Mikhaila Peterson

I was like, what do you mean it's legal speed?

How can we be prescribing it to people?

You know, that really melted my brain.

And you've had your own experience with Adderall, right?

What scares you more, kids on stimulants or parents thinking stimulants for kids is harmless?

Yeah.

Talk about that.

You kind of just touched on that.

But the personality loss associated with kids being medicated long term.

You and your dad have both talked about the pains and difficulties with SSRI withdrawal.

Why are so many doctors in denial that SSRI withdrawal is a thing?

You mentioned how doctors sometimes will try to taper people off these drugs in like a month.

And in some cases, they've been on them for years.

Yeah.

pain and it could last the rest of their lives.

And so you have Secretary Kennedy making this announcement that we need to be educating doctors on how to properly taper people off of these drugs.

And then the narrative on X and online in the past week that we're recording this, Secretary Kennedy is trying to take away

SSRIs.

Do you think that there's millions of people who believe that they're mentally ill for life and really they're just chemically dependent?

I'm glad that you talked about your family and your all's experience with this because I went on Glenn Beck's show in the last, I don't know, year or so.