This World Mental Health Day (October 10), nearly 8 million adults in England (17 percent of the adult population) will be on prescribed antidepressants. Sadly, none of them will receive any ...

Sedona-based Alternative to Meds Center raises awareness of antidepressant withdrawal challenges and the importance of ...

I stress, first, that it is unwise to make decisions about coming off, reducing, or staying on medication on the basis of one blog post, and that withdrawing from antidepressants typically requires ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr announced a sweeping new initiative Monday to reduce the overprescription of antidepressant selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors SSRIs and ...

Millions of Americans seek out mental health care and medication as part of their treatment. And that can include taking multiple psychiatric drugs simultaneously. But what happens if a patient stops ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced a national initiative to address what he calls the overuse of psychiatric medications, especially among children. The plan ...

The global consumption of psychiatric medication is increasing by 4% annually, with the greatest increase observed in antidepressant use. For people who wish to reduce and/or stop taking medication, ...

Around 1980, mainstream psychiatry adopted a medical model. A new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, U.S. psychiatry’s bible of diagnoses, published that year, ...

Readers respond to a psychiatrist’s essay arguing for more research on the effects of S.S.R.I.s like Prozac and other drugs. To the Editor: Re “Harm From Antidepressants Is Real. Let’s Not Cede the ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Speaker 1: I started taking this little happy pill about, I think a little over ...