SSRI
Articles tagged SSRI cover when this care approach may fit, what to expect, tradeoffs, safety questions, and how it can connect with therapy, medication, or lifestyle work.
Zoloft
Zoloft is the drug I prescribe more than anything else, and the one patients ask the most questions about before they're willing to swallow the first pill.
Jun 13, 2025
Trintellix (Vortioxetine)
Trintellix is the antidepressant pharma reps spent a decade trying to make happen.
Jun 9, 2025
PMDD (for the partners who live with it)
This one's for the husbands, because most of the guys who come in with a wife who has PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder, the severe, predictable mood…
May 11, 2025
Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)
Persistent depressive disorder, what used to be called dysthymia, is the diagnosis for guys who've been depressed for so long they don't remember what…
May 9, 2025
Mood Disorders Treatment
"Mood disorder" is a category, not a diagnosis.
May 7, 2025
Sleep apnea + depression in middle-aged men
If you’re a guy in your forties or fifties who feels depressed, exhausted, foggy, and irritable, and the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, the most common antidepressant class,…
Apr 28, 2025
Paxil (paroxetine)
Paxil is the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, the standard first-line antidepressant class) I almost never start a new patient on, and the…
Apr 5, 2025
Celexa (citalopram)
Celexa is the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, the standard first-line antidepressant class that boosts serotonin without much else going on)…
Apr 2, 2025
OCD
OCD is one of those diagnoses that got grabbed by pop culture and quietly butchered along the way.
Feb 14, 2025
Panic Disorder
Panic disorder is not generalized anxiety.
Feb 11, 2025
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
GAD (generalized anxiety disorder, the diagnosis given to chronic free-floating worry that isn't attached to one specific thing) is the kind of anxiety…
Feb 9, 2025
Lexapro (Escitalopram)
Lexapro is the SSRI I start with most of the time, and the reason is boring...
Jan 29, 2025