Andrew Solomon

One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of the most potent antidepressants that I've ever had. And on the other hand, there are moments when I feel imprisoned by the reality that I can no longer make my decisions just for myself, that I have to consider the interests of others.

Writer

Dale Archer

To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.

American Psychologist

Alison Sweeney

We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.

American Actress

Adam Ant

Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

British Musician

Brandi Glanville

I had a couple years of depression. I started drinking too much. I had to up my antidepressants. I cried all day, every day, and I lost weight. But I had to take care of two kids. It wasn't about me anymore.

American Celebrity

Lewis Black

When we anticipate, we're the happiest. Unless you're on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can't anticipate. You think everything's going to be horrible, so it usually is.

American Comedian

Helen Fisher

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

American Scientist

Tess Holliday

I take antidepressants, which I was embarrassed about for a long time, but it keeps me going.

American Model

Irving Kirsch

Antidepressants can have troubling side effects and are addictive for some people.

American Educator

Jenny Ryan

I've always enjoyed singing as a hobby and an antidepressant.

English Celebrity

Antidepressant implies hope or improvement as it's related to mental health recovery.

Positive Connotation

Some cultures may stigmatize the use of antidepressants, seeing it as a weakness.

Medication Stigma

Antidepressants are often mentioned in discussions about mental health and therapy.

Treatment Context

 how a drug you might take for your blood pressure might affect your liver or an antidepressant might affect your heart. These systems are really hard to build, but we're just starting to be able to get there, and so, watch out. But that's not even all of it, because once a drug is approved, tissue engineering techniques can actually help us develop more personalized treatments.

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 that should be offered to people alongside the option of chemical antidepressants. For example, if you're lonely, you're more likely to become depressed. If, when you go to work, you don't have any control over your job, you've just got to do what you're told, you're more likely to become depressed. If you very rarely get out into the natural world,

This could be why you're...

 of one part left alone and two parts tragedy, started therapy in eighth grade, had a personality made up of tests and pills, lived like the uphills were mountains and the downhills were cliffs, four-fifths suicidal, a tidal wave of antidepressants, and an adolescent being called "Popper,"

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 For instance, common antidepressants, like SSRIs, stop the reabsorption of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that modulates our moods. This effectively pushes more of it into the neural network. Meanwhile, painkillers, like morphine, raise levels of serotonin and noradrenaline,

How do drugs affect the...

 results of the amount of medications that are showing up in these fish we thought we do with that and I said well it's easy we'll just make a fish out of pills all the green and yellow ones are the antidepressants Prozac and the tiny white ones that make up the dorsal fins

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 But is this information enough to make an arrest? Of course not, and we are asked to delve deeper with our investigation. So we found out, also, the presence of other two very interesting molecules. One is an antidepressant, and one is a very special molecule.

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 was the only approach to treating depression. The decades-long journey of discovery that followed revolutionized our understanding of depression— and raised questions we hadn’t considered before. One of those first two antidepressant drugs was ipronaizid,

How do antidepressants...

 sort of akin to putting on armor. We had accidentally discovered the first resilience-enhancing drug. And like I said, we only gave a tiny amount of the drug, and it lasted for weeks, and that's not like anything you see with antidepressants.

Could a drug prevent...

 and made them into peaceable felines. And even antidepressants were first tested in rabbits. Today, however, we are not just giving these drugs to other animals as test subjects, but they're giving them these drugs as patients,

Depressed dogs, cats...

 ever we managed to delineate the effects or the the impact of antidepressants on cognitive function which can revolutionize treatment and has worldwide applications we're also educating patients and their families in