Living With Energy Awareness » Depression http://blog.energyawareness.org How to Change your Energies to Change Your Life Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:50:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc 50% of people don’t respond to SSRI anti-depressants http://blog.energyawareness.org/energy-doctor/depression/50-of-people-dont-respond-to-ssri-anti-depressants/ http://blog.energyawareness.org/energy-doctor/depression/50-of-people-dont-respond-to-ssri-anti-depressants/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:38:17 +0000 Lynda Kane http://blog.energyawareness.org/?p=342 Whilst science is busy understanding why 50% of people don’t respond to the SSRI anti-depressants – fluoxetine (Prozac or Sarafem), citalopram (Celexa), paroxetine (Seroxat or Paxil) and sertraline (Zoloft), prozac 147x150 50% of people dont respond to SSRI anti depressants or experience severe side-effects (see the study led by Professor Rene Han, professor of pharmacology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Columbia University, published in the January 2010 issue of the Journal Neuron and also the work at Michigan by Dr John Traynor, professor of pharmacology at the U-M Medical School and director of the U-M Substance Abuse Research Center, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) – someone may have forgotten to tell your doctor.

And given that anti-depressants are one of the most over-prescribed drugs on the market – SSRI use increased from from 14.7 million in 2005 to 16.2 million in 2006 in the UK  and 118 million prescriptions were written for antidepressants in the USA in 2005, I would think very carefully before asking my doctor for them.  Doctors tend to prescribe them more when asked by their patients. The mental health charity MIND reported that 93% of GP’s have prescribed drugs due to ‘lack of alternatives.’ (In fact, there are many).

]]> http://blog.energyawareness.org/energy-doctor/depression/50-of-people-dont-respond-to-ssri-anti-depressants/feed/ 0 The Energetics of Post-Natal Depression http://blog.energyawareness.org/energy-doctor/depression/energetics-of-post-natal-depression/ http://blog.energyawareness.org/energy-doctor/depression/energetics-of-post-natal-depression/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 10:42:00 +0000 Stephen Kane http://blog.energyawareness.org/2009/05/28/energetics-of-post-natal-depression/ Many people experience depression in one form or another, from a few hours of feeling down to days or weeks of barely functioning at all. In a previous article – The End of Depression – I wrote about how all forms of depression are marked by a descending lesion in the energy body

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