
By the millennium Americans were spending more than 12 billion dollars yearly on antidepressant medications. Currently, millions of people in the U.S. routinely use these pills. Are these miracle drugs, quickly curing depression? Or is their popularity a sign that we now inappropriately...

The author explores the relationship between pills and personhood by listening to a group of experts who rarely get the chance to speak on the matter of depression - those who are taking the medications. This book provides portraits of people attempting to make sense of a complex...