Growing up on antidepressants

 This week The New York Times  featured an interesting article on the growing number of  people who have been taking antidepressants since childhood.

“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.”

Link to Article 

Who Are We? Coming of Age on Antidepressants
By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D.
Published: April 15, 2008