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Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

The Mental Health Crisis (Part I with Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring)

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

The First Digital Inc.

News, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Politics

4.9593 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Antidepressant use has skyrocketed in America. Mike Slater digs into the why behind it all. Are these antidepressants being overprescribed? What can people do about it? Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring joins Mike to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Politics by Faith.

0:03.0

This is an important, important life episode here.

0:09.0

It's called the mental health crisis.

0:12.0

We talk with this really remarkable guest here about SSRIs,

0:17.0

and what are they, and how they were invented and how they were pitched,

0:20.0

but what they really are instead, and what we really need how they were invented and how they were pitched but what they really are instead

0:22.0

and what we really need to do instead and how if someone's on SSRIs how they could get off them

0:27.3

if they want maybe they should let's start with a very brief monologue about why i think this is an

0:32.5

important topic and then we'll talk to this wonderful cast and then this is just part one we'll

0:37.0

describe part two later.

0:45.3

Welcome to our special here on the first TV, the mental health crisis.

0:48.9

We have amazing guests today, so I'm just going to do a very quick introduction.

0:53.0

One of my goals is to introduce the conservative movement,

0:56.4

trying this for a while now,

0:57.8

is to move beyond just the mind.

1:00.1

And I think guns and gun crime is a good example of this.

1:04.0

Let's take there's like a gang murder somewhere, right?

1:06.7

Progressives will blame the guns.

1:08.9

And they blame the guns because progressives are at their heart materialists.

1:12.9

So all that exists is what they can see and touch.

1:16.1

Conservatives combated that and said, no, no, no, no, it's not the gun.

1:19.4

It's the mind.

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