It’s a scandal! Of course antidepressants don’t work, and their makers know it! Now we have proof!… uh, guess again, folks … the real story here isn’t entirely what you may think it is. Here’s a sample story on this revelation (this one from the New York Times):The makers of antidepressants like Prozac and Paxil […]

As I do most days I just did a Google News search on “bipolar disorder.” I noticed that most of the top-listed stories were about Britney Spears and her latest pathetic publicity stunt; I didn’t actually read the stories but from the headlines I surmise that rumor has it she’s bipolar.My first thought was, “Whew! […]

I hadn’t spent more than a couple months in the world of psychiatry, before I realized that having more than one diagnosis was common. But a recent news item actually backs up this intuition with hard data:A new study discovers a majority of psychiatry outpatients have more than one disorder, and more than one-third have […]

I came across a review at Slate, the online magazine, of a book on ECT, commonly referred to as “shock therapy.” It offered a view of ECT that one rarely sees anywhere else in the media; namely that it’s a powerful treatment for mood disorders, and that the visions of it that Hollywood has conjured […]