Posts Tagged ‘antidepressant’

Misunderstood Epidemic: Depression

Written by John on May 10th, 2010
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Video made available by Ironzeal This video is a short preview of one of the best films on depression I’ve seen. Broadcast originally on PBS last fall, The Misunderstood Epidemic is being shown again on a varying schedule around the country. If you miss it, you can get a copy of the DVD at a [...]

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Tags: antidepressant, depression, documentary, marriage, Recovery
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Prozac for Crowd Control?

Written by John on February 21st, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by Image Zen at Flickr I’ve heard of a number of off-label uses for antidepressants, but turning them into non-lethal weapons for crowd control is a new one for me. The Soft-Kill Solution in the March Harper’s describes research on the use of “calmatives” or central nervous system depressants for just this [...]

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Tags: antidepressant, Pentagon, research
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Feeling Fine on Prozac

Written by John on March 1st, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by (le)doo at Flickr. Medication is a hot subject on the internet, so I need to say up front that I’m not opposed to the use of medications to treat long-term depression. I have a live-and-let-live attitude about treatment. Finding anything that works for each person is the key, with or without [...]

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Tags: antidepressant, distance, emotion, medication, neurotransmitters, Peter Kramer, prozac, Recovery, serotonin, treatment, wife, withdrawal
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