SSRIs and School Shootings, FDA Corruption, and Why Everyone on Anti-Depressants Is Totally Unhappy
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How widespread are SSRIs and antidepressants in the United States?
I think this is one of those topics that um If people understood the the scale. of the problem and the severity that we would be talking about this every day, along with, you know, immigration and foreign policy, uh, this is uh in my view, one of the one of the most important things going on right now. Give us a sense of how widespread the use. Let's just let's just start with SSRIs, antidepressants. Um, how widespread is their use in the United States?
Uh about fourteen percent of the population. Total population. Of the total population is currently taking an antidepressant medication. Currently. Currently, yes. Yeah. And that was that's actually as of twenty fourteen. The numbers have gone up uh since COVID. So I would say it's probably between fifteen to twenty percent of the population. is currently on those drugs. Are taking antidepressants on a daily basis.
So that's I mean, compared to my childhood or even twenty five years ago, that's a massive increase.
It's an enormous increase. It's it's likely, you know, last statistics I looked at, I think it's about a five hundred percent increase from where things were in in the nineties, in the early nineties. Has America's collective mental health improved? No, there's actually more suicides, there's more disability from mental health uh problems and teen teen suicide is higher as well.
Okay. So if there's been a five hundred percent thereabouts increase in the use of these drugs, but more people are killing themselves and the drugs are prescribed in order to Make you not kill yourself. then that suggests that like we're getting the opposite. Of the intended effect.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, big time. Um, where you know, there's more psychiatric prescribers now, there's more drug, you know, drug prescribing, and the outcomes are actually getting worse. It's what we're doing is not working on a national level. I'm
just gonna skip ahead to my opinion and then I'm gonna pull back. But that suggests that we should ban the drugs and imprison the people selling them. That's my personal view. Um But I'll you know, you're the psychiatrist. Um so what affect and I will try to r reduce my emotional outburst just to that. Um but it is it's It's so shocking, uh, when you know the details. Um Where do these drugs come from? What are they exactly? What is an SSRI? Who invented them? What do they do?
So I mean SSRIs are uh kind of the uh latest iteration of antidepressants. They've been out since the fifties, but Prozac really changed history when when it came out in nineteen eighty seven. So this is was a drug that was designed to um modulate the serotonin system. This is by uh blocking serotonin reuptake. And so what that does is it increases the amount of uh serotonin between the neurons and it actually has a drug effect. It it will make people numb or emotionally constricted. And so that's that's How those drugs are working.
I was I remember w the rollout for Prozac Um, I think it was on the cover of Time or Newsweek or one of the then popular newsweeklies in the United States, and it was hailed as a wonder drug that was going to fix America's psychiatric problems.
Mm-hmm.
Um and it didn't. But it was also described as a drug that helped, as I recall, that helped regulate And I'm quoting chemical imbalances in the brain. It was not described as something that would numb you.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, it's uh it's it's essentially uh just a a a story that was sold. The the chemical imbalance myth was a story that was sold to doctors and patients to make them feel better about taking drugs uh for their mood. Because I think intuitively many people, you know, when you say, Hey, you know, I'm unhappy, I'm anxious, I'm depressed. If you went to that person and said, Hey, do you want to m take a drug that's going to mask those symptoms? Intuitively people would say, No, you know, I'd I'd rather get to the root cause of that, you know, sweeping things under the rug usually doesn't work that well.
Yes.
Um, but when you craft a narrative about these drugs uh fixing a chemical imbalance like say like a type one diabetic who doesn't have enough insulin, you give them insulin and it kind of sort of like a magic bullet kind of
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
How widespread are SSRIs and antidepressants in the United States?
0:00–10:22
2
What is the “chemical imbalance” myth and how did it become the dominant narrative?
10:22–31:13
3
How does pharmaceutical funding influence the FDA’s drug‑approval process?
31:13–55:23
4
What extreme side effects have patients reported from SSRIs and antipsychotics?
55:23–1:09:45
5
How have legal cases highlighted the dangers of these medications and their link to violent behavior?
1:09:45–1:26:00
6
Why are relapse‑prevention studies considered flawed and how does this shape indefinite prescribing?
1:26:00–1:43:06
7
What alternative strategies (tapering, lifestyle changes, mental‑health screening, AI therapy) are suggested for people struggling with psychiatric drugs?
1:43:06–1:54:04
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