Psychotropic medications are used to treat a wide variety of mental health disorders. Learn about the different types, their uses, side effects, and more.

Many patients who show up in our emergency rooms or clinics are taking a large number of psychiatric medications. For instance, it is not unusual to see people on several different antidepressants ...

By the time Laura Delano was 25, she was taking five psychiatric drugs: an anti-depressant, an anti-psychotic, two mood stabilizers and an anti-anxiety medication.

New psychiatric drug options began flooding onto the market in the 1980s, with the introduction of second-generation antipsychotics and new classes of antidepressants known as selective serotonin ...

Brain Matters When can psychiatric drugs be stopped? Answers about ‘de-prescribing.’ Doctors are experts at prescribing medication but not so good at the critical art of knowing when a drug ...

But between 2018 and 2021, he and his team found that among adults receiving outpatient mental health care, those using only medication declined from 67.6% to 62.1%.

As a teenager, Katie Gruman was prescribed one mental health drug after another. None seemed to help her manage symptoms of anxiety and bipolar disorder, so she self-medicated with alcohol and ...

She stopped taking her psych meds. Now she helps others do the same. Laura Delano’s “Unshrunk” is more than a memoir. It’s a treatise against psychiatric medications.

A psychotropic drug is a drug that affects behavior, mood, thoughts, or perception. There are dozens, both prescription and commonly misused. We discuss uses, dangers, and more.