Combo Therapy Best for Teen Depression
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TUESDAY, Aug. 17 (HealthDayNews) -- When it comes to treating teenage depression, two treatments appear to be better than one.
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NEW YORK  - Antidepressant drug treatment is associated with a reduced risk of completed suicides and overall mortality among adults, although it also appears to increase the likelihood of nonfatal suicide attempts, according to a research team in Finland.
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WASHINGTON Over 70 people have shared their views -- sometimes emotional -- about the effectiveness of antidepressants on teens and children.
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NEW YORK  - Teens with a friend who commits  suicide are at risk of an intense reaction called traumatic  grief, which in turn renders them prone to subsequent mental  disturbances, new research shows.
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A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel has recommended putting a &quot;black box&quot; warning on antidepressants to indicate they might raise the risk of suicidal behavior in children and teens.
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NEW YORK  - Family therapy is more effective than traditional solo psychotherapy in helping teens with bulimia to abstain from binging and purging, a new study shows.
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Nicotine replacement therapy can help teens quit or at least cut back on smoking, research suggests.
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Doctors are prescribing more antidepressants for children and adolescents although there is little evidence about their safety or efficacy in youngsters, researchers said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - Among abused and neglected  children who are genetically prone to develop depression, the  risk of doing so may be reduced if they have someone to talk  to, share good news with and get advice from, new study  findings show.
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Many desperate parents dealing with depressed or out-of-control kids have found that medication has helped bring some normalcy to family life.
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For many of us, a phone call from a trusted friend can make the world feel a little more in our favor. Now research suggests that phone calls from a therapist can do the same thing for patients with depression.
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NEW YORK  - Regular exercise may work as well as medication in improving symptoms of major depression, researchers have found.
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THURSDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Racial discrimination can spur depression and behavior problems in adolescents, but it can also be counterbalanced by support from homes, friends and school, a new study finds.
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I am often     warned that my time here at Kuro5hin exacerbates my symptoms of mental illness.   But in one very important way Kuro5hin serves as a medical device that enables me   to enjoy a certain very important component of sanity that would otherwise be   largely unavailable to me.    It enables me, for a time, to live free of a devasting symptom that was notably   absent from my list of symptoms that I published in three years ago in     Living with Schizoaffective Disorder because I was at the time so completely   in its grip as to be unaware even of its existence.  While I had by then undergone   over a decade of psychotherapy, I had not yet gained the insight necessary to   recognize this symptom, let alone do anything about it.    As I will explain, it is also one of the most difficult symptoms for mental   health practitioners to treat.  While some claim that some newer medications can help,   that's not my own experience.  I have found that talk therapy helps, but only very slowly,  over a period of years.
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BETHESDA, Md.  - The use of some antidepressant  drugs appears linked to an increase in suicidal behavior in  some children and teen-agers, a U.S. advisory panel concluded  on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - Specially tailored family therapy can help teens with type 1 diabetes keep their blood sugar levels under control.
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Description: An advisory committee recommends the FDA issue stronger warnings about the use of antidepressants called SSRIs in children and teenagers.