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Chasing the Holy Grail of Meds: Part 3 of 3

The grail wasn’t what I thought it would be.

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Or maybe this is it.

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The question I’ve been asking myself for years — and the answer that surprised me

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After 35 years of suffocating depression, I finally used the last of my air to speak up.