Mood: What to Expect From FaroRx’s Upcoming Mental Health Care

Quick answer: FaroRx is launching Mood, a new treatment category offering sertraline and bupropion — two well-established, commonly prescribed medications for anxiety and low mood — through the same online visit and provider-monitoring model used across the rest of FaroRx. It’s currently in a coming-soon waitlist phase.

Weight, longevity, hair, and strength were the first four categories FaroRx built its telehealth model around. Mood is the fifth — and in some ways, the one that ties the whole platform together, since mental health is so closely connected to physical health outcomes.

What Mood will offer

• Sertraline — a daily SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) commonly prescribed for anxiety and depression
• Bupropion — a daily atypical antidepressant, sometimes chosen for its different side-effect profile compared to SSRIs, including a lower likelihood of sexual side effects and weight gain

Both are among the most widely prescribed and well-studied medications in mental health care — not new or experimental treatments, but established options being brought into FaroRx’s existing online-visit, ongoing-monitoring model.

How sertraline and bupropion differ

Sertraline works by increasing the availability of serotonin in the brain, and is commonly prescribed for generalized anxiety, depression, and related conditions. It’s typically started at a low dose and adjusted gradually.

Bupropion works differently, affecting dopamine and norepinephrine rather than serotonin. It’s often considered for patients who want to avoid the sexual side effects or weight changes sometimes associated with SSRIs, and is also used to support smoking cessation.

Neither is a one-size-fits-all choice — the right option depends on symptoms, health history, and how a patient responds, which is exactly what a provider visit is designed to sort out.

What “ongoing check-ins” will mean for Mood

Every FaroRx category includes unlimited provider messaging, but for a mental-health treatment, ongoing monitoring matters even more — dose adjustments, side-effect tracking, and check-ins on how a patient is actually feeling are a core part of responsible antidepressant management, not an optional add-on.

Why FaroRx is building this into a whole-body platform

Mental health doesn’t exist separately from physical health — sleep, weight, energy, and mood are closely connected, and patients managing one are often managing the others too. Bringing mood care into the same platform as weight, longevity, and strength treatment reflects that reality, rather than treating mental health as a separate, siloed service.

Frequently Asked Questions

When is FaroRx Mood launching? Mood is currently in a coming-soon phase. Patients can join the waitlist to be notified when it becomes available.

What medications will FaroRx Mood offer? Sertraline (an SSRI) and bupropion (an atypical antidepressant), both prescribed and monitored by licensed U.S. providers.

What’s the difference between sertraline and bupropion? Sertraline is an SSRI that increases serotonin availability and is commonly used for anxiety and depression. Bupropion works on dopamine and norepinephrine instead, and is often chosen to avoid SSRI-related sexual side effects or weight gain. The right choice depends on individual symptoms and health history.

Will Mood include ongoing support, or just a prescription? Like all FaroRx categories, Mood will include unlimited provider messaging and ongoing check-ins — which matters even more for a mental-health treatment than for most other categories.

How do I know if it’s time to consider mental health treatment? Persistent changes in mood, energy, sleep, or interest in daily life that last more than a couple of weeks are worth discussing with a provider. This isn’t something to self-diagnose — a licensed provider can help you understand what’s happening and what treatment options, if any, make sense.

Get notified when Mood launches

Join the Mood waitlist →

This content is for educational purposes and is not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice. If you are in crisis or having thoughts of self-harm, please contact 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or seek immediate medical attention. Prescribed only when clinically appropriate following an online medical visit with a licensed provider.