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Mood Disorders

  • Voice Choices

    March 11, 2009

    MOOD SWINGS

    Next to Normal now on Broadway

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2008
  • Blogs

    November 24, 2008
  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    A Modest Proposal: End Basketball's Intentional Foul Advantage

    Final seconds... inbound pass... Foul! Time for a commercial. (photo John Goering) Alas, it happens every year. The football season ends, and we are forced to turn our attention to basketball. This is always a sorry development, no doubt the cause of many fans' seasonal affective disorder. Don't ... More >>

  • Theater

    March 25, 2008

    The Break-Up and The Happy Sad: Love Moat

    Minds are on hearts in two Flea Theater plays

  • News

    July 20, 1999

    Higher and Higher

    Drug Cocktails— Pleasures, Risks, and Reasons

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2006

    Thank God Winter's Over

    Drug Cocktails— Pleasures, Risks, and Reasons

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2007

    The Best Winter Food in New York

    Drug Cocktails— Pleasures, Risks, and Reasons

  • Specials

    November 21, 2000

    Letters

    Drug Cocktails— Pleasures, Risks, and Reasons

  • News

    December 5, 2000

    Sarafem Nation

    Renamed Prozac Targets Huge Market: Premenstrual Women

  • Specials

    January 9, 2001

    Letters

    Renamed Prozac Targets Huge Market: Premenstrual Women

  • Books

    February 27, 2001

    Crazy Girl Power

    Renamed Prozac Targets Huge Market: Premenstrual Women

  • News

    March 13, 2001

    Spirit Lifters

    Renamed Prozac Targets Huge Market: Premenstrual Women

  • Books

    June 12, 2001

    Anatomy of Melancholy

    Renamed Prozac Targets Huge Market: Premenstrual Women

  • Specials

    September 11, 2001

    Letters

    Renamed Prozac Targets Huge Market: Premenstrual Women

  • News

    April 8, 2003

    'Nervous From the Service'

    Military Psychiatry Revamps Old Tune

  • News

    July 29, 2003

    Moody Blues

    Doctors Press the Case for Indicted Giuliani Aide Russell Harding

  • News

    August 5, 2003

    Refuge of Scoundrels

    After Criminal Charges, Claims of Mental Maladies

  • News

    October 14, 2003

    Go E-Mail the Doctor

    Online Pharmacies Offer Relief to the Uninsured, Vulnerable, and Desperate

  • News

    October 28, 2003

    Losing Joshua

    On January 30, He Nearly Killed Himself. On April 16, He Did. A 17-Year-Old's Suicide and the Questions Left Behind

  • News

    January 6, 2004

    The Suicide of Mr. A

    A Mentally Ill Inmate Slips Through the Cracks—Into the Path of a Subway Train

  • News

    September 14, 2004

    Walking the Edge

    NYU confronts its suicide problem with counseling and a questionable questionnaire

  • VLS

    May 10, 2005

    Through the Looking-Glass

    On the trail of the crippled detectives

  • People

    October 11, 2005

    Mothering the Mother

    Postpartum doulas take care of moms when they need it most

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    Things We Hate--Carob

    Carob is not healthier than chocolate. But it might just be healthier (and tastier) than blackboard chalk. We know for a fact that if you eat carob when you really want chocolate, you will become severely depressed. Just go ahead and eat some chocolate! And tell the health nuts we told you to.

  • Music

    December 12, 2006

    All Downhill From Here

    Carob is not healthier than chocolate. But it might just be healthier (and tastier) than blackboard chalk. We know for a fact that if you eat carob when you really want chocolate, you will become severely depressed. Just go ahead and eat some chocolate! And tell the health nuts we told you to.

