Laura Delano: The Dark Truth About Antidepressants, SSRIs, and the Psychiatrists Lying for Profit

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Doctors told a teenage Laura Delano she had something they called bipolar disorder, and then proceeded to make her legitimately crazy with psych drugs. She’s one of the few who recovered. (00:00) Introduction (01:20) Why Is the New York Times Mad at Delano for Getting off Antidepressants? (15:32) The Major Problem With Psychiatry Diagnoses (34:43) How Many Americans Are on Psychiatric Drugs? (55:00) The Drugs That Kill Your Life-Force Paid partnerships with: ExpressVPN: Go to https://ExpressVPN.com/Tucker and find out how you can get 4 months of ExpressVPN free! PureTalk: Go to https://PureTalk.com/Tucker to make the switch Policygenius: Head to at https://Policygenius.com/Tucker to see how much you could save Laura Delano is an author, speaker, and consultant, and the founder of Inner Compass Initiative, a nonprofit organization that helps people make more informed choices about taking and safely tapering off psychiatric drugs. She is a leading voice in the international movement of people who’ve left behind the medicalized, professionalized mental health industry to build something different. Laura has worked as an advocate within and beyond the mental health system, and has spent the past 13 years working with individuals and families around the world who are seeking guidance and support for psychiatric drug withdrawal. Her book, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance, was published in March 2025. Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance: https://unshrunkthebook.com Laura’s website: https://www.lauradelano.com Inner Compass Initiative: https://www.theinnercompass.org Laura on X: https://x.com/LauraDelano Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	If you're being told, you know, you have a chemical imbalance, Tucker. Here's some Prozac.
0:34.3	It's going to help adjust the chemicals. That's a lie. If something's an imbalance, what's balance?
0:39.1	Is there any science behind that at all?
0:41.4	No.
0:43.4	It has never been proven.
0:46.0	Most people believe that mental illness, you know, that depression, all these things,
0:50.7	are caused by chemical imbalances.
0:52.3	66 million Americans total on these.
0:54.2	According to the CDC in 2022, so those numbers could well be higher.
0:58.2	That's craziness.
0:59.9	There's this condition called PSSD, post-SSRI sexual dysfunction.
1:04.8	Oh, come on.
1:05.5	There's a whole movement.
1:07.2	They're incredibly well organized on X, doing really important public awareness work around
1:11.9	how many people either never regain sexual function when they come off.
1:16.1	What? Some people haven't regained it for years. So they're just dead? Yep. Okay. Really? And no one's
1:24.8	gone to jail for this? So I read this piece in the New York Times about you that's actually kind of hostile.
1:51.1	And the story seems to be that you were on psych meds for a lot of your young life and then you got off them.
1:57.3	And that's bad.
1:59.7	That's bad.
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