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  1. self-medicationnoun

    Medication of oneself without professional advice in order to treat a real or imagined condition.

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  1. Self-medication

    Self-medication is a human behavior in which an individual uses unprescribed drugs to treat untreated and often undiagnosed medical ailments. The psychology of such behavior within the specific context of using recreational drugs, psychoactive drugs, alcohol, and other self-soothing forms of behavior to alleviate symptoms of mental distress, stress and anxiety, including mental illnesses and/or psychological trauma, is particularly unique and can serve as a serious detriment to physical and mental health if motivated by addictive mechanisms. Self-medication is often seen as gaining personal independence from established medicine.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-medication in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-medication in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of self-medication in a Sentence

  1. Simone Pika:

    Self-medication — where individuals use plant parts or non-nutritional substances to combat pathogens or parasites — has been observed across multiple animal species including insects, reptiles, birds and mammals, current Biology.Bears two closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, for instance, swallow leaves of plants with anthelmintic( antiparasitic) properties and chew bitter leaves that have chemical properties to kill intestinal parasites.

  2. Kwon Ji-an:

    I was too young and socially immature to digest all the glamour and changes in the environment, and there's no self-medication whatsoever, then how do you respond to all of those vicious online comments? If you explain, they'll dismiss it as an excuse, and if you fight, they'll dislike you even more.

  3. Jim Belushi:

    He was a middle linebacker, i know he had damage to the brain. As soon as alcohol and drugs were available to him I think he went right to( self) medication.

  4. Harold Bursztajn:

    The fundamental dilemma is to distinguish those people who are mad because of their addictions versus those people who are simply bad and are using their addictions as part of self-gratification rather than self-medication, so there's a fundamental distinction.

  5. Nora Volkow:

    For many people, drug and alcohol problems begin as self-medication for other mental health symptoms. Half of people with a substance use disorder have another mental illness at some point, and vice-versa, fragmented and hard-to-access mental health care means that these conditions and addiction often go untreated.


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