Today, I went to the medical centre to see whether my prescribed anti-depressant which I use as anti-anxiety had arrived. My medication is Prozac, a typical SSRI. But somehow, it is not commonly used in Villawood. So it has to be specially ordered for me. It has not arrived yet. I went the medical centre with my friend who is supposed to take a similar anti-depressant, Zoloft (sertraline). He has never taken any anti-depressant before he got a prescription of Zoloft only about a fortnight ago. When a nurse gave him a tablet, he said, 'That's not mine.' Then the nurse told him that it was the medication he had been taking for the last fortnight. Then she showed him a package. It was a box of Seroquel!!! I jumped up. Seroquel is a psychotropic used for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. It can be used as augmentation for severe depression. But it is not the first choice drug for a mild depr...
100 days in the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre