Antidepressants – drugs used for the treatment of major depressive disorder & other conditions, may be used for a wide range of psychiatric conditions.
There are a number of reasons that determine the commercial success of benzodiazepines. First: they effectively help with anxiety and cause sleep. Indeed, benzodiazepines are uniquely effective as tranquilizers. It is true that they weaken anxiety (as was proven in experiments with people and animals) at doses that do not cause movement disorders (ataxia) and […]
Read MoreAs already noted, depressants have many features. Alcohol, barbiturates, non-barbiturate sedatives and, of course, benzodiazepines have a similar effect at equivalent dosage. In addition, there is cross tolerance between them. They can reinforce each other. There is also cross-dependence, since the appropriate dose of any depressant can be used to reduce the withdrawal symptoms caused […]
Read MoreSoothing agents, known as tranquilizers or anxiolytics, are intended to treat the psychological and physiological symptoms of a restless state. It is difficult to give an exhaustive definition of anxiety, but descriptions of the many phenomena associated with it are given. However, anxiety is often described by several or all of the four symptoms cited: […]
Read MoreUntil the twentieth century, the usual method of preventing the symptoms of anxiety was drinking alcohol, probably the oldest method of sedation. Up to the 1950s, anxiety was treated with bromine salts (which are sold without a prescription) and barbiturates. The latter reduced the symptoms of anxiety due to the general suppression of all body […]
Read MoreSeveral barbaric restfuls were introduced in the 1950s, 1960s, as a possible alternative to combat anxiety and insomnia. In this direction, meprobamate (Equanil), etchlorvinol (Placidyl), and glutahimide (Doriden) were used, but each of them had side effects similar to those of barbiturates. Methaqualone, termed Quaalude and Sopor in 1965, was considered a promising replacement for […]
Read MoreAs noted above, barbiturates were once widely used as a sedative hypnotic, but recently, with the exception of certain specialized uses, they have been replaced by safer benzodiazepines. High-speed barbiturates are still used for anesthesia, and are also used to relieve convulsions during critical situations and prevent attacks of certain types of epilepsy. Tolerance, Dependence […]
Read MoreMany sedatives, including chloroform, chloral hydrate and paraldehyde, were introduced into medicine in the nineteenth century, but the next, really significant turn was the discovery of barbiturates in 1862. The first barbiturate was opened in the laboratories of Bauer in Munich. Barbiturates were found among many other substances in the urine, and many believe that […]
Read MoreAlthough alcohol is the prototype of depressant drugs, today there are a number of drugs that can suppress the central nervous system and behavior. They include many different chemical compounds, but especially barbiturates, benzodiazepines, a certain amount of non-barbitrate sedatives and common anesthetics are distinguished from them. These drugs are often classified according to their […]
Read MoreTo make it easier to navigate in a very large variety of mental states, it is most convenient, in my opinion, to divide all this diversity into three main categories, into three main groups. The first group is the norm. Without going into scientific formulations and discussions about what a norm is, I will characterize […]
Read MoreI stress once again: words and their mental images, if applied correctly, can cause such changes in our consciousness, in our body that correspond to these words and their mental images. All variety of mental images that can be used for self-mobilization, conveniently divided into three groups. The first group is figurative representations associated with […]
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