Awhile back, a Beyond Blue reader asked me to address the problem of weight gain and medication. "How do you deal ...

It's been three years since I published "The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World," but the controversy over who is deemed ...

It's supposed to be the most exciting time of your life... And everyone is telling you how lucky you are to have ...

I always get a little irritated with articles like the one recently published in Time magazine: "Why Antidepressants Don't Live Up to the Hype" by John Cloud. Why? Because ...

Today I have the pleasure of interviewing one of my favorite psychiatrists, Dr. Ron Pies. Dr. Pies is Professor of Psychiatry and Lecturer on Bioethics and Humanities ...

Blogger Katherine Stone at Postpartum Progress, will host the first annual Mother's Day Rally for Moms' Mental Health this Mother's ...

Midweek Mental Greening Although I don’t live near it anymore, one of the things I love about my old city’s community mental health center is the center’s greenhouse. The center’s patients, ...

One of the questions an expecting mother has to ask herself if she suffers from major depression is, "Should I discontinue my antidepressant medications, for fear ...

This year, I celebrated my 2nd anniversary of being Paxil-free. (The "hurray!" I feel compelled to type here is a complete understatement of my joy.) Back in 2004, I started taking the drug ...

People often ask me what I did to get better. To tell you the truth, I'm not all that sure. I spent much of my deep depression wandering aimlessly, completely lost, not knowing which voices ...

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Symbyax for the acute treatment of treatment-resistant depression (TRD). It is the first drug approved for this indication. Symbyax is a combination pill that combines ...

Lexapro, an antidepressant already approved to treat major depression in adults, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat depression in children ages 12 to 17. This happened just ...