Australian Mom Ripped Apart By Zoloft
An Australian woman named Rebekah Beddoe became pregnant, delivered a child, began suffering from post partum depression, went to a doctor who put her on Lustral (Zoloft) and she started experiencing anxiety and panic attacks. It gets more fun from there:
“There followed a meeting with my psychiatrist. He assured me that depression and anxiety very often went hand in hand. My dosage of Lustral was increased and, by now, Valium was being thrown into the mix. What I know now (and didn’t realise then) was that many of the side-effects of anti-depressants are the same as the symptoms of depression.
“I have strange recollections of the period that followed. I blocked out a lot of what happened, and only really found out the full extent of what went on later when I had the chance to refer to my medical records. I was referred to Ashgrove Private Hospital, which deals with those suffering from extreme cases of post-natal depression. My condition worsened, and I was placed on stronger drugs, which included the tranquilising drug Xanax. I considered self-harm, and became a suicide risk. I was transferred to Fernview, a major psychiatric hospital close to my home in Melbourne, and before long I became incapable of making rational decisions. I was even given electro-shock therapy. I ended up on a complicated cocktail of drugs including Prozac, Xanax, Zyprexa (which is used to treat schizophrenia), Dutonin (another anti-depressant) and sleeping pills. I was later put on Lithium, and several tranquilisers.”
She eventually had to take matters into her own hands and withdrew herself from her meds and is fine today–a cautionary tale for proponents of anti-depressants for post partum depression.
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