Betsy McKay

start taking these medications and then, you know, for good reason, feel they continue to need them and they just stay on them and doctors continue to prescribe them.

That's terrifying.

Usually they're told minimal side effects.

Oh, boy.

Yeah.

So the side effects and the problems that we've documented are really from lived real world experience.

And one of the problems is that they're not being studied enough.

After our story about benzos ran, I mean, we had got a deluge of responses from readers.

And many, many, many of the people who wrote in said, I've had the same experience with antidepressants.

That's next.

Prozac was introduced in 1987, and it was a revolution.

Prozac Nation and so forth.

Then came other popular antidepressants, like Zoloft and Lexapro.

And prescriptions for benzodiazepines have been going down.

There's a lot more concern about them now, but prescriptions for antidepressants are going up.

Betsy, is that the same for antidepressants?

Yeah, it's very interesting.

I mean, again, it's a similar picture to benzos.

Most antidepressants have not been studied for long.

The average study was about eight weeks long, but the average time...