Prologue: Doxepin Diary

1. Giving Voice

2. Unwelcome Careers

3. Married to Medication

4. Searching for Authenticity

5. Significant Others

6. Teens Talk

7. High on Drugs

Epilogue: Lessons from the Inside

Appendix A: Getting Stories Straight

Appendix B: Commonly Prescribed Drugs for Anxiety and Depression

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Photo by Lee Pellegrini

David A. Karp is Professor of Sociology at Boston College, and the author of Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness and The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope with Mental Illness.