Four Corners: Aug 28
Monday's Four Corners reveals the physical and mental side effects of antidepressants can be wide-ranging and are often downplayed.
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Four Corners on Monday screens Panorama report, “The Antidepressant Story.”
Around one in seven Australians now take some sort of antidepressant.
Globally they have made the pharmaceutical industry billions of dollars.
When modern antidepressants like Prozac were launched in the late 1980s, they were quickly heralded as wonder drugs for treating anxiety and depression with few side effects.
While many people say they have benefited from taking them, this week’s Four Corners from the BBC’s Panorama reveals the physical and mental side effects of the drugs can be wide-ranging and are often downplayed.
From headaches and brain fog to more severe impacts like loss of sexual function and suicidal thoughts – The BBC spoke to more than 100 patients grappling with effects of some kind.
The documentary asks – are they really helping?
Monday 28th August at 8.30pm on ABC.
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Prozac was horrendous, had a relative who tried to commit suicide on it several times and suffered obsessions from it….and let’s not forget Carrie Fisher and her time on Prozac which was a source of some of her gags and they were brilliant…then her kitchen tiles shaped and labeled like giant Prozac…plus her urn shaped like a giant Prozac capsule…a real ode to Prozac….RIP Carrie you were the best.