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

If you take a medication for a psychiatric condition, you may have experienced troubled sleep — insomnia, daytime sleepiness, or…

By Sean Hagey The Mighty Your doctor just wrote you a prescription for your depression. You were probably given some…

Every morning, I swallow a little white pill in the hope that it will keep me from losing my breasts…

Antidepressants are known to cause a slew of side effects, take weeks to take effect, and may not work at…

Three years ago, I found myself in a mental hospital in London. I looked down and saw welts on my…

The following is an excerpt from Katinka Blackford Newman’s book, The Pill That Steals Lives, which will released on September…

Although antidepressants are prescribed to millions of children and adolescents, the drugs do not offer any clear benefit to them…

Everyone knows not to mix alcohol and prescription medicines, right? But the math indicates a lot of people are doing…

You’ve finished treatment for breast cancer and your oncologist has said you are cancer-free “as far as we know.” But…