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🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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In this interview, Brooke Siem, who is the author of a memoir on antidepressant withdrawal, May Cause Side Effects, interviews her mother, Dee Barbash, to discuss the circumstances that led to Brooke being prescribed a cocktail of antidepressants at the age of 15. Today, her mother is a therapist who helps her clients taper from psychiatric medications – a profession that she took up after she came to understand the harms that Brooke suffered from having been prescribed these drugs for 15 years.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Madden America Podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice. |
0:11.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Madden America podcast. My name is Brooke Seam, and I am the author of the award-winning memoir on |
0:21.4 | antidepressant withdrawal may cause side effects. Today's interview is a little different because I am |
0:28.0 | here in my kitchen table with my mother who's rolling her eyes at me as I introduce her. |
0:35.4 | And the reason why we wanted to bring her on the show is because so often the world of |
0:43.1 | psychiatric drug withdrawal or over medication, we can hear about parents who are grieving |
0:47.1 | children or we hear about children who are struggling and their parents don't understand |
0:52.6 | what's going on, but we kind of don't spend a lot of time talking about what happens when a parent decides |
0:59.4 | to medicate a child, especially in my case, I was 15, so I had some agency. |
1:03.7 | And we thought it might be an interesting discussion. |
1:07.1 | So, hi, mom. |
1:08.6 | Welcome to the show. |
1:10.5 | Hi, sweetie. |
1:12.0 | We were actually talking earlier about your perspective. |
1:16.6 | And I spent a lot of time talking about my story and how it all felt to me. |
1:23.3 | But let's talk about how it felt to you. |
1:27.0 | So for the audience, what happened was is that my father passed away when I was 15. |
1:31.5 | And within a year, I was on two antidepressants and another four drugs to kind of counter |
1:37.3 | the side effects of the end of the depressive. |
1:38.8 | He saw that that wasn't really clear until later. |
1:41.3 | And from my perspective, it didn't really feel like this was a big deal. |
1:46.5 | We just went to a doctor. It was 2001. We started off at a child psychologist. I didn't get along |
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