America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Health Getting Worse?
The U.S. has reached peak therapy. Counseling has become fodder for hit books, podcasts, and movies. Professional athletes, celebrities, and politicians routinely go public with their mental health struggles. And everyone is talking—correctly or not—in the language of therapy, peppering conversations with references to gaslighting, toxic people, and boundaries.
All this mainstream awareness is reflected in the data too: by the latest federal estimates, about one in eight U.S. adults now takes an antidepressant and one in five has recently received some kind of mental-health care, an increase of almost 15 mil...
Source: TIME: Health - August 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
RFK Jr. Makes Unfounded Claims About Mass Shootings, Covid-19: Here Are All The Conspiracies He Promotes
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promoted a string of conspiracy theories about gun ownership and the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, among others, in a Twitter Spaces discussion Monday as he challenges President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination—these are some of the unfounded claims he gave merit…#robertfkennedyjr #twitterspaces #kennedyjr #twitter #elonmusk #prozac #politifact #rollingstone #georgewbush #democrat (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Millions of Brits are prescribed antidepressants for pain every year, study claims
Around 10 million prescriptions for drugs including amitriptyline and fluoxetine, more commonly known as Prozac, were dished out in the last 12 months for long term pain management. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Most antidepressants prescribed for chronic pain lack reliable evidence of efficacy or safety, scientists warn
Largest ever investigation into antidepressants used for chronic pain shows insufficient evidence to determine how effective or harmful they may be.Study reviewed commonly prescribed medications including amitriptyline, duloxetine, fluoxetine, citalopram, paroxetine, and sertraline.One third of people globally are living with long-term pain with many prescribed antidepressants to relieve symptoms.Most antidepressants used for chronic pain are being prescribed with “insufficient” evidence of their effectiveness, scientists have warned.A major investigation into medications used to manage long-term pain found that harms ...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - May 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news
‘Parachute’ Review: Life After Rehab In Brittany Snow’s Directing Debut
There’s a lot going on in this troubled-girl-on-a-journey story, which recalls the late-’90s proliferation of books like Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation and Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted. Brittany Snow’s directing debut doesn’t so much add to that canon as dust it down a bit for a new…#elizabethwurtzels #susannakaysensgirl #brittanysnow #courtneyeaton #eaton #riley #thomasmann #brooklyn #davebautista #centralcasting (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'The side effects of Prozac made me think I was going mad - but here's why I'm still taking it'
EVE SIMMONS: My meltdown was caused by the pills I was taking to help me cope with stress. It happened two weeks after I'd started on the antidepressant Prozac, also known as fluoxetine. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Serotonin transporter availability in physically aggressive personality disordered patients: associations with trait and state aggression, and response to fluoxetine - Rosell DR, Slifstein M, Thompson J, Xu X, Perez-Rodriguez MM, McClure MM, Hazlett EA, New AS, Nabulsi N, Huang Y, Carson RE, Siever LS, Abi-Dargham A, Koenigsberg HW.
RATIONALE: Characterizing the neuroanatomical basis of serotonergic abnormalities in severe, chronic, impulsive aggression will allow for rational treatment selection, development of novel therapeutics, and biomarkers to identify at-risk individuals. ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
UCLA-developed soft brain probe could be a boon for depression research
Key takeawaysUCLA chemists ’ new probe is outfitted with biosensors designed to track specific neurotransmitters like serotonin.The probe is flexible enough to monitor the brains of research subjects as they move and perform everyday activities.The ability to continuously measure neurotransmitters would improve our understanding of how these chemicals affect psychological states.Anyone familiar with antidepressants like Prozac or Wellbutrin knows that these drugs boost levels of neurotransmitters in the brain like serotonin and dopamine, which are known to play an important role in mood and behavior.It might come as a su...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - December 16, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Can fluoxetine combined with cognitive behavioral therapy reduce the suicide and non-suicidal self-injury incidence and recurrence rate in depressed adolescents compared with fluoxetine alone? A meta-analysis - Liu W, Li G, Wang C, Yu M, Zhu MY, Yang L.
OBJECTIVE: The efficacy of medication and psychotherapy for adolescent depression is controversial, so we conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy of combination therapy. METHODS: We followed the PRISMA checklist in completing the meta-an... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 14, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
EVE SIMMONS: How Prozac got me over a six-month bump in the road as a school girl
EVE SIMMONS: I took antidepressants for the first time a few weeks before my 16th birthday. It was three weeks into my first and most gruelling episode of all-consuming, paralysing anxiety. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 12, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Early Promise With Fluoxetine for Refractory Nocturnal Enuresis in Children
(MedPage Today) -- Children with refractory primary monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis (PMNE) obtained significant short-term symptom relief with the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) fluoxetine, a small placebo-controlled trial showed... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - November 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Louisiana man's skin turns dark black after bizarre reaction to common anti-depressant
Tyler Monk, from Louisiana, was prescribed Prozac in May 2021 following a diagnosis for depression and anxiety. Within a week, the 34-year-old's his skin began changing to a gray color. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 26, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Prozac could treat eye condition that affects half a million people, analysis suggests
Animal research by the same team of scientists who analysed the data also found that the drug - which costs £2 a pill - slows down the rate at which age-related macular degeneration progresses. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Repurposing drugs to treat age-related macular degeneration
Researchers found that the antidepressant fluoxetine blocks the inflammation that leads to dry age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, a common cause of vision loss. (Source: NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH))
Source: NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - November 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Patient and clinical factors associated with response to medications for posttraumatic stress disorder - Shiner BR, Gui J, Rozema L, Cornelius SL, Dufort V, Schnurr PP, Watts BV.
OBJECTIVE: Fluoxetine, paroxetine, sertraline, topiramate, and venlafaxine have previously shown efficacy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in randomized clinical trials. Two prior studies using Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical records da... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 11, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
