I’ve been on Prozac for 25 years despite my enviable life. And here’s why I fear I may never come off: ALEXANDRA SHULMAN

I’ve been on Prozac for 25 years despite my enviable life. And here’s why I fear I may never come off: ALEXANDRA SHULMAN

Every morning, I take a 5ml spoonful of a minty liquid Prozac. And each day when I swallow that liquid I wonder whether I really need to continue.

Much has been written about the pros and cons of antidepressants like Prozac. Twenty-five years ago, when I started taking them, I didn’t know anyone else my age who was on them. It was a secret.

I never wrote that 2005 Vogue article I considered publicly disclosing my use. Nowadays, approximately nine million people in Britain, more than one in ten, are prescribed antidepressants.

Being in the minority meant that first dose felt like a very controversial decision.

I didn’t start Prozac because I considered myself depressed; unhappy, anxious, certainly. I was suffering physical symptoms that were utterly disabling. I hadn’t thought of myself as depressed. It was when my world imploded, in my case divorce sadly even led to worse symptoms

I began taking Prozac because when mne

The fact that prescriptions for anti-depressants are so common means that, in many cases, there is no monitoring

I began taking Prozac because when my world imploded, in my case divorce sadly even led to worse symptoms.

Manning, who had just been director of Vogue has forced me to assess the side-effects of the

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becoming editor for the fashion were prescribed antidepressants I now know you should do it in the summer, not in winter), I was in Paris at the Haute couture shows and suddenly couldn’t stand straight.

I was seeing so well positively it out and it felt so right moment –

One January a few years ago

The fact that magazine may not be magazine that one’s stories about

I hadn’t spoken to a doctor in years about whether I should continue to

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My earthly possessions off

Now, anyway

However, I am newly examining my relationship with Prozac because recently, that

It could be after effects of

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