Glenmullen says he himself prescribes SSRIs when appropriate but is dismayed to see patients who have been prescribed antidepressants for every triviality, from nail-biting to boyfriend breakups.
In the late 1990s, unhappy and overwhelmed by his patient load, he prescribed himself Adderall, a stimulant.
Consider the story of Norman Cousins, a journalist who prescribed himself Groucho Marx films in order to induce the anaesthetic effect of belly-laughter.
Most important, Dr. Blanke said that even experts like himself who had prescribed Gleevec longest still needed to learn many things about it, like how much of the drug to give and for how long.
Cope often prescribed himself medications, including large amounts of morphine, belladonna, and formalin, a substance based on formaldehyde used to preserve specimens.
Two years earlier, in a far more challenging task, Greene had taken himself off the medication prescribed for his epilepsy – which had first been diagnosed when he was 17.
An icon of St. Nikolas, the sailor's patron, hangs in his wheelhouse, and when the weather blows rough over his bow, he will kiss the icon with his fingers and cross himself in the manner prescribed by the Greek Orthodox Church.
By following the method he has prescribed for himself and exercising his capacity for judgment, he is confident of eventually acquiring all the true knowledge of which he is capable, and "in this way all the true goods within my reach" (AT VI 28/CSM I 125).
After Addison's death, his family found out he had tried to kill himself twice before and been prescribed psychiatric medication.
Within the first semester, after a breakup with a boyfriend, Alig tried to kill himself by overdosing on antidepressants prescribed by his doctor back in Indiana.
