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Frequently Asked Questions

• Are there any black box warnings for antidepressants?

  Most antidepressants are generally safe, but the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that all antidepressants carry black box warnings, the strictest warnings for prescriptions.

• How are antidepressants used to treat mild depression?

  Drug treatment of mild depression may also be considered in patients with a history of moderate or severe depression. Improvement in sleep is usually the first benefit of antidepressant therapy, with additional beneficial effects on psychomotor and physiological changes such as loss of appetite.

• What does the label on an antidepressant say?

  The official Full Prescribing Information (also called the ‘label’ or the ‘package insert’) for antidepressants describes multiple adverse effects in the sections on Warnings, Precautions and Adverse Effects.

• How to choose the best antidepressant for You?

  There is little to choose between the different classes of antidepressant drugs in terms of efficacy, so choice should be based on the individual patient’s requirements, including the presence of other existing disease and therapy, suicide risk, and previous response to antidepressant therapy.