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For my depressed, anxious, eating- and sleeping-disordered friends...of whom there seem to be a lot...

MEDICATIONS

About Prozac...

Forty million perscriptions are written for Prozac every year. That's a lot of Prozac...

For some people it works well...

But some of the things you might experience are an increase in nervousness and anxiety aas well as loss of appetite, loss of libido, and other things.

It takes a long time for it to work... three to six weeks...

And if you need to stop taking it, you have to wait at least five weeks before taking any other drug that works like it...

In other words, you have to get the Prozac out of your system first.

That means withdrawal before you can start something else.

During that time, your symptoms are likely to be far worse than they were even before you were treated. (See www.prozac.com/m0/m0.4.jsp - 39K)

It is highly unlikely that, if you get on Prozac, or any other similar product, that you will remain on it indefinitely. At some point you're going to have to get off it.

With that in mind, I feel the same way about it that I feel about cigarettes, liquor and street drugs.

If you don't want to go through the pain of stopping, don't start...

Having said that, I also understand that there are times when life seems overwhelming and your symptoms seem uncontrollable.

But you just don't understand them.

You can handle this.

And you can handle it without drugs.

I did.

You can...