... up the body. Whether taken by injection or the pill it increases strength and endurance. Steroids also help in the healing process of muscular tissue by first injuring them, then the muscles heal quicker adding more fiber increasing their bulk. Many athletes turn to steroids more often because they're cheaper then marijuana or cocaine. A ten week cycle of testosterone cypinate and methandrostone costs only about one hundred dollars. Steroids are also very hard to trace because of their water base composition. They can pass through the body within two days. All these benefits of steroids help an athletes become more competitive and increase their chance of being a ...

... mild forms of mania are hypomania and the milder expressions of Bipolar disorder are called cyclothymic disorders. The use of the term primary affective disorder refers to the individuals who had no previous psychiatric disorders or else only episodes of mania or depression. Secondary affective disorder refers to patients with preexisting psychiatric illness other than depression or mania (Goodwin, Guze. 1989, p.7 ). Bipolar affective disorder affects approximately one percent or three million persons in the United States, afflicting both males and females. Bipolar disorder involves episodes of mania and depression. The manic episodes are characterize ...

... she has entered a stressful state and is characterized by psychological signs (Hardy et al., 1996). Those three definitions now being clarified, another important point that needs to be made is the difference between state and trait anxiety. While state anxiety can be considered to be more situational in nature and is often associated with arousal of the autonomic nervous system. Trait anxiety can be thought of as a world view that in individual uses when coping with situations in his or her environment (Speilberger, 1996). Trait anxiety influences performances in that individuals with high trait anxiety will attend more information related to state anxiety (har ...

... of Mental Health (NIMH), the Federal agency responsible for conducting and supporting research related to mental disorders, mental health, and the brain, is conducting a nationwide education program on anxiety disorder, a group of illnesses. The program's purpose is to educate the public and health care professionals about the disorder and encourage people with it to obtain effective treatments. To continue , in a panic disorder, brief episodes of intense fear are accompanied by multiple physical symptoms (such as heart palpitations and dizziness) that occur repeatedly and unexpectedly in the absence of any external threat. These “panic attacks,” which are th ...

... pickles, onions are also absorbed. In the stomach, which is a muscle, the food is churned about while digestive juices pour int from glands in the stomach wall. Eventually, the the churning action moves food out of the stomach and into the small intestine. The lever contributes to this digestive process by secreting into the small intestine, a liquid called bile. The pancreas secretes pancreatic juice which further aids in dissolving food. The small intestine undergoes continual muscular contractions called peristalses. This action pushes food into the large intestine. This surface of the small intestine has a large number of threadlike projection ...

... suffering already occurring. Under the first of these, for a physician or other caregiver to extend mercy to a suffering patient may mean to refrain from procedures that cause further suffering-provided, of course, that the treatment offers the patient no overriding benefits. The physician must refrain from ordering painful tests, therapies, or surgical procedures when they cannot alleviate suffering or contribute to a patient's improvement or cure. Perhaps the most familiar contemporary medical example is the treatment of burn victims when survival is unprecedented; if with the treatments or without them the chances of the patient's survival is nil, mercy requires ...

... on when this stage will come or pass. The time of retirement, and when all the children have left, is called the empty nest. For most parents, this is the threshold of their lives and usually includes a large lifestyle change. They have the crisis of losing their role as a parent and needing to find a new sense of identity without this role. Feelings that come with this part of the crisis include depression, self-doubt, heartache and low spirits. They must also handle any kind of regret or feeling of failure about their time and place as a parent. As a mid-life parent, some people (mostly women) can feel caught in the "sandwich generation". This means they are ...

... There are many general assumptions made in regard to suicide. Most believe suicide to be caused by mental illness such as major depression or bipolar disorder. Another belief is that the emotional escalation leading to action takes place over a long period of time. Such is not the case in jail suicides. Much of the research shows that "of all [jail] suicides occur within the first twenty four hours of incarceration, and an overwhelming number of these take place in the first three hours of isolation which is referred to as the “crisis period" (Hess 1987). The crisis period is reflective of arrest and incarceration as producing extreme confusion, fear, and anxiety. T ...

... good without it. The physical dependence an alcoholic has is when their body becomes so used to the drug that it now needs alcohol to function without pain. Alcoholism is not a disease experienced only by adults. Alcoholism, like any illness, can strike at any age. Ten percent of the adult drinkers in the U.S are considered alcoholics or at least experience drinking problems to some degree. Surveys have shown that more than one out of three Americans have a personal friend or relative who has had a drinking problem for ten years or longer. Almost two out of three Americans report that they know someone who drinks too much. It is estimated that there are 18 m ...

... of sucrose and water leads to the most respiratory activity, ten large test tubes were set with different concentrations by the process of serial dilution. The first test tube was filled with 40 ml of 60% sucrose solution. Then, the nine remaining test tubes were serially diluted, so that the sucrose concentration ranged from 30% to 0.12%. The hypothesis in this expriment was that the most respiratory activity would take place with 60% sucrose concentration. Since yeast fermentation requires sucrose and water, aproximately equal proportions of both would yield to the most respiratory activity. Once the sucrose concentration was serially cut to the desired leve ...