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A review by mjfmjfmjf
Coming of Age on Zoloft: How Antidepressants Cheered Us Up, Let Us Down, and Changed Who We Are by Katherine Sharpe
4.0
Entertainingly frightening. I really don't know how to take this book at all. It is basically a coming-of-age memoir around the concept of anti-depressants - with a bit of non-scientific inclusions from a set of people with relatively similar experiences. In the context of sending my oldest off too college it has been a bit upsetting.
I recall pieces of my first year of college pretty vividly - much more so than other periods of my life. It barely occurred to me to go to the health center when I had bronchitis - there is no way I would have thought to go for help for feeling sad. And yet I remember a specific moment in February of that year when that would have made sense. And if it had been 14 years later (and I had been female), I would have probably been giving drugs out of this book - and would have been on and off them years later.
It's hard to know what to do. This book captures that well including both what it feels like to be a young college student and a parent. And the idea that sometimes the drugs are absolutely necessary but almost impossible to know when that is. And that being sad sometimes is also okay. 4.5 of 5.
I recall pieces of my first year of college pretty vividly - much more so than other periods of my life. It barely occurred to me to go to the health center when I had bronchitis - there is no way I would have thought to go for help for feeling sad. And yet I remember a specific moment in February of that year when that would have made sense. And if it had been 14 years later (and I had been female), I would have probably been giving drugs out of this book - and would have been on and off them years later.
It's hard to know what to do. This book captures that well including both what it feels like to be a young college student and a parent. And the idea that sometimes the drugs are absolutely necessary but almost impossible to know when that is. And that being sad sometimes is also okay. 4.5 of 5.