Depression Anxiety – International Coalition for Drug Awareness

Execise: Greatly Helps Anxiety: Anxiety Disorder Association of America

Ann Blake-Tracy14 years ago03 mins

Healthcare providers to prescribe antidepressants for patients who suffer from depression or anxiety, these medications can sometimes come with harmful side effects. As a result, the drugs can sometimes end up doing more harm than good.

According to findings that were presented at the annual conference of the Anxiety Disorder Association of America, more mental health professionals should begin prescribing alternative health resources such as exercise to their patients who suffer from anxiety as multiple reports have shown that it helps treat the condition.

Antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications & heart risks

Ann Blake-Tracy14 years ago02 mins

Antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications may increase the
risk of heart disease, heart attacks and stroke in women, a new study
indicates.

According to researchers, from Uniformed Services University
in the US, women with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) who were taking
antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications had an increased risk of
cardiovascular events, compared to women not taking these
medications.

SSRI Nightmares

Jenny McKinney – clinical depression – Paxil

admin15 years ago05 mins

My name is Jenny McKinney. I am 26 and a stay-at-home mother of three boys, ages 5, 4, and 1 year. I was diagnosed with clinical depression in August of 1995. I was suicidal and depressed when I was prescribed the anti-depressant, Paxil. My mood swings were already out of control, but worsened after taking…

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Antidepressant Romance Fuels “Premedicated” Murder

Ann Blake-Tracy15 years ago019 mins

Note From Ann Blake-Tracy: I must say that in the 20 years I have been specializing in adverse reactions to antidepressants and lecturing and writing about these drugs this is possibly the best article I have ever read on the overall problem with antidepressants!! EXCELLENT WORK!!! The only thing I might have added is that…

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DEPRESSION MED: 15 Year Old Hangs Himself: Illinois

Ann Blake-Tracy15 years ago019 mins

Between 2003-04 the youth suicide rate jumped 14 percent – the steepest increase ever seen – while the number of antidepressant prescriptions for youths dramatically dropped during the same period: 20 percent for children 10 and under, 12 percent for 11-to-14-year-olds and 10 percent for 15-to-19-year-olds.

3/30/2001 – LSD to Prozac and back to LSD?!

admin23 years ago013 mins

At Harvard, a psychiatrist is studying whether the hallucinogenic cactus
peyote creates any long-term memory or attention problems in the American
Indians who take the drug as part of religious rituals.

12/29/2000 – Sarafem Nation – Renamed Prozac Targets Huge Market: Premenstrual W

Ann Blake-Tracy23 years ago121 mins

A visibly irritated woman yanks on a supermarket shopping cart that’s stuck
in its stack while a soothing female voice-over recites a litany of PMS
symptoms. She asks, “Think it’s PMS? Think again. . . . It could be PMDD.”