These medications help you manage your anxiety. They help reduce things like sweating, shaking and rapid heartbeat - you know - the physical reactions of feeling anxious.
These medications help manage psychotic disorders. We're talking about problems of the mind that cause you to see or hear things that aren't there, or to believe things that aren't true. Antipsychotics reduce these symptoms. They can improve the quality of your life.
This treatment is for people who have severe depression. It's a series of IV infusions of the drug ketamine. Ketamine is an anesthetic that controls pain. When we use it for depression, we use a very low dose.
These medications help calm the activity in your brain. They treat severe mood swings caused by bipolar disorder and other mental disorders. Sometimes they're used to treat depression, impulse disorders and other issues.
These are medications that make you more alert and focused. They raise your blood pressure, pulse and breathing rate. Your energy level rises, too. Stimulants are commonly used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (which we call "ADHD"). Stimulants can also be used for other disorders.
This prescription drug (sold under brand names such as Diazepam Intensol®, Valium® and Valrelease®) treats anxiety. It controls agitation linked to alcohol withdrawal. We also use it to control muscle spasms and seizures. Diazepam belongs to a class of drugs we call "benzodiazepines."
This prescription drug (sold under brand names such as Ativan®, Lorazepam Intensol® and Loreev XR®) treats anxiety and issues linked to it (like insomnia and irritable bowel syndrome). It's used to treat epilepsy. It's used to help with the side effects of cancer treatment. And, we use it to help with the agitation caused by alcohol withdrawal. Lorazepam belongs to a class of drugs we call "benzodiazepines."
This prescription drug (sold under the brand name Klonopin®) controls some types of seizures. We also use it to control panic attacks. Clonazepam belongs to a class of drugs we call "benzodiazepines."
