PSYCH 297R Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Anorexia Nervosa, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Mayo Clinic
6 Dec 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
In the us, the national average for the number of drug prescriptions written per person per year is about twelve. Among children eighteen and younger - those who are most susceptible to beginning an eating disorder - the number is four per person. The rate climbs with age, until people in their eighties are written an astonishing average of twenty-nine prescriptions per person. Health care experts believe that medications be used only as a last resort. On its website, the mayo clinic says flatly, no medications are approved to treat anorexia because none has been found to work very well. However, antidepressants or other psychiatric medications can help treat other mental disorders you may also have, such as depression or anxiety. This doesn"t directly address the issue of whether the other disorder such as depression can be a causative agent of an eating disorder, and therefore treating the other disorder can be instrumental in resolving the eating disorder itself.
