Obsessive-compulsive disorderPanic disorderGeneralized anxiety treatmentPost-traumatic stress disorder Anxiety is the “fever” of psychiatry. Fever is a completely nonspecific symptom, which happens in many illnesses, and frequently without any illness. ...
Diagnostic hierarchy and Post-traumatic stress disorder Trauma: Too broad a conceptTreatmentA DSM misnomer As discussed elsewhere, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety condition which arises after severe and often repeated trauma, usually...
Antidepressants, in the PL view, should not be used in bipolar illness. The only studies in which they have been compared to mood stabilizers find that mood stabilizers alone are as effective as antidepressants for the acute major depressive episode in bipolar...
In recent years, there has been some controversy about whether or not antidepressants are as effective as many had thought. One group – mostly on the outside of the psychiatric profession – argues that antidepressants are only slightly more effective...
The views presented here are described with citations to primary data in our review, downloadable below (1). Amphetamines, including all versions of methylphenidate, are antidepressants, and thus share all of the risks described elsewhere with those agents in bipolar...
