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Electrical Brain Stimulation Plus Drug Fights Depression: Study

By Deborah Posted in News Tagged

(HealthDay News) — Treating major depression safely and affordably is a challenge. Now, Brazilian researchers have found that two techniques often used individually produce better results when used together.

The researchers paired the antidepressant Zoloft (sertraline) and a type of noninvasive brain stimulation called transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to treat people with moderate to severe symptoms of major depression.

Transcranial direct current stimulation appears to be just as effective a treatment as Zoloft, but the two together are even more effective, said lead researcher Dr. Andre Russowsky Brunoni, from the Clinical Research Center at University Hospital of the University of Sao Paulo.

via Electrical Brain Stimulation Plus Drug Fights Depression: Study.

What to Do During the First Two Weeks You’re Waiting for Your Antidepressants to Kick In

By Deborah Posted in Articles, Living with Depression, Treatment Tagged , , Leave a reply
Image: My Room at Beau Rivage by Henri Matisse

My Room at Beau Rivage by Henri Matisse

The key words here are indulge yourself. Listen, you’re having enough trouble getting out of bed every day and going to work or school. You don’t need to push yourself. Think of yourself as an invalid recuperating from a very debilitating illness. You have to pamper yourself, body and spirit. This page is therefore all about “cocooning”, that is, wrapping yourself up in layers of comfort to protect yourself. Continue reading →

Antidepressant Medications at a Glance

By Deborah Posted in Medication for Mood Disorders Tagged , ,
Generic Name
Brand Names
Drug Family
Use
amitriptylineElavil, Typtanol, Saroten, Tryptizoltricyclicantidepressant
bupropionWellbutrin, Wellbutrin SR, Odranalaminoketoneantidepressant
citalopramCelexaSSRIantidepressant
clomipramineAnafranilheterocyclicantidepressant
desipramineNorpramin, Pertofrantricyclicantidepressant
doxepinAdapin, Sinequan, Zonalontricyclicantidepressant
fluvoxamineLuvoxSSRIantidepressant
fluoxetineProzacSSRIantidepressant
mirtazepineRemeron, Remeron SolTabtetracyclicantidepressant, antipanic
nefazodoneSerzonephenylpiperazineantidepressant
nortriptylineAventyltricyclicantidepressant
paroxetinePaxil, AropaxSSRIantidepressant
reboxetineVestra, Edronax, NoreboxsNRIantidepressant
sertralineZoloftSSRIantidepressant
trazodoneDesyrel, Trialodinetriazolopyridineantidepressant

Let’s All Trash Antidepressants (Not!)

By Deborah Posted in Medication for Mood Disorders, Mental Health Writing Tagged , ,

I recently read an excerpt of the book A Brief History of Anxiety by Patricia Pearson, in which she more or less trashes every aspect of psychiatric drugs. She notes that people posting to websites comment on feeling emotionally flat or numb when they’re taking them, and says that they “yearn for their sorrow back.”

I am so sick and tired of hearing this over and over. For one thing, in the same way that companies generally only hear from dissatisfied customers and not the satisfied ones, you’re going to hear more from people who are unhappy with their antidepressant response than from people who are happy with it. Happy people are not still looking for a solution. They’ve moved on. People who are dissatisfied with their medication are either venting out of frustration or hoping someone has an answer. Continue reading →

I Wanted To Live: New Depression Drugs Offer Hope For Toughest Cases : Shots – Health Blog : NPR

By Deborah Posted in Medication for Mood Disorders, News Tagged ,

A club drug called "Special K" is generating a lot of buzz among researchers who study depression.Thats because "Special K," which is actually an FDA-approved anesthetic named ketamine, can relieve even suicidal depression in a matter of hours. And it works on many patients who havent responded to current antidepressants like Prozac.Those traditional drugs, which act on the brains serotonin system, can take more than a month to kick in, and dont work for up to 40 percent of people with major depression."We can take care of a migraine in hours," says Carlos Zarate, a brain researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health who is studying ketamine. "So why do we have to wait weeks or months with depression?"

via I Wanted To Live: New Depression Drugs Offer Hope For Toughest Cases : Shots – Health Blog : NPR.