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Mental health professionals have long known that certain mental illnesses can run within families and that history weighs heavily on some people who are struggling to decide whether to have children and risk passing it on. Health – Mental disorder – Mental health – Family – Policy and Advocacy

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Prozac is one of the most recognized and recommended prescription drugs for mental illnesses. It has a variety of uses. It is not only used in the treatment of depression in adults and children over the age of 8 years, it is also used in the treatment of Bulimia Nervosa (an eating disorder) in adults; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in adults.

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Prozac (fluoxetine) is a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) and it is used as an antidepressant to treat major depressive disorder (MDD), bulimia nervosa, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).

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Bone-marrow transplants cure mice of hair-pulling compulsionA Nobel Prize-winning University of Utah geneticist discovered that bone marrow transplants cure mutant mice who pull out their hair compulsively. The study provides the first cause-and-effect link between immune system cells and mental illness, and points toward eventual new psychiatric treatments.”We’re showing there is a direct …

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