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Richard Kadison, chief of Mental Health Service at University Health Services (UHS), began the discussion with a survey of available anti-depressant medication and an overview of Harvard’s use of popular anti-depressants like Prozac and Zoloft...
...took a pill called Zoloft that a lot of people take. Did it help? I don't know. I felt I was quite depressed with the pills...
Still, most psychiatrists see increased use of the new breed of antidepressants--which includes Paxil, Zoloft and Sarafem--as a positive development. Clinical depression, as Andrea Yates's case reminds us, is a dangerous illness that may drive mothers to kill their babies, fathers to commit suicide and schoolchildren to start shooting their classmates. Most depression in the U.S., says Dr. Darrel Regier of the American Psychiatric Association, still goes untreated. If you or someone you love is suffering crying spells, feeling inappropriately guilty, thinking about suicide or having trouble eating or sleeping, don't ignore the symptoms. You should...
Channing’s Styron has spent her entire life subduing her femininity in order to climb the corporate ladder, sacrificing a marriage and the chance for a family to a hectic work schedule and briefcase full of Valium and Zoloft. Stiles’ Murphy, in contrast, exploits being female, teasing men in elevators, coming on to Styron and punishing men. The dynamic and growing relationship between the two causes Styron to question her life choices, but also causes Murphy to escalate her exploitations. The characters serve the story nicely, but Murphy is too extreme; audience members might find themselves...
...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 report success with cognitive behavior therapy, alone or in combination with medication. The therapy focuses...