Curious about psychiatric medications, what they do, and how they work? Mental Health @ Home has lots of info, written from the perspective of a former mental health nurse and pharmacist who also takes psych meds for depression.

Here are some of the highlights.

Antidepressants

• Antidepressant side effects & delayed therapeutic effect: there is a rhyme and a reason

• Do antidepressants work?: a meta-analysis showed that antidepressants do work better than placebo

• Ketamine for treatment-resistant depression

• Psych Meds 101: Antidepressants

• Suicide risk with antidepressants – the real story behind the FDA black box warning

• The STAR*D study: results from a large study that involved multiple different treatment options

• Treatment-resistant depression

Antipsychotics

• Antipsychotics and the likelihood of weight gain: research findings comparing individual drugs

• Psych Meds 101: Antipsychotics

Anxiety Disorder Medications

• Anxiety disorders: Evidence-based treatment guidelines

• Psych Meds 101: Anxiety meds

Bipolar Disorder Medications

• Bipolar disorder: Evidence-based treatment guidelines

• Psych Meds 101: Mood stabilizers

More on meds

• Borderline personality disorder & medications

• Do we know how psych meds work?

• Half-Life: why it matters

• Pregnancy and psychiatric medication use

• Psych Meds 101: Sleep meds

• Why Do Psych Medications Stop Working Sometimes?