Jane was seriously worried. Terrified, in fact. “I don’t want to die!” (She handed me an article printed from the internet.) “But this ‘Sudden Cardiac Death’ from taking antidepressants sounds terrible. And look, it’s three times the rate among people who take the antidepressant that I’m taking, Lexapro, escitalopram, mine, right? than people who don’t […]
Tag: SSRIs and Antidepressants
ARE YOU A HYPOCHONDRIAC?
Actually, after many years, the term has been changed to a more politically correct one: Illness Anxiety Disorder. Naturally, some degree of anxiety is totally appropriate when you are confronted with anything that might bring you protracted physical discomfort or shorten your precious lifespan (“Could this be it? The top line item on my Death […]