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Awhile back a reader asked me if I’d cover the topic of intimacy complications with regard to antidepressants.   Ah. Yeah. Every time I write about this controversial topic, I usually get hammered by the left, right, and center–this is obviously delicate ground–so let me tread lightly. In a recent Johns Hopkins Health Alert called…

The following blog is a guest post by By Judith J. Wurtman, PhD, Co-author of The Serotonin Power Diet: Eat Carbs — Nature’s Own Appetite Suppressant — to Stop Emotional Overeating and Halt Antidepressant-Associated Weight Gain. Antidepressants have been associated with weight gain since they were first used about 50 years ago. Tricyclic antidepressants (TCA)…

Roughly a quarter of people age 65 or older suffer from depression. More than half of doctor’s visits by the elderly involve complaints of emotional distress. Twenty percent of suicides in this country are committed by seniors, with the highest success rate belonging to older, white men. According to a recent report in the “Journal…

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