This is an amazing article on Sam Gilliam, a man I had not heard of before. I personally know how medications can change our personalities. I broke my neck early on in the year 2000. I was put on Oxycontin, Sarafem (a Prozac derivitive), and Ambien for good measure. I became a person who never cried, who had QVC on a loop, and bought shiny gold and porcelain dolls, things I had never been interested in before. I raged and threw myself on the floor and yelled "F#*& You!!! to my loving and ever patient husband.Sensing the dangerousness of myself, I put myself to bed. Eventually, my doctor recognized my dependence and forced me to "cold turkey" all three drugs at once. I lay in the bathtub begging God to take my life (but not during Christmas...I didn't want my children to associate Christmas with my death). At the end of January I came back to myself. I boxed up the dolls and picked up my paintbrush. Thanks for this article, Kathryn. Fascinating.
This is an amazing article on Sam Gilliam, a man I had not heard of before. I personally know how medications can change our personalities. I broke my neck early on in the year 2000. I was put on Oxycontin, Sarafem (a Prozac derivitive), and Ambien for good measure. I became a person who never cried, who had QVC on a loop, and bought shiny gold and porcelain dolls, things I had never been interested in before. I raged and threw myself on the floor and yelled "F#*& You!!! to my loving and ever patient husband.Sensing the dangerousness of myself, I put myself to bed. Eventually, my doctor recognized my dependence and forced me to "cold turkey" all three drugs at once. I lay in the bathtub begging God to take my life (but not during Christmas...I didn't want my children to associate Christmas with my death). At the end of January I came back to myself. I boxed up the dolls and picked up my paintbrush. Thanks for this article, Kathryn. Fascinating.