Patients come into doctors' offices asking for something they've seen on TV. Big pharma's advertising blitz, coupled with its aggressive marketing to physicians (who all too often are readily seduced to prescribe), results in the ever-increasing number of prescriptions offered to patients.

Working with mindfulness and meditation in this way is only one approach that is showing encouraging results in studies for preventing relapse in patients with depression. However, there may be other ways that are supportive to you.

When it comes to benefits, psychiatric medications hold their own when compared with general medical medications in the treatment of a great number of diseases that affect so many people.

By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - According to a new look at past antidepressant trials, up to a fifth of patients on Cymb...

In our society, we don't ask about mental illness, and we don't tell anyone about mental illness for fear of being thought of as weak or defective.

Before direct-to-consumer advertising, the health care system was devoted to preventing over-treatment and assuring patients they were probably okay. Now patients are assured they probably have a progressive disease.

Pamela Sakuda, 57, was anxious and depressed. After two years of intensive chemotherapy for late-stage colon cancer, and having outlived her prognos...

Here's some depressing recent medical news: Antidepressants don't work. Yet the pharmaceutical industry and FDA have deliberately deceived us into believing that they DO work.

My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell.

It is crazy to put working parents in impossible situations where they are bound to go crazy, and then act like there's something wrong with them for going crazy.

Take your own sweet time to stay unhappy. Then allow it to serve its purpose, play out its role, before getting in a hurry to ward it off.

Some thoughts on Jonah Lehrer's article from The New York Times Magazine, February 25, 2010. In his article on the possible evolutionary purpose of s...

The negative messages swirling around antidepressants distort a public health tragedy and impede access to treatments, including antidepressant medications, which can protect against suicide.

If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them. They're going through something that's very, very hard.

I suspect that the current popular "scientific" theory that we are merely a genetic roll of our parents' dice, or an amalgam of our brain chemistry, keeps us from truly exploring our human potential.

A growing body of research has found that when - and this is crucial - it is carried out responsibly, and kept specific, online therapy is one of the ...

Earlier this week British researchers made headlines with their report that antidepressants are for the most part ineffective. Read our coverage of t...

British researchers have released a report that claims that antidepressants, for the most part, are ineffective. The researchers found that compared ...

Lauri Ticas, 37, had been married only a year when the depression that had plagued her on and off most of her life returned. Her doctor put her back o...