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Category: Depression
Anxiety over antidepressants
Modern anti-depressants, for which Americans spent more than $5.6 billion last year, have been a huge boon, partly because they have few disastrous side effects, even in overdose. With older, “tricyclic” anti-depressants like Elavil, for instance, “a 10-day supply could kill you,” says Dr. Michael Jenike, associate chief of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. The…
Fish oil seen cutting risk of Mental Illness
Fish oils that are already believed to reduce the risk of heart disease may help combat a number of serious psychiatric illnesses as well, researchers said yesterday. At an international conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, scientists said that though the data are preliminary, a growing body of evidence suggests that higher consumption…
New depression therapy intriguing
For years, severely depressed people have had one last resort if antidepressant drugs and talking therapy failed: ECT or electroconvulsive therapy — better known as “shock” therapy. In ECT, electrodes placed on the scalp send electrical pulses to the brain, which, to be effective, must be strong enough to trigger a seizure. To prevent pain…
Is there a “hidden epidemic” of male depression?
Alan Schlingenbaum, a 43-year-old computer consultant in Wellesley, was a regular guy. Which is to say, he got his work done and acted “the way a male acts on the world,” he says. What he “wasn’t so good at” was intimacy — with his wife, his friends and himself. His wife — now his ex-wife…
Herb found to aid mild depression
Karin Taylor, 58, a tax accountant in Toronto, was stumped. She had a good marriage, two “wonderful kids,” and a job she loved. “I had no reason whatsoever to feel depressed,” she says. “Yet there it was.” Sure, she was aware in the back of her mind of her family history of depression, including three…
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