Dr. Ben Rein
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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The other thing is that SSRIs seem to like
shift our like moral judgments about social situations.
So maybe you've heard of this like classic trolley problem where like you can you have a trolley, it's coming on the track and it's going to hit five people.
And if you if you pull a lever, you can redirect the trolley and it'll only hit one person.
Would you pull the lever?
You're killing a person, but you're saving five lives.
And most people say like as horrific as that is, I would do that.
I would pull the lever.
But then there's like a more personalized version of this where it's like
The trolley's coming and there's five people there.
But then in between, there's this really, really big person standing in front of you and you can push them into the tracks to save the five.
And even though it's the same math, people are much less likely to do that because you have to physically push.
I mean, a horrific idea to think about.
It's so much easier to pull a lever.
And basically, when people were taking SSRIs, it like further amplified that disgust at the thought of that.
Like the idea of harming someone became even more disturbing and aversive.
So people seem to become more extroverted and less likely to like hurt others, or at least, you know, they feel more uncomfortable about it.
which would align perfectly with this emerging evidence that like serotonin is very pro-social.
Yeah, realistically speaking,
Down the road, there may be drugs that are specifically for that that are not SSRIs, but they act on serotonin.
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