Are You Still Taking Medication?

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"I confronted this problem of feeling like the medication had sort of allowed me to operate at a kind of higher level. And then you build a life on that higher level and then you kind of like feel like in order to continue being the person you are, you need to keep taking that medication," she says. "It just raises a lot of questions about like personality and sort of choices about who we are."

Ray Osheroff was a successful doctor in the DC area until his depression became debilitating. The way he was treated — and not treated — changed psychiatry. Rachel Aviv tells the surprising story of the rise of psychiatric medication.

Today’s show was produced by Miles Bryan and edited by Matthew Collette. It was engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Noel King.

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