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If you were lucky enough to have watched the confirmation hearings for the man who would become Health and Human Services Secretary, RFK Jr., you may recall this banger.

I probably did say that.

Or the claims about vaccines and autism.

But Kennedy was also confronted by Senator Tina Smith.

This is personal for me.

When I was a young woman and I was struggling with depression, thankfully, I had the resources to help me get through it, including...

A new generation of SSRI uptake re-inhibitors, which helped to clear my mind.

Who pushed him on past remarks where he expressed suspicion about SSRIs.

But that would be an issue between them and their physicians and not for the future head of HSRI.

Sarah Todd is a health reporter at Stat News, and so she has been covering all of this.

Sarah, whether to take antidepressants is a personal decision.

But in 2025, what we've seen is this increasingly politicized language around them.

Do you feel like it's something new that SSRIs are kind of a political football?

It's a good question.