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Mental health advocate, Brooke Siem, stopped by Morning Break to share the various losses she’s felt in life.

I learned the hard way that doctors can be remarkably casual about things patients can’t afford to be when it comes to putting people on, and taking them off, antidepressants.

My contact with the world of psychiatric medication began in 2001, when I was 15 years old. I was taken to a child psychiatrist on the recommendation of a psychologist I’d been seeing in the wake of my father’s death. In a matter of minutes, I had a script for an antidepressant. By the time school let out a few months later, I was on two antidepressants and four additional drugs to counter the antidepressants’ physical side effects. I would stay on that same cocktail for the next 15 years.

My contact with the world of psychiatric medication began in 2001, when I was 15 years old. I was taken to a child psychiatrist on the recommendation of a psychologist I’d been seeing in the wake of my father’s death. In a matter of minutes, I had a script for an antidepressant. By the time school let out a few months later, I was on two antidepressants and four additional drugs to counter the antidepressants’ physical side effects. I would stay on that same cocktail for the next 15 years.

Readers discuss an article about a girl who was prescribed 10 medications in high school.

As countries like the US, UK and Singapore began mass COVID-19 vaccination program to fight against the Coronavirus pandemic, many people have raised concerns about the side effects. While many experts say that a reaction to a COVID-19 jab is common, a US nurse said that the second dose is more likely to cause side effects. David Flores, the emergency room nurse at the University of California San Diego health center, received the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. He received t...