Woman ‘suicidal’ after taking same antidepressants as Thomas Kingston issues warning over side effects
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Coroner and MPs raise concerns as almost 200 alerts made in decade to regulator over deaths linked to drugs. A woman who said she has become severely suicidal during a year of being prescribed the same antidepressants as royal family member Thomas Kingston has issued a warning over their side effects.
![[Wang pictured smiling two years ago, before she was prescribed the antidepressants]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/08/12/Lingling-Wang-2.jpg)
Lingling Wang, 48, told The Independent she felt she was not made adequately aware of the potential effects of taking antidepressants before she was prescribed them for insomnia and mild anxiety last January. A year later, the 48-year-old, who previously worked as a senior consultant for a bank, said: “My life is finished – I lost my job, almost all my friends, I’m bedridden, I have to rely on my family to feed me.”.
![[Thomas Kingston and Lady Gabriella Windsor after their wedding at St George’s Chapel in Windsor in 2019]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/03/02/e40015cf3a6ab7d55ec8db75fcea20cfY29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzMzMjI1NTE5-2.42963551.jpg)
She is speaking about her ordeal as a coroner issued a warning about the effects of medication used to treat depression after ruling last month that Kingston, the husband of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent’s daughter Lady Gabriella Kingston, fatally shot himself following an adverse effect to antidepressants.
![[The most recent data shows 5.2 million patients were prescribed SSRIs in 2021, up from 4.2 million in 2015-2016]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/10/14/10/drug.jpg)
Labour MP for Stroud Dr Simon Opher told The Independent he believed antidepressants are “overprescribed” in the UK, raising concerns over serious side effects and difficulties patients face coming off the medications. Data analysis by this newspaper found almost 200 alerts in a decade were made to the UK’s medicines regulator over deaths linked to citalopram and sertraline – both common antidepressants that were prescribed to Ms Wang and Kingston.
