Meg Jay

About 15% of Americans experience withdrawal symptoms, and that can be a really wide range, some at the not so severe scale, like a headache.

And some more concerning, everything from insomnia to, you know, very serious suicidal ideation.

That would be less common, but it can happen.

All right.

So I imagine if you're a person who's come off of SSRIs and you've had those real difficulties, it might feel like I was addicted, even though they don't meet the dictionary definition of addiction.

What else has RFK Jr.

said about SSRIs?

Another comment that he's made is suggesting that they're linked in some way to mass shootings.

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And that's one where the evidence is very clear that this isn't true.

I found one paper that said that over the past 30 years, they looked at all the mass shootings in the U.S., just 4% of the perpetrators had been on antidepressants at any point in their lives.

There's really no evidence that they're linked to violence.

All right.

And then this summer, the FDA raised questions about taking SSRIs during pregnancy.

The FDA's parent agency, of course, is Health and Human Services.

What are the concerns there?

So the concern there is really about the potential effects on the babies from taking antidepressants.

And this is a complicated issue.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says that SSRIs are safe during pregnancy.