Laura, who has bipolar disorder, tried to get off psychiatric medication. She says she felt like the diagnosis explained everything about her for a really long time. After trying every solution that I'd read offered her, she decided to try to see what it was like to go off the medications. Laura: "I no longer believed that I could grow and evolve or that my life had options"
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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