Antidepressants.

Drug Poisoning: Poisoning by Antidepressants

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Tricyclic antidepressants.

Combining antidepressants

Treatment-resistant depression is a common problem encountered by psychiatrists. These patients are often difficult to treat effectively. Strategies for addressing patients with treatment-resistant depression include changing medications, adding another antidepressant (antidepressant polypharmacy), and augmenting treatment with a non-antidepressant.

Tricyclic antidepressants.

Correspondence BRiTISH 301 Tricyclic Antidepressants SIR,-I am worried by one sentence in the article on tricyclic antidepressants (13 April, p. 102): "Jaundice, which is very uncommon , is of the cholestatic type similar to that found in chlorpromazine." This is misleading. Jaundice is one of the more frequent side-effects reported from imipramine and imitrip-tyline, the most widely used membe...

Suicide, depression, and antidepressants.

Unipolar depression, one of the most important causes of disability worldwide, is characterised by depressed mood, hopelessness, helplessness, intense feelings of guilt, sadness, low self esteem, thoughts of self harm, and suicide. Up to 15% of patients with unipolar depression eventually commit suicide. Although clinical guidelines recommend treating moderate to severe depression with antidepr...