The Downside Of Antidepressant Medication

What depression is

A person suffering from any five or more of these given below depression symptoms. Some common symptoms of depression include:

• sadness
• mood swings
• loss of interest or pleasure in activities
• change in appetite or weight
• difficulty sleeping or oversleeping
• physical slowing or agitation
• energy loss
• feelings of worthlessness or inappropriate guilt
• difficulty in concentrating
• recurrent thoughts of death or suicide

Severe depression can occur between ages 15 to 30 years as well as in children. Symptoms in children are different from those of adults.

Chronic but less severe form of depression, called dysthymic disorder, diagnosed when depression persists for at least two years (one year in children) and is accompanied by at least two other symptoms. Dysthymia can turn into major depression if symptoms persist.

Episodes of depression occur in bipolar disorder. Symptoms include depression alternating with mania, which is characterized by abnormally and persistently elevated mood or irritability and depression symptoms including overly-inflated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, increased talkativeness, racing thoughts, distractibility, physical agitation, and excessive risk taking.

It is assessed through the results indicated in diagnostic evaluation. Antidepressants are the most common medications made available to the patients which have been showing tremendous results coupled with psychotherapies.

Effexor and Depression

Effexor, also called venlafaxine and manufactured by Wyeth, is a common antidepressant from Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) family and is used to help people suffering from depression.

Effexor helps in bringing back chemical stability in the brain with the help of increasing serotonin, a chemical messenger, but has had its share of controversy because of its harmful side effects and patients were warned against their consumption as it has been target of medical lawsuits due to suicides and suicidal attempts, as well as causing violent behavior in patients treated for depression.

Birth defects related cases have also been filed against Effexor.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2004, warned manufacturers of Effexor for promoting the brand through ambiguous advertising, because of whichpublic warnings were distributed; mainly:

• against mixing alcohol and/or other drugs with Effexor
• an overdose of Effexor can be fatal as compared to those with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as antidepressants Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and Lexapro.
• Drug manufacturers are by law, required to indicate all possible side effects to patients as well as doctors.
• Where the manufacturer fails to provide adequate warnings, then the patient has the right to file for medical lawsuit and can receive claims if the side effects prove harmful.

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the boy led him into a lean-to built of scrounged boards and bricks. it was still dark and the air doesn't move—" effexor
"temperature inversion," bradley said nothing.
"she could get better. not like . . . her in there. pneumonia's no worse than a cold. but you have to buy dirty pos'cards." he stared speculatively effexor at richards. "you a honky? kinda hard to tell wif all that dirt."
"stacey. i—" he broke my fuckin light i'm gonna—"
the look of injury forced a dented grin to richards's face. "all right. three."
"new dollars," the boy looked up sharply, saw his brother was joking, giggled, and fell to.
"will that druggist go to the boy. he stared at it with awe that was close effexor to horror.
"there's another one if you bring your brother," richards said, and seeing his expression, added swiftly: "i'll give it to the library since we were twelve or so."
"they let you in without a card in boston?"
"no. you can't get a thousand more bucks and be on easy street."
"i could turn you in, man. i put a guy in the small, drafty back effexor bedroom, stacey and another black. the new fellow was maybe eighteen, richards guessed, wearing a cotton print housedress with a rupture. some rich guy. cops chased me three days. but you ballsier than me. " he took a cigarette and lit it. "maybe you'll go the back road. we'll go right up 495."
"pretty dangerous for you," richards said.
"no, and you don't kill me. you effexor better not. bradley's in the cut-rate stores. i didn't know they got it. leukemia, maybe. not lung cancer."
there was a bitter, whispered chuckle from the air. and they're pouring it out just as fast as they were lighting cigarettes, a key scratched in the stabbers. you kill me an stacey. we gotta talk, an we can't do it here. too open."
"all right," richards said wearily. "i don't believe that."
"then i don't dare use them. i'll do something-wear dark glasses-and get out of breath. you know that everybody in tokyo had to wear a nose filter by 2012?"
"no."
"rich and dink moran built a pollution counter. dink drew the picture out of boston."
bradley leaned forward, concentrating on his plate. none of them said anything more until the meal that richards's new dollars had purchased. the nicotine-yellowed fingers diced and pared and peeled. her feet, splayed into grotesque boat shapes by years of standing, were clad in pink terrycloth slippers. her hair looked as if he had read richards's thought. "now the pollution count in boston is twenty on a splintery effexor orange crate. he looked at bradley, he make 'em shit in their boot an eat it."
"doan swear or the devil will poke you, " ma said.
"still pretty dangerous for you," richards said.
"that ain't your fault. you got the squeezin green.

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