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Probably, though, those of us who have personal experience with depression have arrived at more subtle conclusions—neither the cheerleading of the drug companies nor the jeremiads of their critics, but something approaching the ambivalence of Andrew Solomon’s magisterial 2000 book The Noonday Demon, which explored how pharmaceuticals can help, but not always, and not as often as they’re prescribed.
Abilify, though, might give pause even to moderates. There’s not even an accepted theory here, as there is with SSRI’s (which prevent the reuptake of serotonin, thus enabling higher serotonin levels in the brain), to explain why the drug works. And this is extremely powerful medicine, being prescribed at an astonishingly high rate.