Antidepressants

When panic attacks!
America is the most anxious country on the planet. So will I ever learn to live with my fear, racing heart and disaster scenarios?
My business trip ended with me in four-point restraints!
I drank some wine, took my pills, boarded the plane and woke up on a gurney!
A nation of individualists
We work hard to be odd and to have unique problems, but there are a few things we share: A dark imagination, a love of spring, and serotonin.
Don't be happy, worry
Awash in antidepressants, America is manipulated by Big Pharma and numbed out to basic, and inevitable, human pain -- or so argue critics of our serotonin nation.
I know in my heart I'm going to leave my husband ... but when and how?
There is no way I can deny the way I feel -- but I do wish the path was clear.
Troubling ties in pregnancy and antidepressants study
Authors of study on pregnant women and antidepressants were paid consultants for drug makers.
Pregnancy and antidepressants
News raises more confounding concerns for depressed expectant mothers.
Weighing the risks of antidepressants during pregnancy
The medication could be temporarily harmful to babies. Not taking it could be devastating to depressed mothers.
Wonderful Wellbutrin?
Most antidepressants suppress sex drive, but some new evidence suggests this one might be different.
Sex, capitalism and antidepressants
By Rick Moody and Mary Gaitskill
Happiness is back
By Andreas Killen
Prozac indignation
How a little-known Harvard clinician needled sleeping giant Eli Lilly
Sex-free bliss?
Depressed people often have to choose between drug-induced happiness and sexual fulfillment.
Psych meds for kids: Too much, too soon?
Some psychiatric drugs do help children, but school and family are crucial, too.
Kids on drugs
A behavioral pediatrician questions the wisdom of medicating our children.
From diapers to drugs
A new study shows a three-fold increase in mind-altering drugs being given to preschoolers.
Mixed meds
Think twice before mixing your herbs and your prescription medicine.
Letters to the Editor
Do criminals deserve prison rapes? Plus: Funeral parlors, drugs and Dubya; faking depression.
My antidepressant made me do it!
The Hartman estate says Zoloft was to blame for a murder-suicide.
Letters to the Editor
It's easier to dope kids up than to deal with their problems; blame the system, not Henry Louis Gates.
Johnny get your pills
Are we overmedicating our kids?
The Awful Truth
Better Living Thru Chemistry

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