International Coalition for Drug Awareness
Educating about the dangers of Antidepressant Medications
2003 This is Survivor Story number 9. Total number of stories in current database is 77 5/16/2003 Student’s Life Destroyed on Prozac Antidepressants “(After begging my doctor to put me on Prozac,) I just felt insane. I felt like screaming, tearing my clothes off and running around like a madman.” I wrote to…
2003 This is Survivor Story number 3. Total number of stories in current database is 77 2/16/2003 An Answer to Our Nightmare on Paxil Antidepressants “I feel like I am on a crusade to help prevent another family and child from going through this experience.” Finding this web sight was such a revelation to us….
2003 This is Survivor Story number 4. Total number of stories in current database is 77 3/12/2003 Sturggling to Withdraw from Paxil Antidepressants “Thanks for everything you’re doing to help people like me and for working so hard to get these drugs off the market.” I’ve taken SSRI’s for nine years and am…
2003 This is Survivor Story number 5. Total number of stories in current database is 77 4/5/2003 Serotonergic Poisoning on Paxil Antidepressants “My teeth no longer feel like my teeth and I have horrible electrical feelings in my mouth.” I was being treated for a bipolar depression with St. John’s Wort, and my…
2003 This is Survivor Story number 1. Total number of stories in current database is 77 1/16/2003 Addictive Problems with Viagra Other Medications “Viagra cost me a marriage of 45 years, my home, the respect of my family and the full use and enjoyment of a healthy normal life.” wanted to share my story and…
2003 This is Survivor Story number 1. Total number of stories in current database is 77 1/16/2003 Addictive Problems with Viagra Other Medications “Viagra cost me a marriage of 45 years, my home, the respect of my family and the full use and enjoyment of a healthy normal life.” wanted to share my…
WARNING: Withdrawal can often be more dangerous than continuing on a medication. Please click here before discontinuing any prescription abruptly. Stories most recently submitted,are listed first. ICFDA Survivor Stories 2001 2/18/2001 Hope through alternatives even after long-term use of Prozac “The doctors said that I needed the drugs to pull through. I finally said, ‘No…
WARNING: Withdrawal can often be more dangerous than continuing on a medication. Please click here before discontinuing any prescription abruptly. Stories most recently submitted,are listed first. ICFDA Survivor Stories 2001 2/18/2001 Hope through alternatives even after long-term use of Prozac “The doctors said that I needed the drugs to pull through. I finally…
“I thought maybe that I was nuts, because the doctor just looked at me like I was imagining things.”
“…I was sent to see a psychiatrist who said it was anxiety and depression, and for the following 4 years prescribed 22 different types of mood-altering drugs…”