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PROZAC
Questions and Answers for
Patients, Family and Physicians |
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The facts and fallacies
about Prozac, today's most misunderstood "miracle cure." |
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- What is Prozac?
- Who should take it?
- Can it truly transform personalities?
- How much do you really know about
Prozac, the alleged "miracle drug" that doctors worldwide
have used to alleviate crippling clinical depression in their
patients?
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- In an easy to use question and
answer format, Dr. Ronald R. Fieve, one of the nation's foremost
experts on Prozac and its uses, gives detailed and authoritative
answers to the questions most commonly asked about Prozac
- to help you make informed decisions
on this complex, often confusing prescription
- and offering for the first time
a unique and surprising interpretation of the effects of Prozac
on personality
- as well as the dangers of prescribing
Prozac to misdiagnosed patients.
by Ronald R. Fieve, M.D
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Paperback
ISBN:
0380777185
Reissue
edition
Pub
4/96
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Excerpt From "Prozac:
Questions and Answers"
Who takes Prozac
?
You'd be amazed.
Since its introduction, over 11 million patients worldwide and
6 million in the United States have taken Prozac.
- These people cover the gamut
from children to adolescents to the elderly,
- from lifelong depressives
who, with the help of Prozac, are beginning for the first time
to structure their lives in responsible ways,
- to many highly successful,
productive people who have had from one to numerous bouts of
depression in their lifetime.
- Name any randomly chosen group
of successful people in society, business, politics or the arts,
and it is likely that 20% to 30% of them are either taking Prozac
or have been given Prozac at some point over the last several
years.
- Actors, politicians, housewives,
businesspeople, and artists have flooded talk shows, newspapers,
magazines and books with stories of how Prozac has helped them.
- People of all classes, races
and religions have benefited from and talked about the miraculous
effects of Prozac in reversing their despair, chronic lack of
pleasure, poor functioning, and persistent low-level depression--
and in raising them
to a level of functioning so much better than their previous
state that patients have sometimes used the term, "new self."
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