Medicine’s Suicide Problem, Part 1 of 2

Medicine’s Suicide Problem, Part 1 of 2, 30 Aug 2010, Forbes

By Robert Langreth and Rebecca Ruiz


(Part I in a series by Robert Langreth and Rebecca Ruiz)

Alexsandra Wixom started experiencing uncontrollable bouts of sadness when she was 15. “I was emotionally off. I cried all the time,” recalls the Seattle-area resident, who is now 25. Her mood swings eventually became so wild the former honors student had to quit going to high school. Over the next eight years she saw a psychiatrist every other week. Her doctors tried everything from Zoloft to mood stabilizers to heavy-duty antipsychotics, but none of them helped for long.

http://blogs.forbes.com/robertlangreth/2010/08/30/medicines-suicide-problem-part-1/