A mental disorder or mental illness is a psychological or behavioral pattern that occurs in an individual and is thought to cause disability that is not expected as part of normal development. A mental illness may be possibly caused by several factors such as genetics, environment, and chemical imbalances in the brain. It is called mental simply because usually, the illness does not entail much anatomical dysfunctions. Usually, the disorder involves a thinking that something is wrong when physically, it seemed as if nothing is wrong. The symptoms are more internal rather than external. People may think that it is normal for someone to be talking to himself for a while. However, when this symptom last longer, longer than a certain period and disrupts bodily functions, then a mental illness may be diagnosed.
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Emotions are a part of life. It is part of being human. In fact, it is what makes us human. We laugh when we are happy, we cry when we are sad and disappointed, and we let out our rage when we are furious and mad. And, that is natural. Everyday, we put across different kinds of emotions more than we could imagine. Typically, situations that we encounter trigger these emotions. And the body, as emotional feelings are natural to it, is able to manage with these expressions of emotions through a cycle. As psychologists would say, a person does not feel the same emotion over a very long period of time. What we feel eventually changes. To be specific, the longest time you could feel happy is ten days. After that, the feeling of happiness sinks, probably shifting to anxiety or sadness.
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There is now an available treatment to treat opiate addiction after millions of individual damaged by this drug. Subutex is a combination of two presently marketed medications, buprenorphine and naloxone. It will be used for the treatment of subjects with heroin and opiate addictions. It is a long-acting opiate primarily used to cire narcotic dependence. It is most typically sold as a tablet that dissolves in the tongue. Its main purpose is to stop withdrawal symptoms from occurring in an individual, by stimulating the opiate receptors in the brain. Subutex has high attraction to the opiate receptors than other drugs such as heroin and methadone, whichreduces the longing to take such drugs.
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Addiction has been a problem to society. It is “the” problem that seems to have no end. People use drugs, abuse it, then they become addicted to it. They hurt their loved ones and they hurt their selves. Their lives crave for the drug and become entwined to looking for means of attaining the drugs. Later on, the person then realizes that life has become worthless and meaningless and that he wants to change. He wants to turn away from drugs but the problem is that he couldn’t easily turn away and say good bye to his long time influential friend- the drug.
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To quote Franklin Roosevelt, “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” .
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