Laura Delano
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735 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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How much testing has been done for SSRIs with long-term use?
The average length of a trial is about six to eight weeks that tests the safety and efficacy.
One of the Ambien trials that the drug was approved on the basis of was one night.
Whatever the drug class is, whether it's SSRI, SNRI, MAOI, tricyclic, antipsychotic, benzodiazepine, Z drug, stimulant, they are all approved on the basis of short-term trials.
It is literally an experiment to take these drugs long-term.
Angry teenage girls aren't meant to be sitting in front of their screens in a dark room on the internet.
They're meant to be experimenting with fashion and painting and music.
They're meant to be channeling their emotions into art.
Yeah, it's a controversial statement to make.
And I think it's a combination of long-term medication adverse effects and people trying—
time after time to come off their medications and feeling horrible, leading them to go back on.
I think it's a multifaceted source that's behind this crisis, but it's not what we've been told.
And what I realized for myself is that the treatment itself might be fueling what we're thinking of as a mental health crisis.
Drug withdrawal symptoms can mimic the symptoms of the diagnoses in the DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and also long-term adverse effects can as well.
So we're in this situation where our culture has this lens over our eyes where we see people who are told they have chronic
You know, mental health conditions month after month, year after year, not getting better or even getting worse.
And we're all trained to see that as their illness is progressing.
And what I found in my own experience and now having been doing this work for 15 years, have heard from thousands and thousands of other people is that.
It was actually the long-term polypharmacy regimen that we were on that was fueling what we were being told was our own illness inside of our brains.
You know, you have a chemical imbalance and it's unfortunate this treatment isn't helping.
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