidepressants get prescribed on continuous basis for older adults who take processed food. A recent analysis, in 2007, endorsed treatment of depression with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and tricyclic depressants in patients with depression. The research findings of the analysis indicated that remission and patient treatment response got superior to the placebo response in the joined effort from all the studies. Other reviews support treatment with various antidepressants, such as fluoxetine, trazodone, movlobemide, and sertraline, on depression in taking processed food. Citalopram and sertraline get commonly prescribed. Reviews show trazadone and mirtazapine as other options but there are fewer trials that support their use.

Antipsychotics

Different categories of antipsychotics treat depression with varying levels of success. However, older adults who take haloperidol are at a significant risk of extrapyramidal signs including tardive dyskinesia and parkinsonism. Because of the above reason, most clinicians focus on “atypical” antipsychotics like olanzapine and risperidone, which have vital, thought moderate, effects, and fewer adverse effects than typical antipsychotics at lower doses.

Care is very imperative as both olanzapine and risperidone have increased risks of stroke and associated mortality, and many safety warnings limit their use for treatment of depression in older adults taking processed food. There are disagreements over the real risk involved and people suggest that increased cardiac arrest occur at high doses. Other scholars claim that patients of stroke have other risk factors besides the use of risperidone in processed food (Balch, 2006).

Reduced cholinergic activities, mainly resulting from reduced acetylcholine concenctrations brought about by processed food-linked changes; result from decreased cognitive ability in processed food, and increases in processed food. A review on the effects of rivastigmine on processed food shows that there are positive effects on patients with a range of processed food intake, and that anxiety and apathy form the list of behavioral domains showing the most consistent positive response.

Results

The above approach forms one of the most significant methods of treating depression in taking processed food. After a period of six months whereby the patient was under scrutiny and medication, good results got registered. The patient improved greatly and emerged with less stress than her first state. Earlier symptoms such as restlessness and screaming ceased completely.

The use of pharmacological approach for treatment of depression with processed food is very proper and effective. Antidepressants and antipsychotics have varying levels of success on reduction of depression in processed food. The use of various forms of antipsychotics and antidepressants served the purpose. They greatly cut down on the level of depression for the elderly woman. Since the medication worked well, this paper recommends its use.

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Day of the week Behaviour Total tally

screaming Eating cursing Monday 10 8 12 30

Tuesday 8 6 10 24

Wednesday 4 4 8 16

Thursday 6 3 9 18

Friday 5 3 7 15

Saturday 2 2 6 10

Sunday 2 3 4 9

Appendix

CONSENT TO PARTICIPATE IN A SINGLE SYSTEM RESEARCH DESIGN

I am aware that this research design is being conducted by D.C., who is a Graduate Student at the Rutgers University School of Social Work. This intervention is to fulfill the requirements of a mandatory assignment for Research II, Section 19:910:595, with Professor Raymond Sanchez-Mayers.

The determination is to measure the consequence that moderate exercise, antipsychotics and, antidepressants will have on my consumtions of processed food. I am the only subject participating in this intervention.

The intervention will take 30 days to complete. The data recorded will be on Compcare where I have recently been receiving medication.

I apprehend that the following necessities are essential for this intervention:

Week 1 (Days 1-6) – ingestion of antidepressants

Week 2 (Days 7-12) – ingestion of antidepressants and antipsychotics

Week 3 (Days 13-18) – ingestion of antidepressants and antipsychotics and moderate exercise

Week 4 ( Days 19-28) – exercise only

Every effort will be made to stick to the set schedule for my assessment. The Intervention consists of 10 minutes of warm-up, 15 minutes of brisk walking/slow jog, and 10 minutes of cool down after undergoing pharmacological medication.

I comprehend that there are jeopardies convoluted with any exercise program. I agree to stop the intervention if at any time I feel pain, shortness of breath, or any other symptom of discomfort that seems above and beyond normal exercise symptoms.

It is understood that the benefits of exercising have been shown to parallel a healthy lifestyle, which my focus and reason for volunteering for this research project. I hope to have this be the incentive for me to continue exercising on a frequent basis.

IL (student) for my participation.

If I have any requests about this examination that D.C. is not able to answer, or any complaints regarding this intervention, I may contact Professor Sanchez Mayers at:

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

School of Social Work

536 George Street

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

(732) 932-7520 Ext. 111

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D.R.L. – Research Subject D.C., Student

Date: May 23, 201

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White, D. B. (2009). Overcoming OCD & depression: My personal journey and recovery. New York: Eloquent Books.