And Now a Word About Prozac

This wouldn't have made sense to include in the previous post on Linda Hamilton, but.... Eli Lilly makes Prozac, the first of the blockbuster SSRI anti-depressants. It's now available in generic form as well.

In the mid-1990s my doc had me on 80 mgs of Prozac a day. A more typical dose for a bipolar with suicidal depression would've been about 40 mgs a day. Prozac damn near killed me. On it and the other SSRIs, I was wildly suicidal, unable to perform my basic job duties and so damn scrambled mentally that I couldn't do simple math. I don't take SSRIs anymore. I am doing a whole lot better.

I wonder if Eli Lilly would like to refund the thousands of dollars I spent on Prozac.

So thanks to Linda Hamilton and Eli Lilly for giving me a chance to shoot off my mouth about an ugly corner of my experience with BP and psych meds.