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by sibeliuss 974 days ago
Ditto with family. One antidepressant led to another, and then to another, and on to deeper depression, suicide attempts and more. Finally landed through the prescription pill grapevine on Xanax, which by far, without any comparison whatsoever, was the most persistently destructive and frightening. Like dropping a nuclear bomb on the whole family, for years and years.

I don't mean to bring other classes of drugs in, only to note that it is _very common_ for someone to go in for one thing, find it doesn't work, and then to start tweaking / adding / combining in an attempt to find a solution, and that's where the real problems often live.