Dhru Purohit

So I'm so excited that you started the clinic, Outro Health.

We'll link to it in the show notes.

People can check it out if they have themselves or a loved one want to go on this journey of getting off antidepressants in the right way.

We're going to get into all that as we continue the conversation.

We're going to talk about the standard approach that's out there just to make people more familiarized, what's recommended.

We're going to talk about some of your techniques and approaches that are there that you followed yourself or that your clinicians at Outra Health follow.

And then we're going to go a little bit further.

But before we do that,

just to make sure we touch on this, because some people are aware, some people are not aware.

For the longest time, when it came to mental health, the idea with these drugs was that, hey, there's a chemical imbalance, and you're going on these various drugs to address that

chemical imbalance.

And you yourself were part of the work suggesting that depression was never really about serotonin.

That was the main chemical that was out there.

So for millions of people that were told that they have a chemical imbalance and that's why they needed these pills, what does it actually mean if that story was never true?

Because many people have gone on these drugs and have actually had their lives dramatically improved.

I've had many friends who, you know,

they themselves, even though they did a lot of things that they thought were part of healthy living, they went on these drugs and they noticed a massive difference.

So what are these drugs doing if they're not fixing a chemical imbalance?

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