My son was prescribed an SSRI when he was a teenager due to depression and anxiety, I believe it was Prozac. He took this for about two weeks and came downstairs and stated, “I feel nothing on this medicine, I feel like I could kill people and not feel anything”.
I took him off that medicine immediately and started to really research SSRI’s and what I found was horrifying!
In addition, no studies have been done on how these meds affect a growing brain. Did you also know that most of the mass shootings we’ve had, most of the perpetrators were on SSRI’S!
I sometimes feel like the FDA is treating people like their experiments. I thankfully found a wonderful therapist after going to five of them who didn’t give a crap about my son and didn’t do anything to help him.
He did behavioral therapy and that worked wonders although it’s a slow process. He’s now 24 and doing great. Thank god I took him off that crap before it was too late!
I'm so glad your son is doing well. Ironic that for years, they've been saying SSRIs can "fix" a chemical imbalance in the brain, when in reality, they chemically alter people?!
My son had a similar issue! He had low D like my wife! Rejected drugs and went the natural route and boosted his Vitamin D intake! All OK until he bought the RNA injections! I pray!😎🙏
I think that's a highly sensible comment.....why are we so quick to pathologise normal human emotions?! I don't doubt that people need help, but the pendulum has swung too far....
I think you're right. Most people have legitimate reasons for being sad or depressed. Instead of medicating people, the focus should be on helping them with their problems and teaching mental techniques for working through strong emotions. I lost a decade of my life to psychiatric drugs. In my experience, they did a lot of harm and no good.
The point is that the FDA are completely in hock to the drug companies. Scientists working for the NIAID/FDA are in receipt of significant amounts of royalty payments from the drug companies. They really don't give a toss. They are totally captured. It's an outrageous situation and people don't seem to get it. They are never going to change. Why would they give up their money and their luxuries? They really don't give a shit.
I am now 3 years into PSSD and I pray my brain returns to normal someday. The drug literally created a chemical imbalance. Everything that made me human was stripped from me without consent.
Maryanne, what tends to happen in these sort of cases? Is there ever any meaningful resolution? Could it lead to a more significant class action against the maker?
The lawsuit should force the FDA to rule on whether it believes there is evidence that SSRIs can, in some cases, cause PSSD and update the label - its important for sufferers that the condition is acknowledged, but may also be important for establishing whether people receive informed consent - and may even have legal consequences.
So 12+ years ago my PCP strongly urged me to start taking Paxil for depression and Xanax for anxiety. I told her I didn't want to but she continued to push it. Same with the Xanax. So I agreed not realizing one is only supposed to take those pills short term. So many years later (14 months ago )I stopped taking Paxil on my own. Not only was it an extremely painful experience but soon after stopping them I began to come out of the fog I had been in for so long and realized how numbed I had been for all the years I took those pills. In that period of time I experienced the death of my mother in a vague unfeeling way and remained cold regarding many things in my life. It was an awful thing to acknowledge. Another doctor recommended I switch to cymbalta for reducing arthritis pain and I agreed not knowing that is another SSRI. I am now going off of that. MDs are dangerous.
I had some of those for awhile. I was trusting of medical authority. I now regard these substances as neurotoxins. I got disgusted after awhile and stopped taking them. Most of the "side effects" went away after a while. But since then I've felt more fatigue and less alertness. Hard to describe.
Wow. I thought, but I’m not sure I thought. After years, around 50, it really destroyed my sex life and very often the feeling of connectedness and the comfort of love. Times I thought I was looney, then my wife, the kids. It is a relief to really know what happened. A lot makes sense now in my later years.
After Covid, it really makes sense…our government, big Pharma, the media, disregard, power, and money.
Until these cretins are sent to prison or face death sentences, nothing will change. It's perfectly fine for these rodents to harm us and we need to return that harshness so they may understand we will not accept their behaviors. Suing or fining them gets them off the hook. That's why they keep doing the same things.
I’m with ya 100%. It’s so infuriating to listen to “halls of justice” tell us they’ll be fined and forced to make pay outs. But that stops nothing when the operation simply switches to a different play to prey on us. I want it all paid in blood. But I’ll settle for lifelong sentences in general population of maximum security state pen. So long as the public gets 24/7 footage to tune in for routine rape and beat downs. That’s justice.
1988. That's when SSRIs hit the market. People have been injured since 1988.😐😐🤨
I personally would be looking at every single FDA personage that has served since 1986- till now, and asking them what was their due diligence done on the approval of these prior?🤔🤔.🤨😤🤐🤐🤦♀️
How many school shootings, suicides, child abuse, divorce, sexual trauma, and accidents may have actually been avoided, if these damn things had not been approved.🤐🤐😭🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️📣📣
My cousin (RIP) was a doctor. She used to go on free trips to sunny places like Scottsdale and Jamaica, paid for by the SSRI companies for prescribing a certain amount of the drugs.
My son was prescribed an SSRI when he was a teenager due to depression and anxiety, I believe it was Prozac. He took this for about two weeks and came downstairs and stated, “I feel nothing on this medicine, I feel like I could kill people and not feel anything”.
I took him off that medicine immediately and started to really research SSRI’s and what I found was horrifying!
In addition, no studies have been done on how these meds affect a growing brain. Did you also know that most of the mass shootings we’ve had, most of the perpetrators were on SSRI’S!
I sometimes feel like the FDA is treating people like their experiments. I thankfully found a wonderful therapist after going to five of them who didn’t give a crap about my son and didn’t do anything to help him.
