Word: prozac
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Those things--whether Lexapro or Ritalin or Prozac or something else--are being done for more and more American children. In fact, they are being done with such frequency that some people have justifiably begun to ask, Are we raising Generation...
...chance at a stable upbringing, Hatten took on the job of raising her, and one of the first things she had to do was get the violent mood swings of the bipolar disorder under control. It's been a long, tough slog. An initial drug combination of Ritalin and Prozac, prescribed when Monica was 6, simply collapsed her alternating depressed and manic moods into a single state with sad and wild features. By the time she was 8, her behavior was so unhinged, her school tried to expel her. Next Monica was switched to Zyprexa, an antipsychotic, that...
What nobody denies is that more research is needed to resolve all these questions--and that it won't be easy to get it started. The first problem is one of time. It was only in the early 1990s that the antidepressant Prozac exploded into pharmacies. It's hard to do a lifetime of longitudinal studies on a drug that's been widely used for just over a decade. And each time the industry invents a new medication, the clock rewinds to zero for that particular pill...
...studying obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) when he noticed it had a lot in common with hypochondria. "Both disorders," he says, "involve intrusive, worrisome thoughts, the need for reassurance and a low tolerance for uncertainty." Psychiatrists had lately come to think that OCD could be treated with Prozac and similar drugs, and Fallon decided the medications might work for hypochondria as well. With only 57 subjects, the study was too small to be definitive, but it was certainly promising: about 75% of those who got the drug showed significant improvement...
...roots of depression are different for men and women, however, the same treatments work equally well for both. The antidepressant revolution begun by Prozac in the early 1990s has transformed the therapeutic landscape. According to a recent study, 37% of people being treated for depression chose the drug option in 1987; 10 years later the percentage had doubled to 75%. And with newer and better antidepressants available all the time, those numbers are growing. Often just as effective as any drug is cognitive therapy, a form of the talking cure that teaches depressives to reframe their view of the world...