These are the top 20 psychiatric medications by number of U.S. prescriptions dispensed in 2005.   Medication Used for... U.S. Prescriptions 1. Xanax Anxiety 34,230,000 2. Zoloft Depression, anxiety 26,976,000 3. Lexapro Depression, anxiety 24,788,000 4. Prozac Depression, anxiety 21,403,000 5. Ativan Anxiety, panic disorder 19,002,000 6. Effexor XR Depression, ...  Read more... »

Schools are reporting more and more children entering who seem to be unable to meet the basic demands of sitting, paying attention, and controlling themselves. More and more children are placed in special ed programs. ...  Read more... »

It takes from two to six weeks for an antidepressant to begin to work. You may feel worse before you feel better because side effects can occur almost immediately, whereas therapeutic benefits appear later. The ...  Read more... »

We are all familiar with stress — it's a fact of life. With the rapid pace of modern living, it feels increasingly difficult to keep up. Sadly, the negative effects of stress are widespread and ...  Read more... »

If you're planning a trip during the festive season, you're not alone. Everyone else seems to be traveling, too. The holiday season accounts for nearly 10 percent of all miles traveled by Americans during the ...  Read more... »

Anxiety, worry, and stress are all afflictions of life in the modern world. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 10 percent of the American population, or 24 million people, suffer from anxiety ...  Read more... »

In an ideal world, holidays would bring all families closer together and heal all wounds. Parents, stepparents, ex-spouses, children and grandparents would embrace each other in perfect harmony, and family discord would disappear, at least ...  Read more... »

“Papa, Can You Hear Me?”Seeking Reassurance When Bereaved Please, give me a sign… To know that you’re all right… To know that you’re safe… To know ...  Read more... »

Recent research has shown consistently that depression rarely is due to a single event or condition. Rather, the development of depression is a complicated cognitive, behavioral, hormonal and biochemical process. A person's genetic factors may ...  Read more... »

Among the generation that has continually attempted to have it all, many baby boomers are now reluctantly adding a diagnosis of depression to their list of gains. As the leading cause of disability in the ...  Read more... »

Lauren was frightened. She considered herself to be a resilient, "no-nonsense" woman. Since the death of her dad, however, she had fallen apart, and feared that she wouldn't be able to put herself back together. As ...  Read more... »

You are the best expert on yourself. You have, by far, more knowledge about yourself than anyone else. No one else lives inside your body or inside your brain. No one else has ever experienced ...  Read more... »

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) was developed by Dr. Francine Shapiro in the mid-1980s. EMDR is one of the newer “power” therapies to be acknowledged and accepted both by the professional community and ...  Read more... »

I feel like I'm floating under an endless gray sky in an endless gray sea of tepid water. There is no horizon. There is nothing to break the monotony. I feel nothing. I see nothing. ...  Read more... »

Have you ever been concerned about relapse after missing a few doses of antibiotic pills? Do medications tie knots in your stomach and make eating a chore? Did you ever forget if you’ve already taken ...  Read more... »