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...ideal answer to mental illness. Most experts believe that drugs are most effective when combined with talk therapy or other counseling. Nonetheless, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry now lists dozens of medications available for troubled kids, from the comparatively familiar Ritalin (for ADHD) to Zoloft and Celexa (for depression) to less familiar ones like Seroquel, Tegretol, Depakote (for bipolar disorder), and more are coming along all the time. There are stimulants, mood stabilizers, sleep medications, antidepressants, anticonvulsants, antipsychotics, antianxieties and narrowcast drugs to deal with impulsiveness and post-traumatic flashbacks. A few of the newest meds were...
...name and massive marketing campaign, it didn't just take over the market for antidepressants; it expanded that market many times over, quickly becoming one of the world's best-selling drugs. Although originally approved only for adults with "symptoms of depressive illness," Prozac and its imitators (Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, Luvox) are taken today by millions of patients--including more and more children--who don't necessarily meet the textbook criteria for clinical depression. Veterinarians have even made Prozac their No. 1 choice for dogs with the blues...
...swell. Then he switched to Topamax, which made him lethargic. Eventually he was put on a mix of Tegretol and Risperdal, which have stabilized him with few side effects. Kyle Broman in Los Angeles is having a harder time but has grown calmer on a combination of Risperdal and Celexa, an antidepressant that for now at least does not appear to be flipping him into mania...
...condition can be treated, so if you still think this describes you, speak to a doctor. Just last month, researchers at the University of Cincinnati found that binge eaters who took the antidepressant Celexa for six weeks decreased the number of binge episodes they experienced. Only 40 patients were studied, so the results are still preliminary. Other antidepressant drugs, like Prozac and Zoloft have already been shown effective in cases of binge eating's relative, bulimia. Most likely they work because antidepressants normalize levels of serotonin, a brain chemical that doctors think may be involved in controlling appetite. Practitioners also...
...ANTI-SHOPPING PILL Drug companies are always alert for new and profitable uses for their products, and now Forest Laboratories reports--just in time for the holidays--that its antidepressant Celexa is effective against compulsive-shopping disorders. Shop-till-you-drop seems to be a real syndrome; sufferers consumed by the need to buy are often plunged into debt as a result. Now research financed by Forest shows that within three months of taking Celexa, nearly 80% of the 21 patients studied experienced improved symptoms...