•     Don’t place unrealistic expectations on yourself-discuss with each other what aspects of intimacy and sex you can cope with at each phase of your recovery•     Have a very supportive partner whom can act as an advocate in consultations, particularly when you are not well enough to think clearly•     [...]

Sperhaps the main reason why SRIs are among the most widely prescribed drugs in the world is that they have relatively few side effects. A recent study involving more than six thousand patients showed that far fewer patients (13.9 percent) stopped SRIs because of side effects than stopped standard antidepressants. In my own clinical practice [...]

As we have seen, narcoleptics occasionally experience muscle paralysis associated with the onset or termination of sleep. The same problem can afflict nonnarcoleptic people as well. Patients lie unable to move any muscles, except those around the eyes. In some cases the victim suffers formication—the frightening sense that bugs are crawling over the body—or other [...]