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The Antidepressant Survival Program: How to Beat the Side Effects and Enhance the Benefits of Your Medication - Hardcover

Hedaya, Robert J.; Kotz, Deborah

 
9780609604656: The Antidepressant Survival Program: How to Beat the Side Effects and Enhance the Benefits of Your Medication

Synopsis

A psychopharmacologist and clinical psychiatrist offers his program for reducing the side effects of antidepressantsincluding weight gain, sexual dysfunction, and energy losswithout taking more drugs.

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About the Author

Robert J. Hedaya, M.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Hospital's Department of Psychiatry. He also maintains a private practice and, through his clinical work, writing, teaching, and lecturing, has earned a reputation as one of the world's leading clinical psychopharmacologists. He practices in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

From the Inside Flap

ne you love may be one of an estimated 25 million Americans currently taking antidepressants for a wide range of psychiatric and physical disorders. But there is a dark side to these "wonder drugs" --- punishing side effects such as weight gain, lethargy, and sexual dysfunction that afflict up to 80 percent of the people who take them. Until now, side effect sufferers have had nowhere to turn for help. All too often their doctors dismiss side effects as "necessary evils" and urge patients to "learn to live with them." Even compassionate doctors rarely have the specialized expertise to manage side effects.

In The Antidepressant Survival Program, Dr. Robert J. Hedaya, a leading psychopharmacologist and clinical psychiatrist, shares his comprehensive mindbody program to reduce or eliminate the side effects of antidepressants. Now everyone can benefit from Dr. Hedaya's life-restoring prescription that has worked wonders for hundreds of his own patien

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