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Starbucks: $9.95. The mild house blend placed second with our tasters, who liked the "slightly tangy, full flavor...
TODAY'S TREATMENTS Electroshock therapy, despite its unsavory reputation, is actually quite effective, especially for patients who don't respond to drugs and seniors for whom drug interactions pose problems. The treatment today uses a small current to trigger a mild seizure--a rhythmic firing of neurons--that can push a depressed brain...
Meanwhile, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), better known as shock treatment, resets the electrical state of the brain by inducing a seizure. (Despite ECT's lurid reputation, it involves mild doses of current and can be almost miraculously successful in patients whose depression will not yield to drugs.) Even old-fashioned, low-tech talk therapy can help adjust a patient's brain chemistry and lessen the severity of depression, especially in conjunction with other treatments...
...treating severe depression. The study also showed that Zoloft, one of the most popular prescription antidepressants, did no better than a placebo either, but that result attracted little attention. In the real world, people do not take St.-John's-wort for severe depression--they use it for mild to moderate conditions. Zoloft, on the other hand, is considered a powerful weapon in the ongoing war on mental illness...
...depressed, why shouldn't we all be taking it? Is that the direction we're going, as the drugs become more socially acceptable and heavily marketed? (More than 11 million Americans already take some form of antidepressant.) It's a question that arises only because SSRIs are relatively mild and subtle medications. There are plenty of drugs that can make you feel better, at least temporarily--alcohol and heroin come immediately to mind--but they tend to be addictive or toxic or both. Prozac is neither...