We are not statistics.

I took finasteride for 8 months for hair loss. I quit three years ago. The brain fog, the numbness, the inability to feel emotions — none of it went away. I'm 28 and I feel like I'm living behind glass.

"My doctor told me it was anxiety. I've had anxiety before. This is not anxiety. This is something fundamentally broken."

I was prescribed sertraline for mild anxiety. When I stopped, I couldn't feel anything — physically or emotionally. It's been four years. My marriage nearly ended because my husband thought I'd stopped loving him.

"I used to cry at movies. I used to feel butterflies. Now I feel nothing. Absolutely nothing."

I was 16 when my dermatologist put me on Accutane. Six years later, I have chronic joint pain, permanent dry eyes, and sexual dysfunction. I traded clear skin for a body that feels like it belongs to someone twice my age.

"I was a child. They gave me this drug for pimples."

I used to cry at movies. I used to laugh until my stomach hurt. After 18 months on citalopram, all of that is gone. I'm not depressed. I'm chemically altered. There's a difference.

"I am not depressed. I am damaged. And there is no pill for that."

A hair clinic prescribed me finasteride at 38. Within a year of stopping, I had severe sexual dysfunction, insomnia, and depression. I lost my marriage because a hair clinic didn't tell me a cosmetic drug could destroy my life.

"I ran marathons. Now I can barely get out of bed."

I started Roaccutane when I was 17 because I was embarrassed about my skin. My acne is gone. But I live with chronic pain in every joint, and I haven't felt genuine happiness since I was a teenager.

"They said the side effects would go away. It's been nine years."