LOS ANGELES: When you take an SSRI or mood stabiliser, you encounter plenty of people who say they, too, think they could benefit from something like that but they never would because we don’t yet know what the end results could be. What if, in old age, they ended up growing a third arm because of their decades of Prozac?
Point being: As someone who’s taken various medications of this ilk over the years, I’ve wrestled with the notion of being part of the experimental generation. Because there’s no way around the fact that we are the people these meds are being tested on. Ultimately, what I’ve concluded is that if these medications help me feel better today, I’ll take what comes later.
But it was with great gratification that I read about a new study that showed the antidepressant Lexapro might actually provide protection against dementia.