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A compelling and troubling exploration of a generation raised on antidepressants, and a book that combines expansive interviews with substantive research-based reporting, Coming of Age on Zoloft is a vitally important and immediately engrossing study of one of America’s most pressing and omnipresent issues: our growing reliance on prescription drugs. Katherine Sharpe, the former editor of Seed magazine’s ScienceBlogs.com, addresses the questions that millions of young men and women are struggling with. “Where does my personality end and my prescription begin?” “Do I have a disease?” “Can I get better on my own?” Combining stout scientific acumen with first-person experience gained through her own struggle with antidepressants, Sharpe leads the reader through a complex subject, a guide towards a clearer future for all.
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Katherine Sharpe is the former editor and community manager of Seed magazine's ScienceBlogs.com, and the former online editor of the DIY lifestyle rag ReadyMade. Her writing has appeared in n+1, GOOD, Seed, Washington Post Magazine, The Village Voice, The Brooklyn Rail, L Magazine, and Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists, among other publications. Her long-running print zine, 400 Words, was featured in Utne and Newsweek, and made the "McSweeney's Recommends" list on McSweeneys.net. She lives in Brooklyn.
