There are a wide variety of different medications used in the treatment of mental health conditions such as antidepressants, psychotropics and mood stabilisers. This article aims to explore the role of lithium in treating bipolar disorder with key areas to be explored listed below
anti depressantsMood Stabilisers & Bipolar DisorderMonday, February 22nd, 2010Antidepressants Don’t Help Patients With Mild Disorders, Researchers FindThursday, January 7th, 2010By Simeon Bennett Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — Antidepressants such as those made by GlaxoSmithKline Plc may be no better than dummy pills for people with mild or moderate depression, according to a study that suggests 70 percent of patients wouldn’t benefit from the drugs. Meditation on prescription: charity urges new remedy for depressionTuesday, January 5th, 2010Meditation techniques should be widely available on prescription, say experts today, pointing to evidence that emptying the mind is more likely to help people out of the cycle of recurrent depression than pills. Meditation may for some evoke images of Buddhist chanting and the Beatles bedecked with flowers in their period of devotion to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, but today a mental health charity is launching a campaign to make “mindfulness” courses based on meditation available widely on the NHS. One in 10 ‘on anti-depressants’ in ScotlandWednesday, December 16th, 2009Every 10th adult in Scotland is taking anti-depressant medication daily, according to health service statistics. Recession sees antidepressant use soarWednesday, December 16th, 2009Official figures estimate 9.7 per cent of people aged 15 and over take medication for depression, with the total number of prescriptions rising to more than four million for the first time. ‘Doctors should stop pushing drugs at depressed people’Thursday, November 26th, 2009Despite a large increase in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) doctors are still pushing drugs at patients, according to Dr Jennifer Wild, a senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry. In this week’s Scrubbing Up, she argues that GPs need to understand that psychological therapies like CBT work and should choose to offer them. Prozac rise ‘down to serial use’Friday, October 23rd, 2009An increase in prescriptions for anti-depressants is due to doctors giving drugs to the same people for longer periods of time, a study has found. |
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