Brooke Siem
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410 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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It's not functional.
That's not the point.
The point is to focus on something else, to force your body and brain to create new associations, new connections, build new pathways.
And if it's something in service, that's even even better.
And so I think that, you know, you said in your one of your pre interview emails to me that finding something that creates distance from the symptoms uh gives you another role than the sick person.
And that to me is such a huge part of this process.
No, it I feel like it can work until it doesn't.
Almost everyone I talk to
I I mean, maybe probably a hundred percent of the people I've talked to have all had a very significant reason to start taking an antidepressant.
Like, something happened and
When you look around and you kinda say to yourself, Okay, well, the reality is that something happens to everybody.
None of us get through this without some major things.
And then after th this thirty, forty year experiment of medicating people that I don't particularly think it's working well, maybe we need to try a different strategy.
Also, when we hear all these withdrawal stories, I mean, it's difficult, at least for me, I can't say it was worth it.
Like I would have done better just dealing with the grief of the death of my father than
withdrawal.
Like I know that now because I've had to go through grief in a variety of different ways.
It's brutal, but it's wasn't withdrawal.
And so um I hope that stories like yours can
Create a ripple effect and somebody will
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