PROZAC

Prozac is often prescribed to treat anxiety disorders, bulimia and bipolar disorder. The medication restores and maintains the brain’s serotonin levels which enables individuals to control their anxiety, phobias, depression, fear and moods.
Maniac depression is a type of mental illness also called bipolar disorder. The causes can be situational, neurological, emotional or biological. The actual causes of bipolar disorder have not yet been discovered. However, imbalances of the brain’s neurotransmitters such as serotonin are partially to blame for bipolar disorder in certain individuals.
Individuals who suffer from the eating disorder called bulimia tend to eat excessively before purging themselves of the digested food via induced bowel movements or vomiting. Environmental, emotional or psychological factors can cause bulimia. The emotional factors involves are extremely similar to those causing low self-esteem or depression associated with the brain’s serotonin levels.
Erratic fluctuations in brain chemistry cause anxiety disorders. Anxiety is defined as an intense feeling that something very bad is about to occur. Almost everyone suffers from anxiety at some point in their life, but most people have a logical reason to feel this way. The difference is that anxiety disorders have unknown or illogical causes.
Prozac is an effective treatment option for anxiety, bulimia and bipolar disorder. The drug works by increasing the levels of serotonin in the brain. Bipolar patients often take Prozac with other types of medications. Prozac is very effective for treatment depression, but it may make manic episodes even worse. That is why the drug is usually prescribed with an anti-psychotic drug to reduce manic episodes. Counseling or therapy sessions are also common treatment options.

Prozac is often the only medication prescribe to individuals suffering from bulimia. However, it is usually combined with therapy and counseling. Counseling helps patients realize why they suffer from low self worth and to help them realize that what they believe is not actually reality. This is very effective for bulimia sufferers who have a distorted image of their body which causes them to binge and purge.

Prozac is a successful treatment option for anxiety sufferers, as long as counseling is also involved. Patients learn techniques to overcome anxiety by rationalizing situations that they initially appear are not rational. For example, if a patient is overly concerned about a cigarette that is burning in an ashtray, they may learn skills to enable their mind to realize that their danger of fire is illogical. Combining these techniques with Prozac can be very effective as an anxiety treatment.

Prozac successfully works on those suffering from anxiety. However, counseling may also be a part of treatment. In therapy sessions, patients may learn techniques to overcome anxiety by way of rationalization of situations that may not at first appear rational. To give an example, if the subject is restless about a cigarette burning in an ashtray, they can learn skills to allow their mind to logically analyze the event and understand that the danger from fire is illusionary, and so no reason for the anxiety. These techniques are very successful in conjunction with Prozac for treating anxiety.