Antidepressants don’t help bipolar depressionApril 27th, 2007
One of the many things that gives me faith in the future are the bloggers in the Maryland area who express passion for various social (and political – no matter which side of the aisle for which you reside) issues that face our greater community.
Certainly one colleague who comes to mind immediately is Bruce Godfrey over at Crablaw – one great example: “Getting the Truth Out About Autism.”
The reaction to former Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan’s announcement on June 22, 2006 was affirming…
Various family members and friends work with the physically and mentally handicapped and that higher calling is first among equals.
I take my hat off to them. The work can be difficult, but we should all take a moment from time to time to thank them as there, by the grace of God, could be any of us by merely a faint twist of fate.
I thought that many of the thoughtful and socially conscious bloggers and readers, who work with handicapped and mentally disadvantaged folks, would find the following interesting.
Antidepressants don't help bipolar depression
Thu Apr 26, 9:31 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The swings in mood from depression to mania that afflict people with bipolar disorder can be tempered with drugs such as lithium, but adding an antidepressant drug to ease the depression component is not helpful, new research suggests.
Depressive episodes are the main cause of disability for people with bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic depression, according to the report in The
New England Journal of Medicine. However, few studies have assessed the benefits of standard antidepressant drugs in treating bipolar depression. This may in part stem from the widely held but unproven belief that treatment with these drugs may trigger mania.
Read the rest here: Antidepressants don't help bipolar depression
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