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...People who subscribe to this belief fail to understand several fundamental facts about psychiatric disorders and medications. Antidepressants??that is, serotonin and serotonin-norepenephrine reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs and SNRIs—relieve symptoms of clinical depression by balancing levels of certain chemicals in the brain. Psychiatrists believe that if a person who does not suffer from clinical depression—that is, who has healthy brain chemistry—were to take an antidepressant, he would experience any number of negative side effects while not getting any benefit from the medication...
Lightning struck twice. A few days later I watched Cruise and Matt Lauer, both steely and focused, debate antidepressants??or psychotropic drugs, if you listen to Cruise—on The Today Show. Cruise insisted that Lauer didn’t know the history of psychiatry, but that he did. Lauer said that antidepressants had helped some of his friends. Cruise accused Lauer of being “glib.” The viewing public chalked Cruise’s antics up to his infatuation with Scientology. I agreed, congratulating myself on my educated rationality...
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