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Medication for mental health
What is Modalert prescribed for?
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Solid advice already gave you the link to Wikipedia so I won't repeat that but its real thorough in what it tells you about this. No one here that I know of is a Dr. So we can't prescribe things. I only share from experience. Modafinil is something I have heard of because my husbands uncle was prescribed that for narcolepsy. That is a disease where people can't stay awake during waking hours and fall asleep middle of eating dinner, sitting on the potty, and with no warning. I read of it used for some schizophrenia but that is not one I have ever heard of and I used to be a caregiver for a schizophrenic client. I don't think it is prescribed for the things you list such as depression, stress, anxiety, low moods which mean there is a high too as in bi-polar. The things you are mentioning are mental health issues and Drs prescribe other things for that. Although in many cases, its merely a need for the patient to become trained in how to think healthier mentally, and things to do to overcome anxieties and so on. I used to have severe social anxiety and prayed. What I heard from God, worked so well I was cured in a couple months but I really applied myself. Shockingly years later I read a book of a psychologist who mentioned the same things I did to get over my anxieties and none of it involved any medication.
It sounds to me like you are trying to treat yourself without seeing a Dr. or have seen them and it hasn't helped. If you have tried medications for mental health with no good results, it may be because that is not going to work for you as it is not the right treatment. According to the Dr. whose book I read, there is something that helps people with most those things you put in a list, the method is called CBT for short, Cognitive behavioral therapy. It worked so well once this Dr. tried it on a patient that he tried it with all his patients who were taking meds but still had issues. They were cured at a rate of approx 9 out of 10 being cured because it is not a physical imbalance in the brain but an emotional one of distorted thinking that causes these problems. So now when I hear of people talking about any kind of mental health issues, I feel bound to share my knowledge in case it helps them. That way you can choose the Dr. you work with, provided insurance if you have, covers a particular Dr. It is still not as common as it should be, with only medication handed out and thats just a bandage on the problem, not curing it. Will a plain bandaid put on an infected cut, heal it? No. It just festers because the cause of the infection wasn't addressed. So if you are disallusioned with Dr.s I suggest you check out one who is trained in CBT.
Now, Modafinil can be bought without prescriptions, and thats why many college students use it. It helps them to be alert when tired from studying too long into the night, and have a greater chance at taking a test. Our military and some others around the world allow use of it for their military who may have to go on long missions without sleep because it helps keep you awake and alert. wakefulness will not deal with mental health issues. You might actually do worse. If I were having mental issues, I sure wouldnt want to be awake longer to suffer through them. There are side effects. Look at the links in the Wiki report on the side effects, and it will show charts or show people with the side effects, some to skin, that can happen with this. So it is best if you see a Dr. and tell them what you suffer from truly, and ask if Modafinel or its generic Modalert, would help you. Another problem is using this so much that you are awake more than you get sleep and over time you will become sick with issues that stem from sleep deprivation.
Older men sometimes have issues peeing easily and have to get up so many times in the night, (family member I know of) that they sometimes didnt get enough sleep and feel as if they might fall asleep while driving. And thats the only time they will take one of these pills to stay awake if needing to drive, and if not, taking a nap in middle of day if the best cure if not having enough sleep and your body wanting to fall asleep for that reaseon or for those with narcolepsy, the sleeping disease, where you sleep too much and at the drop of a hat.
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Known by several names it has been used to treat narcolypsy, Schizophrenics and anxiety. However, it does have some pretty bad side-effects and studies against it being used. Doctors tend to know how it should be. This Wikipedia link will tell you all you wanted to know: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
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