How I Joined the Secret SSRI Circles of 1985

Andrew Penn

I had heard about this stuff from a friend of a friend. “Ricky,” my buddy told me, “some big deal psychiatry researcher out at a university in Illinois has been studying this new drug, fluoxetine.”

I can’t even pronounce it, but I don’t really care. I’m just so sick of the meds that Dr. Woodchester keeps trying out on me for my moods, or what he keeps calling my “intrapsychic conflicts,” whatever those are… continue reading.