Browsing: Mental Health

Hospital-induced delirium is when patients (most often elderly ones) become confused, anxious, aggressive and in some cases have verbal and physical outbursts while in the hospital. This sudden and severe change in mental status affects more than seven million hospitalized Americans each year.

Crissi Estep had been on Cymbalta (duloxetine) for a few years when the medication seemed to stop working. At first,…

What is bipolar disorder? Bipolar disorder, formerly called manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by drastic and intense shifts…

The anesthetic ketamine is increasingly being used off-label for depression. The drug seems to work rapidly, but its long-term side…

If you’ve recently started experiencing anxiety that’s disrupting your life, it could also be a side effect of a medicine you take.

Shortly after she was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, Sarah Lawrence was prescribed Otezla (apremilast). In less than two months after…

Physician’s assistant Ben Tanner lives alone. During the pandemic, he’s spent much of the time at home, working online. Because…

I was living in a tunnel vision of dark depression, and there was barely a glimmer of hope at the…

The first response to a child’s inability to focus on projects or homework is too often medicine. If there were a reliable non-pharmaceutical solution to teach your child how to focus, would you try it? 

Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress, but for some people, it can become overwhelming and debilitating. People with types…