Almost everyone who takes antidepressants gains at least 15 pounds. Add mood stabilizers to the mix of medications and weight can shoot up by 75 pounds or more. This is not a new side effect. Patients and their psychiatrists have been dealing with this unpleasant, unwanted and unneeded side effect for a decade or more. Yet a scan of articles... Read more
"You couldn't be sixty. I don't believe it." This astonished pronouncement came from a woman talking to another while waiting for a yoga class to begin. I was nearby and was astonished myself. The sixty year-old looked about 40; she was trim and muscular and I knew from previous classes that she could stretch herself into yoga... Read more
I was losing the argument. According to my neighbor, it was possible to take serotonin as a supplement and not only lose weight but also vanquish the symptoms of stress, PMS and menopause. "Just go to the website and you will see all the testimonials from people who have been helped by the serotonin supplement," she told me,... Read more
"My son is staying with us until he can find a job," a friend told me. " And he is gaining weight by the minute. When I asked him about it-I still am his mother, after all-he said that he is bored. So he spends his time eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches."
Boredom may be the most common cause of overeating. We... Read more
"I gained so much weight this past year from my antidepressant that I no longer have a social life," writes a reader. She goes on to say that she used to be thin and never worried about what she looked like. "But now I look at my bulging body and see how dreadful I look in jeans and feel like crying. Except for going to work and doing errands, I... Read more
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