  • News

    September 11, 2007

    Shock and Awe

    The stunning comeback of electroshock and other harrowing treatments for the mentally ill

  • Columns

    February 20, 2007

    Horoscope

    The stunning comeback of electroshock and other harrowing treatments for the mentally ill

  • Art

    April 4, 2006

    Swing Time

    College Can Complicate Bipolar Disorder

  • Books

    January 8, 2002

    Oops, I Did It Again

    College Can Complicate Bipolar Disorder

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    The Dark Side of Anti-Depressants

    Next To Normal, the Broadway musical about treating depression, got me thinking about the crapshoot involved in psychopharmacology and the awful side effects involved in taking a lot of the meds that are so readily available. A few years ago, I gave Zoloft a whirl and found that it not only left me ... More >>

  • Theater

    June 17, 2009

    Antidepressant Festival's Adventure Quest

    Next To Normal, the Broadway musical about treating depression, got me thinking about the crapshoot involved in psychopharmacology and the awful side effects involved in taking a lot of the meds that are so readily available. A few years ago, I gave Zoloft a whirl and found that it not only left me ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 15, 2009

    FISHER'S WISH

    A toast to sobriety

  • Voice Choices

    September 15, 2009

    WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE

    Artist shifts focus from environmental to personal

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2009

    What's Your Favorite Antidepressant or Anti-Anxiety Med?

    ​No one has to go through life with angst anymore, unless you're disturbed by co-pays, side effects, and an over-reliance on artifical highs. And I am, honey! A few years ago, I tried Zoloft and almost jumped out a window. It gave me aching fingers, headaches, dizzy spells, spasms, and no re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Tonight! Binary Marketing Show, Her Vanished Grace, and Boogie Boarder

    ​For those who set their alarms at the crack of dawn last Friday to buy Animal Collective/Guggenheim tickets but were still denied, quit moping and stop by Zebulon, where Binary Marketing Show (above), with their droning brass and radioactive vocals bathed in Brooklyn industrial waste, can ser ... More >>

  • Music

    March 30, 2010

    High Places Have Abandoned Us

    Ex-BK pop duo goes from creating a miniature California to living in the real thing

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Newsweek: Antidepressants Depressingly Wonky

    ​An excellent Newsweek cover story today brings the sad news that antidepressants depressingly don't work. Which is sad, because - among other reasons - a lot of people use them. What's even worse, however, is that they work less than placebos.

  • Theater

    May 25, 2010

    Oliver Parker! Finds the Fun Side of Child Abuse

    John Larroquette plays the "diddler" in a new comedy

  • Voice Choices

    July 13, 2010

    'Rocks Off Concert Cruises Presents Eric Krasno & Chapter 2'

    John Larroquette plays the "diddler" in a new comedy

  • Film

    August 18, 2010

    South Asian Americans Drawn Broad in Hiding Divya

    John Larroquette plays the "diddler" in a new comedy

  • Voice Choices

    December 8, 2010

    DAYS OF STRINGS

    Violins to break your smile

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2010

    Peter Vallone, Fluoride-Hating Councilman, Wants Your Teeth to Rot

    ​A city councilman from Queens apparently wants your your teeth to rot and fall out. The Daily News says Councilman Peter Vallone is planning to introduce a bill that would end New York's 45-year practice of adding fluoride to its tap water, citing safety concerns and comparing the miner ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    Fat Pants Friday: Betty Bakery's Plum Tart

    Rebecca Marx​ Betty Bakery is the retail manifestation of the considerable talents of Cheryl Kleinman and Ellen Baumwoll, two cake decorators who have run their businesses out of the production space behind Betty for years. Kleinman and Baumwoll (for whom, full disclosure, we worked as a summe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2011

    We're SO Over This Whole "Winter" Thing

    This funny "attack ad" on winter made by AOL conveys how we're probably all feeling. Winter is so last season to us already.

  • News

    June 8, 2011

    Two Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    Solange Lambert and Cosmo Salerno can't wait to take their love outside the walls of an adult home on Coney Island. But for now, they have to wait.

  • Theater

    December 21, 2011

    Close Up Space: Rep Theater

    MTC's new show goes where too many other new ones keep going

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    Anyone Feeling SAD?

    ​I'm talking capital-letters SAD, which translates as Seasonal Affective Disorder. It can happen in any season, but it's especially prevalent in the winter, when things are cold and bleak and yucky and slow.

  • Voice Choices

    December 14, 2011

    A VERY HAUNTED XMAS

    The holidays just got a little bit creepier

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Hot Chocolate Month Starts Tomorrow at City Bakery

    Stephbond / FlickrWhen it's cold outside, go for some warm cocoa​Chocoholics, rejoice: The happiest time of the year is almost here! Sure, February might be a crap time of year for some people, namely those with Seasonal Affective Disorder and all single people around the 14th, but for cocoa l ... More >>

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