If you’re wondering which pills and how many of them Americans have relied upon to make ourselves feel better since COVID-19 arrived, the answer, in short, is yes. “I should have gone back on ...

Beta-Blockers for Anxiety: What Are They? Beta-blockers are medications that slow down certain types of cell activity in your body. Doctors often prescribe them to treat heart and circulatory problems ...

The pandemic’s true toll on mental health won’t be known for a long time, but data from the past two years indicates a rise — some of it sharp — in prescription drugs for conditions like A.D.H.D. and ...

But when the researchers analyzed the data, they found that fluoxetine appeared not to provide meaningful benefits for reducing depressive symptoms in children. In fact, the study authors told The ...

In 1993, I published “Listening to Prozac,” a book that grew out of my clinical experience prescribing what was then a new class of medications, ones thought to moderate depression through their ...

Heart problems can cause a lot of physical challenges, but for many people, that’s only part of the story. A diagnosis of heart failure can also take a toll on your mental well-being. If you have ...

Antidepressants treat mental health conditions but can affect body weight. Although most can cause weight gain, a few antidepressants, including fluoxetine and duloxetine, may decrease appetite and ...

As a reproductive psychiatrist, I specialize in the mental health treatment of pregnant and postpartum women with mood and anxiety disorders. Reproductive psychiatrists also help women on psychiatric ...

My battle with postpartum anxiety challenged the limits I’d placed on how God can heal us. Pregnancy and postpartum hormones make the world go round—they can create lives and sustain them, but they ...