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Still, most psychiatrists see increased use of the new breed of antidepressants--which includes Paxil, Zoloft and Sarafem--as a positive development. Clinical depression, as Andrea Yates's case reminds us, is a dangerous illness that may drive mothers to kill their babies, fathers to commit suicide and schoolchildren to start shooting their classmates. Most depression in the U.S., says Dr. Darrel Regier of the American Psychiatric Association, still goes untreated. If you or someone you love is suffering crying spells, feeling inappropriately guilty, thinking about suicide or having trouble eating or sleeping, don't ignore the symptoms. You should...
Which kind depends on the nature of the anxiety. If it's part of a chronic, underlying problem such as depression or something called "generalized anxiety disorder," the doctor would probably prescribe a so-called selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor such as Paxil. Such inhibitors take up to six weeks to begin working. But by putting your brain chemistry back into balance, they can get rid of the outward symptom--the anxiety...
...your distress is a specific (though out-of-control) reaction to an outward stimulus like the current crisis, then Paxil and the others are "wrong, wrong, wrong," says Friedman. Episodic anxiety is best treated with an entirely different class of drugs known as benzodiazepines, including Valium, Xanax, Ativan and Klonopin. These work within minutes, not weeks--but they're potentially addictive, so they shouldn't be used for more than two weeks...
GLAXOSMITHKLINE Court says drug co. must pay $6.4 mil because killer was on Paxil. O.K., back to Twinkies
That's why the National Institute of Mental Health set out to study the drug fluvoxamine, part of the class of selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors that includes Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. For eight weeks, researchers tracked 128 children, ages 6 to 17, who had been diagnosed with serious anxiety disorders. When they were offered behavioral therapy alone, only five children showed any improvement. When they were given Luvox, a brand of fluvoxamine, 76% showed swift and substantial improvement...