Zoloft belongs to a class of drugs known as Selective Serotonin Reuptake
Inhibitors or “SSRIs.” Other drugs in this class are Prozac (generically known as
fluoxetine), manufactured and marketed by Eli Lilly and Company, and Paxil (also
known as paroxetine) which was created by SmithKline Beecham Corporation, now
known as Glaxo SmithKline. Although each of these manufacturers admit they do
not know how their respective drugs work, each claim that they help to correct
a “chemical imbalance of the brain.” The assumption for each of these drugs is
that if a person is depressed (each and every depressed person), they have a
reduced number of a neurotransmitters in the brain called serotonin. As one
well-known psychiatrist put it: “[SSRIs] are not correcting a biochemical
imbalance, these drugs create severe imbalances in the brain.”
Are the side effects worth it?!
