Coming of age on antidepressants
Apr. 18, 2008 by Lisa Currie
From the New York Times…
“I’ve grown up on medication,” my patient Julie told me recently. “I don’t have a sense of who I really am without it.”
At 31, she had been on one antidepressant or another nearly continuously since she was 14. There was little question that she had very serious depression and had survived several suicide attempts. In fact, she credited the medication with saving her life.
But now she was raising an equally fundamental question: how the drugs might have affected her psychological development and core identity. read full article…
Discussion Questions:
How do you see the use of legitimately prescribed drugs influencing one’s identity defvelopment?
Can one truly have a sense of who they are as an individual while under the influence of a drug?
How does this differ from illegal drugs or alcohol?