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Change Your Brain Every Day

Taking Antidepressants (SSRIs): Pros & Cons

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For some people, the choice to take antidepressants leads to a happier, healthier quality of life. For others, it only makes things worse. Therefore it's crucial to understand the benefits and drawbacks of choosing this route of treatment. In the first episode of a series on antidepressants, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen arm you with the information you need to decide if antidepressants are the right choice for you or your loved one.

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse.

0:07.1

Stay with us to learn how you can change your brain for the better every day.

0:15.4

This is going to be depression week and things you can do and maybe some things you shouldn't do.

0:25.8

Depression is the number one illness, so not just mental illness, it is the number one most

0:34.5

expensive illness worldwide and seems to be increasing despite the fact that the use of antidepressants has skyrocketed.

0:48.1

It's quadrupled since 1987 when Prozac was first released. So there seems to be a bit of a disconnection between the

0:59.4

medications can just solve. Right. Everything. But you have a review. We haven't read a review in a

1:05.5

while. This says, I really appreciate this podcast on brain health. Years ago, I was misdiagnosed as bipolar,

1:12.0

and it seems like ever since then, I'm trying hard through a healthy lifestyle to live optimally.

1:17.3

This is a great short but thorough podcast, and you always walk away with at least one tip for the day to be mentally or physically healthy.

1:25.5

I wish insurance covered brain scans because it would be awfully useful for everybody to see

1:30.2

why we are the way we are from Ocean Bliss 770.

1:34.8

Don't don't doesn't insurance cover more now?

1:36.7

Well we actually did a study of the patients who came to A.

1:40.4

in clinics and of the people that submitted it to insurance, 60% of them got some reimbursement.

1:48.8

That imaging is just so important. But thank you for the review. And if you leave a review

1:57.9

at Brain Warriors Way Podcast.com will we'll actually enter you into a raffle

2:04.1

to win a signed copy of one of Tanna's cookbooks. We also want you, you know, what's the one

2:10.6

thing you're going to learn from this podcast, posted on any of your social media sites and hashtag

2:16.2

Brain Warriors Way podcast.

2:18.3

Yep.

2:19.3

So yeah, let's talk about depression.

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