First up is the 74-year-old woman who has been prescribed Mirtazapina for her depression. But what are the drug's side effects, she wonders? Well, quite a few, say our readers, and enough to make you. .
There's a certain machismo attached to psychiatry. Friendly counselling may be fine when you have a patient with mild depression, but cases of severe depression need drugs, and quickly, goes the line.
The antidepressants have suffered a bad press of late, and no wonder. Some trigger suicide, and others have been behind terrible incidents where patients have killed members of their family or taken a machine gun and mown down their fellow pupils at...