Millions of people every year -- especially women -- are promised an easier, better life with antidepressants. Some of them lose their lives instead. Every year, 40,000 people die from antidepressants. With this critical look at the dark side of happy pills, readers will learn how NOT to be among them. Users and their families desperately want know if what they are taking is safe and what the alternatives are. This book answers some key questions: How do antidepressants work? Are they safe? Are the claims about them just hype? What are the side effects? And what are the alternatives? All the information in Antidepressants is backed with a sound scientific foundation and presented in straightforward, easy-to-understand language.