I think maybe some doctors are too free and easy about handing out scripts for these drugs. People on them need to be monitored. When it first came out, it was suggested for me, but I balked because it was expensive, and I had to pay for my own. Later I was put on three other SSRI's. My system cannot tolerate them for some reason; it makes me agitated and feel like climbing the walls.
It sure seemed like a miracle drug for some people though. I don't know if it is true about Prozac, but during a med crisis, I did some research on the net. Some people have a horrid time tapering off Paxil; I would assume it is the same for some of the others. That's one thing I'll bet some forget to mention to patients when they are put on them.
How I would love to be able to live free of all of it! My granddaughter and I had a good visit today, and we talked about lots of things, partly about young people and legal and street drugs, she has friends who do them to one extent or another, hope some are clean, pretty sure her boyfriend is, so many of them are messing with them now; she has tried some, but does not want to do crack or meth; I hope to high heaven she doesn't do any of them now. I told her what a blessing it truly is not to be dependent on drugs. After my experiences with legal ones which I never abused, I would never dream of trying street drugs. Shiver.
And no experimentation for me. I know the younger generation does experiement, but I saw too many who got caught in the trap of addiction. They would never do needles, meth, cocaine, heroin, and yet in the throes of addiction, did do those things.
I think some of the problem is that they don't realize that the initial rush of the drug can be pleasureable. And some go on to repeat that initial rush, and pretty soon, an addict is born.