Treatment of Depression with Medications, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Changes

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Blog Postings and Excerpts from Before You Take That Pill on Depression

Blog Postings

May 2, 2008.
Is Your Birth Control Pill Driving You Crazy?
A collective howl is going up amongst women over at medications.com over the
birth control pill, Yasmin. These women are complaining of depression,
anxiety, loss of sex drive, headaches, and dizziness... [more]

March 27, 2008.
If They Don't Kill Us They Will Drive Us Crazy
Now it looks like Merck is going to join the rosters of pharmaceutical companies like
Hoffmann La Roche that make prescription medications for asthma, acne, bird flu and malaria that
are associated with psychiatric side effects like anxiety, depression and psychosis... [more]

February 19, 2008.
Prozac Made Me Do It
A record number of comments (over 300) were generated at pharmalot.com over an article written
about the gunman from Northern Illinois University, 27-year-old Stephen Kazmierczak, going
on a shooting spree and the speculation that he may have been withdrawing from an
SSRI (he was, Prozac)... [read more]

January 17, 2008
Delays and Suppression of Clinical Trial Results
Often the distortions associated with how well a drug works results from the fact that
the clinical trial study data is never published. For example, analysis of data from studies
of antidepressant medications showed that data for paxil that were viewed
as having positive results by the FDA were published in medical journals, while those that
were viewed by the FDA as negative were less likely to be published... [FULL ARTICLE]

September 28, 2007.
Gene Linked to Increased Suicidality While On Antidepressants.
Todays health news is in my area of psychiatry, namely that
genetic markers identify individuals at increased risk of suicidality while taking antidepressants [more]...

Articles and book excerpts

St John's Wort for Depression? Should I Try It?
We're all looking for alternatives to prescription medications for depression.
One example of a natural herb that is available without a prescription is
the natural herb St John's wort (Hypericum perforatum); but does it work for depression and
are there any serious side effects? [read more]

Can Changing Your Diet Help Your Depression?
Our impulse is to take an antidepressant for depression. But can simple things, like changing your
diet, help as well? A number of foods can affect your mood, and changing your diet may help perk you up.

Herbs and Supplements for the Treatment of Depression - Do They Work and Are They Safe?
Prescription medications for depression have side effects and it isn't clear that they work all that effectively.
How about natural remedies? Are there herbs or supplements that help depression, like S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe),
kava, valerian, or St John's wort, do they work and do they have any serious side effects I should worry
about when taking them? [read more]

Exercise in the Treatment of Depression
Many of us think about taking a prescription medication when we develop depression, but did you know
that exercise can work just as well as antidepressants like prozac in the treatment of depression? And
without serious side effects? [read more]

Do Antidepressants Make You Suicidal?
Do SSRIs and other antidepressants actually work? Or do they make you suicidal? Is the
risk of antidepressants greater than the benefits? [read more]

My book 'Before You Take That Pill: Why the Drug Industry May be Bad for Your Health:
Risks and Side Effects You Won't Find on the Label of Commonly Prescribed Drugs, Vitamins, and Supplements'
is now available at amazon and at local Borders and Barnes and Noble book stores.

Doug Bremner, MD, is a physician
and researcher in Atlanta GA
and author of Before You Take That Pill:
Why the Drug Industry May be
Bad for Your Health

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