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Postpartum Depression with Comorbid Anxiety: Optimizing Treatment

MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

Notably, a 12-week clinical trial from Misri and colleagues evaluated paroxetine monotherapy and paroxetine combined with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in women with postpartum depression and comorbid anxiety symptoms. for combination therapy). 2004 Sep;65(9):1236-41. for paroxetine alone and 78.9%

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

A 2004 study , “Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Risk of Depressive Disorders in Adulthood,” reported that exposure to such traumatic experiences is “associated with increased risk of depressive disorders up to decades after their occurrence”; and that childhood emotional abuse increased risk 2.7 fold for lifetime depressive disorders.