Coming of age on Zoloft, how antidepressants cheered us up, let us down, and changed who we are, Katherine Sharpe
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Coming of age on Zoloft, how antidepressants cheered us up, let us down, and changed who we are, Katherine Sharpe
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-314)
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no index present
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non fiction
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Coming of age on Zoloft
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782988221
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Katherine Sharpe
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how antidepressants cheered us up, let us down, and changed who we are
Summary
Twenty-five years after Prozac entered the marketplace, 10 percent of Americans over the age of six use an SSRI antidepressant. Sharpe explores questions of identity that arise for people who start medication before they have an adult sense of self. She asks why some individuals find a diagnosis of depression reassuring, while others are threatened by it. She presents, in young people's own words, their intimate and complicated relationships with their medication. And she weighs the cultural implications of America's biomedical approach to moods
Table Of Contents
The diagnosis -- A short history of medication -- Starting out -- Decade of the brain -- I've never been to me -- Two red chairs -- Flight of the dodo bird : evaluating therapy -- Quitting -- Converts -- The next generation -- Coming of age
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