ANXIETY

ANXIETY

Anxiety disorders affect 18% of American adults. It's not uncommon for someone with an anxiety disorder to also suffer from depression or vice versa. Nearly one-half of those diagnosed with depression are also diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders develop from a complex set of risk factors, including genetics, brain chemistry, personality, and life events. People often experience a general state of worry or fear before confronting something challenging such as a test, examination, recital, or interview. These feelings are easily justified and considered normal. Anxiety is considered a problem when symptoms interfere with a person's ability to sleep or otherwise function. Generally speaking, anxiety occurs when a reaction is out of proportion with what might be normally expected in a situation.

 

TITLE:Improved mood and behavior during treatment with a mineral-vitamin supplement: an open-label case series of children.

AUTHOR:Kaplan BJ, Fisher JE, Crawford SG, Field CJ, Kolb B.

PUBLICATION:

Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.

DATE:2004 Spring;14(1):115-22

ABSTRACT:A group of scientists from three Alberta universities and the Alberta Children’s Hospital published the results of 11 unselected children with mood and behaviour problems. The diagnoses of the children included attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), bipolar disorder, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Asperger syndrome, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), Prader-Willi Syndrome depression, anxiety, and rage. The children were assessed for a minimum of 8 weeks on an adult dose of EMPowerplus, which was well-tolerated. Outcomes were measured with the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS), the Youth Outcome Questionnaire (YOQ), and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). Results: For all 9 children who completed the trial, the micronutrient treatment was clinically beneficial, and all effect sizes were large (>.8). Improvement was significant on the YOQ (measuring children’s mood, physical symptoms, self-harm behaviour, interpersonal relationship problems, social problems, and attention problems), the YMRS (measuring symptoms such as irritability and disruptive aggressive behaviours), and 7 of the 8 CBCL scales (withdrawn behaviour, anxious/depressed mood, social problems, thought problems, attention problems, delinquent behaviour, and aggressive behaviour)