He did behavioral therapy and that worked wonders although it’s a slow process. He’s now 24 and doing great. Thank god I took him off that crap before it was too late!
I'm so glad your son is doing well. Ironic that for years, they've been saying SSRIs can "fix" a chemical imbalance in the brain, when in reality, they chemically alter people?!
My son had a similar issue! He had low D like my wife! Rejected drugs and went the natural route and boosted his Vitamin D intake! All OK until he bought the RNA injections! I pray!😎🙏
I know I might be crucified for this but I wonder sometimes if we forget it’s alright to be sad sometimes.
I think that's a highly sensible comment.....why are we so quick to pathologise normal human emotions?! I don't doubt that people need help, but the pendulum has swung too far....
I think you're right. Most people have legitimate reasons for being sad or depressed. Instead of medicating people, the focus should be on helping them with their problems and teaching mental techniques for working through strong emotions. I lost a decade of my life to psychiatric drugs. In my experience, they did a lot of harm and no good.
Sorry to hear about your experience - unfortunately, it's far too common.
Very interesting and sad to read the comments.
I departed general practice 20 years ago largely due to an impression that the field had been over-medicalised.
I had developed a scepticism of SSRI's, statins, chronic pain medications, as well as antihypertensives.
Now add to that Covid jabs.
I retrained in sports and exercise medicine where the use of pharmaceuticals is minimal and short term.
A Midwestern Doctor did a recent and excellent Substack article on this.
When you are captive to big Pharma, you do not act until they tell you it is OK! Criminal!
FDA needs to go, along with NIH and CDC. They are hopelessly corrupt.
The point is that the FDA are completely in hock to the drug companies. Scientists working for the NIAID/FDA are in receipt of significant amounts of royalty payments from the drug companies. They really don't give a toss. They are totally captured. It's an outrageous situation and people don't seem to get it. They are never going to change. Why would they give up their money and their luxuries? They really don't give a shit.
I am now 3 years into PSSD and I pray my brain returns to normal someday. The drug literally created a chemical imbalance. Everything that made me human was stripped from me without consent.
Maryanne, what tends to happen in these sort of cases? Is there ever any meaningful resolution? Could it lead to a more significant class action against the maker?
The lawsuit should force the FDA to rule on whether it believes there is evidence that SSRIs can, in some cases, cause PSSD and update the label - its important for sufferers that the condition is acknowledged, but may also be important for establishing whether people receive informed consent - and may even have legal consequences.
So 12+ years ago my PCP strongly urged me to start taking Paxil for depression and Xanax for anxiety. I told her I didn't want to but she continued to push it. Same with the Xanax. So I agreed not realizing one is only supposed to take those pills short term. So many years later (14 months ago )I stopped taking Paxil on my own. Not only was it an extremely painful experience but soon after stopping them I began to come out of the fog I had been in for so long and realized how numbed I had been for all the years I took those pills. In that period of time I experienced the death of my mother in a vague unfeeling way and remained cold regarding many things in my life. It was an awful thing to acknowledge. Another doctor recommended I switch to cymbalta for reducing arthritis pain and I agreed not knowing that is another SSRI. I am now going off of that. MDs are dangerous.
Good luck…. Hope tapering off the medication is not too painful.
“Warning labels”??? Take them off the shelf! Stop prescribing them! Sue the manufacturers!!!
I had some of those for awhile. I was trusting of medical authority. I now regard these substances as neurotoxins. I got disgusted after awhile and stopped taking them. Most of the "side effects" went away after a while. But since then I've felt more fatigue and less alertness. Hard to describe.
Wow. I thought, but I’m not sure I thought. After years, around 50, it really destroyed my sex life and very often the feeling of connectedness and the comfort of love. Times I thought I was looney, then my wife, the kids. It is a relief to really know what happened. A lot makes sense now in my later years.
After Covid, it really makes sense…our government, big Pharma, the media, disregard, power, and money.
Until these cretins are sent to prison or face death sentences, nothing will change. It's perfectly fine for these rodents to harm us and we need to return that harshness so they may understand we will not accept their behaviors. Suing or fining them gets them off the hook. That's why they keep doing the same things.
I’m with ya 100%. It’s so infuriating to listen to “halls of justice” tell us they’ll be fined and forced to make pay outs. But that stops nothing when the operation simply switches to a different play to prey on us. I want it all paid in blood. But I’ll settle for lifelong sentences in general population of maximum security state pen. So long as the public gets 24/7 footage to tune in for routine rape and beat downs. That’s justice.
1988. That's when SSRIs hit the market. People have been injured since 1988.😐😐🤨
I personally would be looking at every single FDA personage that has served since 1986- till now, and asking them what was their due diligence done on the approval of these prior?🤔🤔.🤨😤🤐🤐🤦♀️
How many school shootings, suicides, child abuse, divorce, sexual trauma, and accidents may have actually been avoided, if these damn things had not been approved.🤐🤐😭🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️📣📣
#regulatorycapture #pharmawhores #needtodobetter #enoughalready #wearemany #wearememory #wewillnotforgive #mistakeswereNOTmade #getlocalised
My cousin (RIP) was a doctor. She used to go on free trips to sunny places like Scottsdale and Jamaica, paid for by the SSRI companies for prescribing a certain amount of the drugs.
That is totally inexcusable.
I want to hurt someone for that