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Article: Medicines for the Mind.(assessment of selective serotonin-reuptake-inhibitor depressants (SSRIs))(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- June 19, 2000
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After a breakup with a girlfriend, Patrick, a 36-year-old Los Angeles man, told his primary-care physician he was feeling a little down. The physician wrote him a prescription for Wellbutrin, a selective serotonin-reuptake-inhibitor antidepressant, one of many drugs known as SSRIs. Almost immediately, Patrick began to suffer side effects. He became nauseated and dizzy and was "flying higher than a kite." He went to a psychiatrist, who tried a variety of other SSRIs, which only worsened his physical discomfort and his lack of emotion and sex drive. "I believe a little therapy and talking would have helped me," he says. "This opened up a whole can of worms and created more ...