BARRYMORE REFUSES TO CONSIDER ANTI-DEPRESSANT MEDICATION

Last updated: Monday, September 11, 2006

BARRYMORE REFUSES TO CONSIDER ANTI-DEPRESSANT MEDICATION

DREW BARRYMORE refuses to take any type of anti-depressant medication because she is terrified it could change her personality - even though she suffers from crippling panic attacks.

DREW BARRYMORE

The CHARLIE'S ANGELS beauty accepts medication helped her father, but she remains convinced the drugs would stifle her emotions and leave her a different person.

She explains, "Every single medical expert says (panic attacks) are not real. So you're like, 'But how come when my throat is closing up, I'm blind with dizziness, I can't catch my breath, and I am hot and faint and want to rip my skin off and am convinced I'm going to die, that's so real to me?'

"I had some specialist recommend a daily drug, but I don't want to do it because I don't want to suppress my emotions. I would never take a pill. I did see that it worked on my own father."

Barrymore reconciled with her father JOHN DREW BARRYMORE, after a long period of estrangement, shortly before his death from cancer in 2004.

She adds, "He was on Zoloft, and he went from acting like an absolute insane maniac to a semi-insane maniac, and it was a great improvement for him, so I really believe in that stuff."

| Monday, September 11, 2006

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