At Home With Andrew Solomon: Showing the Demons the Door. Child of a pharmaceutical fortune, Andrew Solomon turned his struggle with depression — he’s now on five medications daily — into what he describes as his big career break by authoring the forthcoming The Noonday Demon: an atlas of depression; the New York Times describes him as “the only serious historian of a sickness that disables more people in the United States than any other.” One FmH reader wrote me several months ago to ask if I knew how many people take Prozac and other related SSRI antidepressants; this article, in passing, provides the answer, a figure of 28 million.