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 […]

This is my term for when a mood-disorder patient is put on a medication, the dosage is raised, then another is tried, the dosage of that one raised, etc., in a fast-and-furious effort to find something — anything — that works. While providers often have good intentions behind putting a patient on the “medication mill,” […]

Perhaps no single development has had more of an impact on the treatment of mood disorders, than the discovery of antidepressant medications, and for bipolar folks, mood stabilizers. Medications are the best-known treatments for mood disorders, and they are what most doctors will want to try first, when someone is initially diagnosed.While medications are often […]