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When switching antidepressants, your healthcare provider may recommend switching directly, cross-tapering or tapering down your dosage before you start using your new medication.
This is a complete list of clinically approved prescription antidepressants throughout the world, as well as clinically approved prescription drugs used to augment antidepressants or mood stabilizers, by pharmacological and/or structural classification. Chemical/generic names are listed first, with brand names in parentheses.
This is a list of psychiatric medications used by psychiatrists and other physicians to treat mental illness or distress. The list is ordered alphabetically according to the condition or conditions, then by the generic name of each medication. The list is not exhaustive and not all drugs are used regularly in all countries.
Switching From Zoloft to Prozac: Final Thoughts. Thinking about swapping out your current medication for a new antidepressant is a big decision — but you don’t have to do it alone. With the ...
Another option is to add a medication to the patient's current treatment. This can include combination therapy: the combination of two different types of antidepressants, or augmentation therapy: the addition of a non-antidepressant medication that may increase the effectiveness of the antidepressant. [10]
If you currently use an SSRI, you’re not alone — SSRIs and other antidepressants are so common that between 2015 and 2018, over 13 percent of adults used an antidepressant. There’s no shame ...
One author concluded that there "seems little evidence to support the prescription of antidepressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients, unless alternative treatments have failed to provide benefit." [100] The other author agreed that "antidepressant 'glass' is far from full" but disagreed "that it is completely empty ...
In 2018, a systematic review and network meta-analysis comparing the efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs showed escitalopram to be one of the most effective. They showed that "In terms of efficacy, all antidepressants were more effective than placebo, with odds ratios (ORs) ranging between 2.13 (95% credible interval [CrI] 1. ...