8 Lundbeck Magasinet2008 Magazine 2008 despite all that has happened during recent years, the prejudice surrounding mental disorders continues to flourish. as a patient, one does not speak as freely and willingly about a depression or psychosis as one speaks about a broken leg. one can often discern a sense of embarrassment that is associated with the feeling that mental problems somehow reflect personal weakness. Here, brain research can play a decisive role. Because, in revealing that all aspects of our psyche are the direct result of biological phenomena, science is making it evident that, in reality, there is no difference between physical and mental disorders. Fundamentally, both are organic injuries or chemical imbalances that just happen to affect either the body or the nervous system. there is also another important parallel. Modern research shows that mental disorders arise in exactly the same way as diabetes, cardiovascular and other common diseases, namely as a combination of genetics and environment. one is born with a certain amount of genetic disposition or sensitivity which can be activated by a number of external factors. again: there is a fundamental commonality between the mental and the physical. once this recognition is absorbed by our culture and regarded as self-evident, the age-old stigmatization of psychiatric disorders will unavoidably fade and disappear. terrible sense of anguish. But i perceived it as external pain that was caused by unfortunate circumstances. i was unhappy because my life was a failure. When i finally saw a doctor, however, she was not long in diagnosing depression that required treatment, and the treatment was one of the well-known ssri antidepressants. and then things began happening. after a week, it was as if my raw pain had been wrapped in a layer of insulating cotton wool, and several weeks later my dark despair had totally disappeared. there were absolutely no external reasons for the change; not the slightest change in my life or my circumstances. it was only the chemical effect. Depression my eye-opener there is also something to be gained at the personal level in the growing knowledge of the brain. accepting that the psyche is a matter of physiology can result in a basic acceptance of a mental disorder. and at the same time, acceptance can make it much easier to live with ones condition. i myself have experienced it very strongly in connection with a depression which i initially would not acknowledge, and for which i would not seek treatment. it was a sequence which began with a steady decline in mood that was impossible to restore. eventually, it was no longer a question of melancholy and gloom; i was in a state of total and utter despair. i could just manage to get up in the morning and drag myself through a day at work, but i fell apart as soon as i was alone within the confines of my own four walls. i could weep or just stare at a wall for hours on end and had a The brain and the self-perception and this is precisely the point. the pills illustrated very clearly that my pain had a chemical and physiological content, and that it was not existential. it was not external. in any case, it is possible to change it chemically from the inside. When i saw myself as incompetent and the world as evil, it was because i was receiving the world through a specific chemical filter. and it was possible to change that filter.
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Contents LUNDBECK MAGAZINE 2008 120 million persons page 22 strategy in place for new drugs page 1
Lundbeck Magazine 2008 3 My brAin, My self page 6 Anxiety is nAturAl, PAnic is not page 14 untreAt
4 Lundbeck Magasinet 2008 creating the future now
Lundbeck Magazine 2008 5 t Lundbeck, the futures demand for new drugs is the pivot of our activiti
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Lundbeck Magazine 2008 7 My brain, my self n last years danish thriller Love on Film there is a ve
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Lundbeck Magazine 2008 9 Modern research shows that mental disorders arise in exactly the same way
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Lundbeck Magazine 2008 11 strategy in place for new drugs Jan egebjerg, Divisional Director of mol
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Lundbeck Magazine 2008 13 We believe that in the future it will be possible to make far more preci
14 Lundbeck Magasinet2008 Magazine 2008 Anxiety is natural, panic is not Working as an anxiety the
Lundbeck Magazine 2008 15 anxiety and panic affect not only the quality of the patients life to a
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Lundbeck Magazine 2008 17 untreated depression is terrible eric Wainwright is a psychiatrist and h
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19 reaching the target groups creating an online community is of course not enough. We have to let
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21 i have even started dreaming of getting a house by the sea. pHoto: nicky Bonne
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persons There are 120 million persons in the countries that make up the Lundbeck Middle east region:
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Lundbeck Magazine 2008 31 pHoto: lars BecH made a great deal of effort to train specialists in di
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Lundbeck Magazine 2008 47 Prepared for the future human resources Director marie-claude Ballandra
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