Would emily dickinson be on zoloft and or anti depressants if she were alive today?

Answer 1

Actually I disagree with everyone else.

Yes, she would be. In fact, I would bet she would have been on anti-psychotics if she were alive. Emily was extremely strange and lived a reclusive life. She may have had a touch of schizophrenia.

Drugs aren't bad if used for the right purposes...to help people lead better lives.

Answer 2

Emily Dickinson and the Illness of Agoraphobia. ... Emily had a severe form of panic disorder and rarely left her house. Antidepressants wouldn't have helped. Talk therapy and short-term treatment with anti anxiety meds would have helped.

Answer 3

No, she would refuse them. Taking a pill is an option not a must. No doctor can force you to take medication unless you're in a mental institution, that is the law, don't let any doctor tell you different.

I'm sorry to say this but pills have become an easy out for many psychiatrists, instead of treating the patient they give them a pill. If the patient doesn't feel better it's not the doctor's fault, blame it on the pill. This is thanks in great part to drug companies advertising on TV. Patients come in asking for a particular drug because the TV commercial told them they need it. If this doctor doesn't prescribe it they will go to another one who will. So doctors prescribe pills to keep patients.

Answer 4

This question makes me laugh a whole lot. I do admire Emily Dickinson as a poet, but her taking anti-depressant pills? come on!!! the lady has lived ina lonely house and never gotten married. Poor women... if she was on medications she wished she commited suicide.

Answer 5

Depression can be caused by many factors. The biological one being a lack of chemicals messengers in the brain called neurotransmitters. Depression is typically not treated with medication alone usually it is done in combination with professional counseling.

Answer 6

No,
She'd be living it up perfectly happily in San Francisco.