Antidepressants (SSRI, SNRI and Atypical)
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OCD – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
People with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) experience unpleasant and intrusive thoughts, images, doubts or urges (called obsessions) and repetitive behaviours (called compulsions). Compulsions are usually carried out as a way of reducing the distress caused by obsessions. OCD takes many different forms and causes distress and interference to day-to-day life.
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CAMH Editorial: Volume 22, Issue 2, May 2017
“Pharmacotherapy and adolescent depression – an important treatment option” by Bernadka Durbicka & David Brent.
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CAMH – Volume 22, Issue 2, May 2017 – Editorial: Pharmacotherapy and adolescent depression – an important treatment option
Bernadka Dubricka, David Brent
Abstract
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Over the past decade, rates of depression and of suicide in adolescents have been increasing (Collishaw, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 56, 2015, 370; Bor et al., The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 48, 2014, 606). At the same time, there is some evidence that rates of diagnosis and, in the US at least, referral for depression in adolescents has been declining (Libby et al., Archives of General Psychiatry, 66, 2009, 633; John et al., Psychological Medicine, 46, 2016, 3315).