These BOOKS and ARTICLES helped me put together the pieces of the pharmacological puzzle that plagued me for so long:
Books
A MIND OF YOUR OWN: The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives by Kelly Brogan M.D., Kristin Loberg, Harper Wave, 2016
ANATOMY OF AN EPIDEMIC: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker, Broadway Paperbacks, 2010
THE EMPEROR’S NEW DRUGS: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch, Ph.D, Basic Books, 2010
YOUR DRUG MAY BE YOUR PROBLEM: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications by Peter R. Breggin, M.D., Da Capo Press, 1999
Articles
New Study Concludes that Antidepressants are “Largely Ineffective and Potentially Harmful,” Mad in America, 2018
Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit, The New York Times, April 7, 2018
One Dose of Antidepressants Alters the Brain Within Hours, Medical News Today, 2014
Antidepressants Can Cause Depression, Dr. Peter Breggin, Huffington Post, 2011
Five Reasons Not to Take SSRIs, Psychology Today, 2010
Happy Pills In America, New England Journal of Medicine, 2009
Are Antidepressants Just Placebos with Side Effects? Scientific American,2011
Many Antidepressant Studies Found Tainted by Pharma Company Influence, Scientific American, 2015
Antidepressants: Do They Work or Don’t They? Scientific American, 2010
Blog, 2011
Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect, National Institutes of Health, 2014
Stop the Madness: Coming Off Psych Meds, Kelly Brogan, M.D. blog, 2016
Antidepressants Aren’t Just for Depression Anymore, Los Angeles Times, 2016
Psychiatrists Shift Focus to Drugs, Not Talk Therapy, NPR, 2012
Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy, New York Times, 2011
Percentage of Americans on Antidepressants Nearly Doubles, Mad in America, 2015
How Antidepressants Work in the Brain: A Comprehensive Guide, Medical Daily, 2015
A Glut of Antidepressants, New York Times, 2013
Epidemic of Increased Suicides Fueled by Antidepressants, CCHR, 2016
U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High, New York Times, 2016
Antidepressant Use Climbs, As Primary Care Doctors Do the Prescribing, NPR, 2011