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Antidepressants are the cornerstone of treatment of depressive disorders in health care. Their efficacy in treating depression is undisputable, although it leaves room for improvement. However, recent reports also suggest that antidepressants might, in some rare cases, actually worsen suicidal tendencies instead of alleviating them. As a consequence, research has intensified to clarify this issue, [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Xenazine (tetrabenazine) for the treatment of chorea in people with Huntington’s disease. Chorea is the jerky, involuntary movement that occurs in people with this disease.
Xenazine is a new drug and is the first treatment of any kind approved in the United States for any symptom of Huntington’s [...]

By Gabriella Souza.
Source: News-Press.
Patrick Mullins held his best friend’s body in his arms, watching his face turn blue.
That memory is fresh on Mullins’ mind. The 24-year-old remembers that night three years ago when he drove to his best friend’s apartment high on prescription drugs, realizing his friend had overdosed on methadone and was probably dead.
“I [...]

By Sharon Jayson.
From AbcNews.
A comprehensive study of suicidal thinking among college students found more than half of the 26,000 surveyed had suicidal thoughts at some point during their lifetime. The web-based survey conducted in spring 2006 used separate samples of undergraduate and graduate students from 70 colleges and universities across the country.
Of the 15,010 undergraduates, [...]

Your depression is a self-defense of your organism and your psyche against the mistakes you make, following the absurd suggestions of the wild side of your conscience or the absurd tendencies of the under-developed human side of your conscience. In any case you have two enemies, pushing you towards craziness, since even the human side [...]

Asian-American individuals, whose families experience a high degree of interpersonal conflict, have been found to be thrice as likely to attempt suicide than Asian-Americans overall in a new study.
Experts at the University of California, Davis say that the risk is tripled even among those who have never had a diagnosis of depression.
“Because of the great [...]

Are you tired of everything? Sad? Depressed? Sick? Ready to fall from the highest place and abandon everyone once and for all?
No…
Don’t be so naïve!
If life was easy to be lived, everyone would be happy here.
You have to bear everything and be strong. There is no other solution, because if you don’t face all the [...]

By Jennifer Gibson, PharmD.
For BrainBlogger.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has evaluated the risk of suicide associated with antiepileptic drugs. The FDA examined 11 antiepileptic drugs, among nearly 28,000 patients, and found that patients taking an antiepileptic drug have an increased risk for suicidal behavior or ideation, compared to 16,000 patients receiving a [...]

Suicidal behavior is a potential risk of deep brain stimulation in patients with Parkinson’s disease, suggest the results of a study published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry.
Dr. Gilles Fenelon, of CHU Henri Mondor, Creteil, France, and colleagues point out that despite a high incidence of depression, Parkinson’s disease patients have an overall [...]

Cancer patients are at increased risk for suicide, according to three new studies.
In the first study, researchers at the University of Washington analyzed U.S. data from 1973 to 2002 and found that the suicide rate among cancer patients was 31.4 per 100,000 person-years, compared to 16.7 per 100,000 person-years in the general population.
Higher suicide rates [...]