A few months ago I read an article that raised the question of how growing up on antidepressants might affect a child's psychological development. In Coming of Age on Antidepressants, Dr. Richard A. Friedman tells us that he started considering the issue after talking to a patient, a 31 year old woman who had been on antidepressants since she was 14. Although they had undoubtedly saved her life, she was beginning to wonder what kind of an impact they had had on her psychological development...
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