Ivan Balabanov

I've done research. We can create outcomes. But you can still find some interesting things. So this one... 2019, still fairly recent. Antidepressant treatment, not depression, leads to reduction in behavioral and neural responses to pain empathy. It was a very, very interesting study what they did. They basically had people on medication observe other people feeling pain.

I've done research. We can create outcomes. But you can still find some interesting things. So this one... 2019, still fairly recent. Antidepressant treatment, not depression, leads to reduction in behavioral and neural responses to pain empathy. It was a very, very interesting study what they did. They basically had people on medication observe other people feeling pain.

discomfort from different levels, being physical, being mental, being whatever. And it clearly showed they use everything that you would want to do to have correct study, three groups and so on. And it did show that it reduces empathy and emotional responses. When you talk to people,

discomfort from different levels, being physical, being mental, being whatever. And it clearly showed they use everything that you would want to do to have correct study, three groups and so on. And it did show that it reduces empathy and emotional responses. When you talk to people,

Like when you talk to, I will tell you, people that have come off or people that are still a little bit capable to explain what is going on. Let me try to kind of paint a picture from one of the conversations that doctor that I'm having tomorrow. His name is Dr. Joseph. But anyway, he basically, like imagine losing all of your positive emotions. No sadness, but like all emotions.

Like when you talk to, I will tell you, people that have come off or people that are still a little bit capable to explain what is going on. Let me try to kind of paint a picture from one of the conversations that doctor that I'm having tomorrow. His name is Dr. Joseph. But anyway, he basically, like imagine losing all of your positive emotions. No sadness, but like all emotions.

Imagine hugging your best friend or a family member and feeling nothing. Imagine hearing your favorite song that one that used to give you the goosebumps and now it's just background noise. Imagine drinking alcohol, even taking drugs, doing nothing you used to feel something from.

Imagine hugging your best friend or a family member and feeling nothing. Imagine hearing your favorite song that one that used to give you the goosebumps and now it's just background noise. Imagine drinking alcohol, even taking drugs, doing nothing you used to feel something from.

Now, imagine that emptiness is permanent, not because you're broken, but because a drug rewired your developing brain during puberty. And now your body doesn't know how to find its way back. This isn't just a sexual side effect because it's well-known side effect, right? But... This kind of trying to minimize the problem. This is an emotional devastation.

Now, imagine that emptiness is permanent, not because you're broken, but because a drug rewired your developing brain during puberty. And now your body doesn't know how to find its way back. This isn't just a sexual side effect because it's well-known side effect, right? But... This kind of trying to minimize the problem. This is an emotional devastation.

It's cognitive, too, because people cannot think clearly anymore. They cannot work. They cannot connect. They're like spectators in their own lives. If this is what this drug can do to humans who are fully aware and able to talk about what's happening, What the hell do we think happens to the dogs who are being under this kind of medications? Are they safe and effective?

It's cognitive, too, because people cannot think clearly anymore. They cannot work. They cannot connect. They're like spectators in their own lives. If this is what this drug can do to humans who are fully aware and able to talk about what's happening, What the hell do we think happens to the dogs who are being under this kind of medications? Are they safe and effective?

Oh, yeah, go ahead. Funding is definitely not an issue. I know it's an issue in your... But in the field of human psychiatry, big pharma is flooding. I mean, it's pouring. Funding is not an issue. It's actually funding is what most likely created the overload.

Oh, yeah, go ahead. Funding is definitely not an issue. I know it's an issue in your... But in the field of human psychiatry, big pharma is flooding. I mean, it's pouring. Funding is not an issue. It's actually funding is what most likely created the overload.

Interesting.

Interesting.

You know, I'm going to chase you down to get this from you, right?

You know, I'm going to chase you down to get this from you, right?

Yeah, that's where I want to challenge you again with the we do no harm. I can't because It's always kind of presented more on the safe and effective side, and there is serious, serious side effects. But before we get deeper in those, we can agree that it would reduce arousal, but reducing arousal, it's not the same as restoring joy or something.

Yeah, that's where I want to challenge you again with the we do no harm. I can't because It's always kind of presented more on the safe and effective side, and there is serious, serious side effects. But before we get deeper in those, we can agree that it would reduce arousal, but reducing arousal, it's not the same as restoring joy or something.