Posted on 02/15/2025 7:28:56 AM PST by BenLurkin
Kennedy has repeatedly railed against what he sees as rampant overprescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly known as SSRIs, which treat depression and anxiety and include medications like Prozac and Zoloft. As with his previous assertions about vaccines, many of his statements about these drugs are not backed by science. In a 2023 livestream on X with Elon Musk, he claimed that “tremendous circumstantial evidence” suggested that people taking antidepressants were more likely to commit school shootings. (Actually, most school shooters were not taking those drugs, evidence shows.) Kennedy has also called people who take SSRIs addicts—and then tried to claim he didn’t during his confirmation hearings.
...The Food and Drug Administration already requires drug manufacturers to include warnings in packaging because of some evidence that SSRIs can cause a temporary increase in suicidal thoughts in pediatric patients...
In a podcast appearance last July, Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis products to “creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country.” He added, “I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need—three or four years if they need it—to learn to get reparented, to reconnect with communities.” The farm residents would grow their own organic food because, he suggested, many of their underlying problems could be “food-related.”
During the confirmation hearings, Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) said Kennedy’s statements about antidepressants “reinforce the stigma that people who experience mental health [conditions]…face every single day.”
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Can’t...it’s a HIPAA violation...
The media is hopelessly ignorant and is being bought and sold under the guide of “journalistically righteous”. No surprise they cannot get or disseminate accurate info.
No antidepressants? How will liberal women survive??-—
Like they used too, lots of cheap wine....
Disagree there. I think it's due to 50 years of positive reinforcement education, in everything from public schooling to modern advertising and mass media.
Next up: aspirin and Tylenol.
I see what you did there.
Isn’t “black dog” a euphemism for depression?
Real “clinical” depression is difficult to watch. I knew someone who had it, and he would lie in bed for a month at a time...barely eat, didn’t wash much either. when asked about how he felt, he would say, “I have grief in my head”, or “I have the blues”. This was back in the days before SSRI’s.
Amitriptyline helped him. Low dose and he never got depressed again.
But yes, antidepressant, if necessary, should be prescribed in appropriate doses and adjusted or stopped if ANY side effects noted.
The explanation for the suicides was that before the antidepressants were given, the patient had suicidal thoughts but was too depressed to do anything. Once they felt less depressed, they had enough gumption to carry out their suicidal desires.
I see no reason for him to waste his time with this. Millions of Americans, myself included need medications like these to help function in life. The government has no business interfering with medications or drugs in general. Only change I’d make is make it all available OTC.
All well and good.
But, what is more important is the drug commercial where everyone is walking away from their jobs, their hobbies, their families and walking as a large mob down a street with no traffic.
Two questions, where the Hell are they going and why?
No more “...there is evidence...” without citing the evidence.
No more anonymous sources.
No more “...it has been reported...’ without checking the original source not just another media outlet quoting another media outlet.
You said it!!!!
I have to disagree here. I’ve known plenty of people this has helped to keep focused. Yes, I would make as easy to get as Ibuprofen. I’m a huge believer in individual liberty, even when it comes to drugs.
How different was the government office dynamics in "Blazing Saddles", one spec of a difference than that of the Biden Office of government? Think about it. Measure each line and scene in the movie.
Thank You for the epiphany.
I was looking for it, but there was an in depth investigation done a few years back. And everyone of the mass shooters was on or “just got off” antidepressants.
From what I have studied and know from personal experiences, your mind goes haywire if you stop taking them or run out once you have been on them for awhile. And this is especially true in younger males for some reason.
Big pharma has known this for years but has covered it up very well. But like someone said above, read the side effects. This reality is explained as side effects. One of the worst side effects is an altered sense of reality and lack of any human emotions or guilt.
Search it, it is all there...
Me too. Where would one go to find negative evidence? and how long would one have to remain in that realm?
I don’t know what kind of damage he can do, but am sure hopeful of the good. Let’s let him move into his office and get his new phone number and computer passwords before we pull the rug out from underneath his feet.
This happens occasionally but it’s a very easy problem to solve. Those SSRIs with shorter half-lives are more likely to cause discontinuation symptoms. The solution is to substitute a longer half-life SSRI to get the patient off the shorter half-life drug. Prozac’s half life is in the range of 36 -48 hours. If your friends are having trouble discontinuing their SSRIs, tell them to see their doctor and have him/her prescribe two weeks worth of Prozac then stop it. The Prozac will taper itself out of the system more slowly due to its extended half life. They won’t have any discontinuation symptoms.
When looking for causes, we should go there. I'm thinking these drugs merely amplify such predispositions into action. Such may be causitive from your perspective, but I don't think it really gets to the root of the problem. I see the predispositions themselves as conditioned behaviors for very serious historical reasons I won't be discussing here. Yet.
I should have qualified my post and apologize. There are some folks who have severe life threatening depression that must be medicated and monitored. I have had moderate depression along with anxiety from time to time, my doc prescribed Lexapro, took it five days and began having electrical shocks in my head. Said no way and quit it immediately. Then I decided to see a psychologist, went for a month or so and finally he asked if I had a thyroid problem and I was on synthroid for years. He recommended an endocrinologist who ran tons of bloodwork, who said you are not depressed you have a rare thyroid condition. He immediately took me off the thyroid medication and within ten days my depression and anxiety resolved.
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